QUITO – A bus crash in Ecuador’s Andes mountains left 11 people dead, authorities said Saturday, bringing the country’s death toll from such accidents to 46 in the past three weeks. The bus was traveling […]
SANTIAGO – During a surveillance patrol, the Chilean Navy captured the fourteenth foreign vessel in the early hours of Friday morning, which was fishing in waters belonging to the Exclusive Economic Zone of the South […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Health Ministry has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to help install a monitoring system that identifies and gauges industrial emissions in the heavily contaminated Quintero and Puchuncaví regions. “We are prepared […]
SANTIAGO – The number of sexual abuse cases, involving Chilean church officials, has tripled since July with 119 open investigations underway in the Prosecutor’s Office. The Sexual Crimes Unit of the country’s Prosecutor’s Office has […]
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s new parliament ushers in a new left-wing political era following the 1st July presidential election in which Andres Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO for his initials, won the majority […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s top electoral court has prohibited that the jailed former president Lula Inácio da Silva stand for the upcoming 7th October presidential elections over corruption charges leveled against him. Six judges voted against […]
MANAGUA – The government of Nicaragua’s embattled President Daniel Ortega has ordered the expulsion of a United Nations human rights team. Two days after the U.N. published a critical report on human rights in the […]
SANTIAGO – The LATAM Airlines Group has signed an agreement to have 80% of its energy consumption in Chile powered by renewable projects of Madrid-based Acciona from September this year, the Spanish company said in […]
SANTIAGO – A large fire started in a stockpile of disused tires of the “Famaprica” Company, located in the sector of Rinconada, in the municipality of Maipú. It was estimated that at least 3,000 tires […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s population reached 208,494,900 people as of July 1, the country’s statistics agency IBGE announced yesterday. The figure increased 0.82 percent compared to 2017. The South American country is estimated to […]
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