El Salvador: Broad Powers Limit Accountability
No Answers on Covid-19 Test Results, Quarantine, Government Spending WASHINGTON – The government of El Salvador’s decision to suspend public information requests, including for Covid-19…
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Chile extends total quarantine to 50 communes after 192 new deaths
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Chilean Health Minister Jaime Mañalich has announced the government’s decision to add new communes to the total quarantine…
COVID-19 arrests for religious gatherings in Chile
SANTIAGO – The ADF International has filed a request for emergency cautionary measures with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights regarding the arrest and…
Brazil central bank survey shows economy forecasted to contract 6.5% this year
SAO PAULO – The outlook for Brazil’s economy deteriorated for a 17th week in a row, with Latin America’s largest economy now expected to shrink…
Maduro restricts return of Venezuelan migrants
CARACAS – The Nicolás Maduro government blames migrants for the increase in the spread of the coronavirus in Venezuela while hundreds of these emigrants, pushed…
Mónica Zalaquett takes oath as Chile’s new Women & Gender Equality minister
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera on Tuesday administered oath to the country’s new Minister for Women and Gender Equality, Mónica Zalaquett. The 58-year-old former…
Chile’s Women minister resigns after 34 days in office
SANTIAGO – Macarena Santelices has stepped down as Chile’s Minister of Women and Gender Equality, after just over a month in office. “The day it…
UN Chiefs Silenced by Big Powers with Vetoes
Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS – The massive protests in more than 120 US cities over racial injustice and police brutality went global last week– amidst…
Chile surpasses 142,000 cases of coronavirus, records 2,283 deaths
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Chile’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday said that 3,913 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the last…
La Liga returns with virtual fans and videogame crowd noise
MADRID – La Liga will use virtual images of stands in television broadcasts with added ‘fan audio’, produced by the makers of the FIFA video…