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Vaccine passport reportedly coming up in Uruguay soon 2021-04-22 05:39:00 Uruguay's Tourism Minister Germán Cardoso Wednesday raised again the issue of vaccination certificates for foreign tr

LATAM to resume Falkland Island routes Oct. 1, 2021-04-21 19:53:00 Further to the announcement made on 1 February, the Falkland Islands Government can confirm that commercial air links with bo

Anvisa asks STF for more time to decide 2021-04-21 05:35:00 While Argentina has already started trials to produce the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19, Brazil’s National

Thunberg donates € 120,000 to WHO, slams Bolsonaro 2021-04-21 05:10:00 Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has donated € 120,000 to the World's Health Organization (WHO) to "buy a

France to impose € 1,500 fine to South 2021-04-20 13:29:00 A ten-day mandatory quarantine for travellers arriving into France from South America, namely from Brazil, Argentina, Chile a

Brazil's Anvisa green-lights studies of new Chinese covid-19 2021-04-20 06:45:00 Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has given the green light to clinical trials on volunteers of a potent

Uruguay leads freedom of press in South America; 2021-04-20 06:30:00 With no South American country among the top 12, the Non-Government Organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF - the acronym

Brazil's GDP on track to better results than 2021-04-19 17:41:00 Brazil's Economic Activity Index (IBC-Br), released by the Central Bank and believed to be an omen of the country's Gross D

Brazil: Supreme Court upholds ruling allowing Lula to 2021-04-16 05:59:00 Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's convictions were annulled Thursday by the country's Supreme C

Brazil: Senate to investigate Bolsonaro's handling of the 2021-04-14 11:36:00 Brazil's Senate Tuesday created a Parliamentary Investigation Commission (CPI) to evaluate President's Jair Bolsonaro's ha

To curb spread of Manaus coronavirus strain, France 2021-04-13 12:59:00 France's government has banned all flights to/from Brazil effective following the increase of covid-19 cases of the Manaus s

Brazil STF Justice Weber halts Bolsonaro's easing on 2021-04-13 04:29:00 Justice Rosa Weber of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF), Monday issued a provisional preemptive injunction against parts

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Bolivian President repeals interim government decree on GMOs 2021-04-22 17:11:34RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, repealed this Thursday a law of the Transitional Administration that authorized te

Argentina’s economy declined by 1% monthly in February 2021-04-22 16:58:15RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The economic activity in Argentina experienced last February a 1% decline compared to last January, thus breaking the upward

The accidental protagonist: Brazil at the heart of 2021-04-22 16:31:06RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As the Climate Leaders' Summit starts on Thursday, April 22nd, many eyes are on Brazil. Not always for the best of reasons,

Peruvians are playing for their future between two 2021-04-22 16:25:24RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The passage to the second presidential round of the ultra-left professor Pedro Castillo and the authoritarian right-wing Keik

Former Bogotá mayor, Gustavo Petro, at the head 2021-04-22 16:03:06RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The leader of the leftist movement Colombia Humana, Gustavo Petro, leads the polls with 38.3% voting intention, followed by t

Cuba reports new record number of daily covid 2021-04-22 15:45:01RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cuba once again surpassed the absolute maximum number of daily cases of covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic by confi

Deforestation in the Amazon, an environmental epidemic in 2021-04-22 13:24:30RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the shadow of the covid-19 crisis, the Amazon is silently suffering one of its worst moments in the face of its particular

Unemployment in Mexico dropped to 3.9 % in 2021-04-22 13:10:02RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mexico's unemployment rate stood at 3.9 % of the economically active population (EAP) in March 2021, down from 4.4 % in Febr

Quibdó, a Colombian city gripped by urban violence 2021-04-22 12:58:37RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A shootout last Sunday left several gunshot wounds in the intensive care ward of the main hospital in Quibdó, a

Drug traffickers don’t retire: the return of “Techo 2021-04-22 12:43:29By Gustavo Sierra RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mafia law does not provide for voluntary retirement. The vast majority of capos, lieutenants and hitmen die

Peru requests for the second time extradition of 2021-04-22 08:11:36RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Peruvian government approved this Wednesday to request for the second time the extradition of former president Alejandro

Brazil industrial confidence kicks off Q2 at eight-month 2021-04-22 07:52:11RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian industrial confidence fell in April for a fourth month to its lowest since August, a survey showed on Thursday, dep

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Brazil’s COVID-19 Crisis Spirals Out Of Control: ‘An 2021-03-26 11:59:56More than 300,000 Brazilians have died from the coronavirus, and far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s denial of the crisis is putting the whole