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1 month ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Elizabeth Bratton |Michael Krumholtz |Sebastián Mora |Tamara Davison
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister has said that the recently inaugurated government will recognize neither Nicolás Maduro nor Edmundo González Urrutia – an opposition politician who is widely believed to have won the country’s July 2024 elections – as the president of Venezuela.
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1 month ago | 
argentinareports.com | Facundo Falduto |Miguel Goyeneche |Michael Krumholtz |politics. He
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Javier Milei made international headlines in recent weeks, but not in a way he may have wanted. The president of Argentina is under investigation in both his country and the United States for the $Libra cryptocurrency scandal, a “rug pull” that caused up to $300 million in losses for investors.
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1 month ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Salomé Beyer Vélez |Michael Krumholtz
Cúcuta, a northeastern Colombian city on the border with Venezuela, woke up to five explosions on February 20. The National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s largest active rebel insurgency, days later claimed responsibility for the attacks. “In response to the counterinsurgency plan to exterminate the ELN… we inform the public of this report of the war carried out in the cities and metropolitan areas of Colombia,” the ELN claimed on February 24 via Antorcha Estéreo, the group’s radio station.
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2 months ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Salomé Beyer Vélez |Michael Krumholtz
Tibú, Colombia – On January 16, violence erupted in Colombia’s northeastern Catatumbo region after a fragile truce between rival armed groups collapsed. The National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Frente 33, a dissident group of the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), are engaged in open combat in the region. The government is negotiating a peace settlement with the Frente 33, but ended talks with the ELN, blaming it for starting the conflict in January.
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2 months ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Elizabeth Bratton |Michael Krumholtz |Sophie Foggin
Uruguay’s incoming Minister and Vice Minister of Tourism, Pablo Menoni and Ana Laura Caram, have offered their perspective on legalizing cannabis tourism in the country. On January 17, Menoni was asked at a press conference about the possibility of developing cannabis tourism in Uruguay, once the transfer of power to the recently elected left-wing Broad Front (Frente Amplio) coalition has been completed.
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2 months ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Sophie Foggin |Michael Krumholtz |Salomé Beyer Vélez
Medellín, Colombia — After years of demands to search for those forcibly disappeared in Medellin’s La Escombrera landfill, Colombia’s transitional justice body, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), has officially announced it is the site of a mass grave. With four bodies found so far, and many more thought to be buried at the site in the city’s western Comuna 13 district, the relatives of victims of state-sanctioned disappearances and killings move one step closer to justice.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Michael Krumholtz |Patrick Edwards
Several Iranian citizens were denied entry into Colombia in recent days after allegedly using false or suspicious identification, Colombian migration officials told newspaper El Tiempo. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources within Colombia Migration, wrote that there were multiple incidents at different entry points to the country, including Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport as well as in Cúcuta, a city on the border with Venezuela.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
latinamericareports.com | Isabella Lapadula |Sophie Foggin |Michael Krumholtz
Nicolás Maduro on Friday was sworn in for a third term in office, which will extend his repressive tenure until 2031. After a speedy ceremony at Venezuela’s National Assembly, Maduro began another six-year term in office, despite failing to publish precinct-level electoral results to prove his victory in the July 2024 elections.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
latinamericareports.com | Elizabeth Bratton |Michael Krumholtz
Manfred Reyes Villa, the mayor of the central city of Cochabamba, has announced that he will be running in Bolivia’s 2025 presidential elections. Reyes Villa made the announcement on January 5, at an event which took place in the Félix Capriles Stadium in the city. According to El popular, he entered the stadium in a tractor and drove around the athletics track, while thousands of fans chanted messages of support for the presidential candidate.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
latinamericareports.com | Elizabeth Bratton |Michael Krumholtz
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November 25, 2024
Yamandú Orsi, of the left-wing Broad Front (Frente Amplio) coalition, will become the next Uruguayan president after emerging victorious in the second voting round on Sunday. According to Reuters, Orsi secured 49.81% of the vote, compared to conservative Álvaro Delgado, of the ruling National Party (Partido Nacional), who achieved 45.90%.
