News of leader

Peru president announces PM will step down, triggering resignation of Cabinet

06-10-2021 21:10 President Pedro Castillo announced on October 6 the resignation of his prime minister and his entire cabinet, two months after taking office, in a surprise message to Peru broadcast on state television.

COURTS, CRIME & SECURITY

Rosario drug gang leader given 22-year jail term in seventh trial

01-10-2021 20:57 Ariel Máximo ’Guille’ Cantero, head of Los Monos drug gang, convicted for instigating seven attacks on judicial buildings, homes of prosecutors and judges.

GERMAN ELECTIONS

Scrum for chancellery as SPD takes lead in post-Merkel election

26-09-2021 21:26 Epochal election ushers in the end of 16 years in power for Merkel, and also thrusts Germany, a byword for stability, into a new period of political uncertainty.

BLOOMBERG

IMF chief risks weakened authority after China-linked probe

17-09-2021 15:03 Kristalina Georgieva risks seeing her authority as head of the International Monetary Fund undermined, after being accused of influencing a report in China’s favour when she worked at the World Bank.

New era in Peru

Peruvian Congress approves Castillo's cabinet after lengthy debate

29-08-2021 10:38 Having survived the first big test of his presidency, 51-year-old former rural schoolteacher Pedro Castillo thanks Congress on Twitter after his Cabinet wins approval from lawmakers.

Political crisis in Venezuela

Venezuela frees key opposition leader accused of treason, terrorism

16-08-2021 10:17 Key Venezuelan opposition figure released just days after the start of new talks between the opposition and government.

Crisis in Venezuela

Venezuela election negotiations set to begin next week in Mexico

04-08-2021 15:02 Officials from the Venezuelan government and opposition are expected to meet next week in Mexico City to kick off negotiations aimed at ending a political stand-off ahead of regional elections in November.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mercedes 'Porota' Meroño, vice-president of Madres de Plaza de Mayo, dies at 95

22-04-2021 10:32 Mercedes 'Porota' Colás de Meroño, the vice-president of the Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, passed away at the age of 95 in Villa Devoto.

RUSSIA

Doctors denied access to 'very weak' opposition Russian leader Navalny

20-04-2021 11:50 Alexei Navalny's doctors were again denied access Tuesday to the jailed Kremlin critic, as lawyers for the hunger-striking opposition figure said he was "very weak."

An Indian perspective

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-Covid world

13-04-2021 13:47 Fashioning a robust response to the Covid-19 challenge is set to dominate global diplomacy in 2021.

by Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

BLOOMBERG

Bolsonaro government’s message to Biden: Trumpism lives on in Brazil

16-01-2021 04:04 Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo wants Joe Biden to know that it’s not about to reverse course in response to the change of US leadership.

BLOOMBERG

Merkel’s party must finally settle on a new leader and is torn

11-01-2021 08:19 Angela Merkel has been a pillar of stability for Germany and the western world for the better part of two decades, but the party that kept her in charge of Europe’s biggest economy is grappling with the power vacuum she’s leaving behind.

Coronavirus pandemic

City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta tests positive for Covid-19

06-01-2021 18:00 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta confirms in tweet that he has tested positive for Covid-19.

Ex-Uruguay president

Uruguay in mourning as ex-president Tabaré Vázquez dies aged 80

06-12-2020 09:17 Family confirms in statement that left-wing leader, who ruled Uruguay twice from 2005-2010 and 2015-2020, has succumbed to lung cancer.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Trump’s biggest orphan

09-11-2020 17:54 Bolsonaro is now Trump’s most prominent orphan in the Americas, and his politics by tantrum may ring hollow absent the hemisphere’s alpha provocateur.

by Mac Margolis

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Leopoldo López leaves embassy haven to flee Venezuela

25-10-2020 10:54 Statement from Voluntad Popular party confirms former opposition mayor has left the country to continue his work from abroad in a decision they deemed “best for the country and the fight for Venezuela's freedom.”

Asia

Yoshihide Suga named Japan's prime minister, succeeding Abe

16-09-2020 15:54 Japan's Parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as prime minister Wednesday, replacing long-serving leader Shinzo Abe with his right-hand man.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela opposition politician breaks with US-backed Guaidó

03-09-2020 00:04 Henrique Capriles says he will fight for fair elections, breaking with US-backed leader Juan Guaido, whose coalition has vowed to boycott Venezuela's upcoming congressional elections.

RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER

Germany: Soviet-era nerve agent used in poisoning of Russia's Navalny

02-09-2020 23:49 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny poisoned with same type of Soviet-era nerve agent used in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, says German government, provoking outrage from Western leaders who demanded Moscow provide an explanation.

BLOOMBERG

Brazil says it’s prepared to deal with Biden

28-07-2020 22:36 Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo says Brasilia would have no problem dealing with Joe Biden, should he defeat Donald Trump in this year's US election.

Global pandemic

White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

25-05-2020 08:39 Brazil, now Latin America's hardest-hit country, has recorded more than 347,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths from Covid-19.

ARGENTINA CORONAVIRUS

Fears over Covid-19 in villas come to fruition with community leader's death

23-05-2020 09:13 Ramona Medina's death shines a light on the problems facing Argentina’s poorest amid the coronavirus pandemic, which is spreading more rapidly in low-income neighbourhoods.

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Video of Cabinet meeting puts Brazil's Bolsonaro under fire

22-05-2020 23:34 A profanity-laced video showing Bolsonaro expressing frustration at his inability to get information from police and vowing to change Cabinet ministers if needed to protect his family was released Friday, May 22, 2020, at the order of a Supreme Court justice.

BOLIVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS

Morales protégé, Luis Arce, leads in polls head of Bolivian election

16-03-2020 22:32 The candidate of ex-president Evo Morales' MAS party, Luis Arce, has a commanding lead in opinion polls ahead of the May 3 presidential election in Bolivia

Bloomberg

Coronavirus fallout and Congress obstacles put pressure on Bolsonaro

04-03-2020 15:03 Brazilian leader is struggling to engineer an economic take-off, as list of challenges grows.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela's Guaidó sworn in as National Assembly speaker after stand-off

07-01-2020 13:55 Opposition leader sworn in for another term as the speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday after a tense stand-off with the Armed Forces who initially prevented him from entering Congress.

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Brazil's Bolsonaro holds his ground but faces tough second year

01-01-2020 09:00 Heading into his second year as president, far-right Brazilian leader has held firm to his combative culture-warrior policies while feuding with critics at home and abroad.

STATE-RUN ENERGY FIRM

Contenders line up with YPF likely to take on new leadership

09-11-2019 11:35 Current chairman Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez looks set to retire with change of government – here’s five names who could lead the state energy giant under the Alberto Fernández administration.

JAILED SOCIAL LEADER

UCR's Cornejo slams 'irresponsible' Fernández over Milagro Sala comments

08-11-2019 17:24 President-elect accused of "anti-republican behaviour" after saying jailed Túpac Amaru leader "does not deserve to be detained." Sala, meanwhile, says she wants to run for governorship of Jujuy Province.

RADICAL LEADERSHIP

Cornejo set to stay on as UCR chairman after talks with Morales

07-11-2019 18:01 Outgoing Mendoza governor set to stay on as Radical (UCR) party chairman, after talks with Jujuy's Gerardo Morales. However, Cornejo will not abandon ambitions to be the future opposition leader in Congress.

News of leader

Peru president announces PM will step down, triggering resignation of Cabinet

Rosario drug gang leader given 22-year jail term in seventh trial

Scrum for chancellery as SPD takes lead in post-Merkel election

IMF chief risks weakened authority after China-linked probe

Peruvian Congress approves Castillo's cabinet after lengthy debate

Venezuela frees key opposition leader accused of treason, terrorism

Venezuela election negotiations set to begin next week in Mexico

Mercedes 'Porota' Meroño, vice-president of Madres de Plaza de Mayo, dies at 95

Doctors denied access to 'very weak' opposition Russian leader Navalny

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-Covid world

Bolsonaro government’s message to Biden: Trumpism lives on in Brazil

Merkel’s party must finally settle on a new leader and is torn

City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta tests positive for Covid-19

Uruguay in mourning as ex-president Tabaré Vázquez dies aged 80

Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Trump’s biggest orphan

Leopoldo López leaves embassy haven to flee Venezuela

Yoshihide Suga named Japan's prime minister, succeeding Abe

Venezuela opposition politician breaks with US-backed Guaidó

Germany: Soviet-era nerve agent used in poisoning of Russia's Navalny

Brazil says it’s prepared to deal with Biden

White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

Fears over Covid-19 in villas come to fruition with community leader's death

Video of Cabinet meeting puts Brazil's Bolsonaro under fire

Morales protégé, Luis Arce, leads in polls head of Bolivian election

Coronavirus fallout and Congress obstacles put pressure on Bolsonaro

Venezuela's Guaidó sworn in as National Assembly speaker after stand-off

Brazil's Bolsonaro holds his ground but faces tough second year

Contenders line up with YPF likely to take on new leadership

UCR's Cornejo slams 'irresponsible' Fernández over Milagro Sala comments

Cornejo set to stay on as UCR chairman after talks with Morales

Pre-election jitters send blue dollar, country risk rate soaring

Argentina's peso weakens past key level in parallel market

Venezuela ex-intel chief claims Hugo Chávez sent Kirchners US$21 million

Charly García delights fans with surprise 70th birthday show

In the land of the magic money tree

Fernando Niembro, una presencia que empieza a incomodar

Tomar nota del hartazgo

Gerardo Martínez y Teddy Karagozian: Debate sobre el trabajo

Retroceder hacia el futuro

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