News of leader

Bolivia ex-leader Áñez stands trial for Bolivia coup

10-02-2022 11:19 Jeanine Áñez stands trial Thursday, accused of orchestrating the ouster of her predecessor as Bolivia's leader, Evo Morales.

Congress & Politics

‘Grateful’ president picks Germán Martínez as Máximo Kirchner’s successor

03-02-2022 16:03 Close to former cabinet minister Agustín Rossi, Santa Fe deputy has been sitting in Congress since 2019. Germán Martínez belongs to the Corriente Nacional de la Militancia, a Kirchnerite grouping headed by Rossi in Rosario.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nobel winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel released from hospital after stroke

05-01-2022 13:33 Argentine human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was released from hospital following a minor stroke, his family said late on Tuesday.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in hospital after stroke scare

02-01-2022 17:33 Human rights activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize, was taken to hospital following a health scare.

EUROPEAN POLITICS

'Hamstrung' Europe searches for a post-Merkel leader

28-12-2021 10:15 Angela Merkel's departure from the political stage after 16 years as chancellor has not only ushered in a new era in Germany but also shaken up the power balance in the European Union.

POLITICAL TENSIONS IN PERU

Peruvian Congress rejects attempt to impeach President Castillo

08-12-2021 08:55 Peruvian lawmakers reject a motion to start impeachment proceedings against Pedro Castillo, just five months into his presidency.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Rogelio Frigerio: ‘Juntos por el Cambio needs a more federal leadership’

26-11-2021 23:29 Fresh off the back of a convincing victory in the recent midterms, former interior minister Rogelio Frigerio discusses provincial politics, broadening the opposition coalition’s leadership and why Peronism only united for the election.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Peruvian politics

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.

News of leader

Bolivia ex-leader Áñez stands trial for Bolivia coup

‘Grateful’ president picks Germán Martínez as Máximo Kirchner’s successor

Nobel winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel released from hospital after stroke

Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in hospital after stroke scare

'Hamstrung' Europe searches for a post-Merkel leader

Peruvian Congress rejects attempt to impeach President Castillo

Rogelio Frigerio: ‘Juntos por el Cambio needs a more federal leadership’

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

UK Prime Minister Johnson defies calls to quit over lockdown-breaking parties

Pesos get political with new bills featuring ‘national heroes and heroines’

Argentina moves closer to joining BRICS group

Government relaxes FX rules for companies to boost Vaca Muerta development

'Nightmare' as gunman murders 19 children, two teachers in Texas

La salud del papa Francisco: un importante nombramiento agita el fantasma de la dimisión

Cristina Kirchner, Mandela y la Madre Teresa, en un álbum histórico de la reina Isabel II

A 50 años del día que cambió la historia de la homosexualidad

Luis Juez lapidó a la Corte por el caso de la fiscal Goyeneche: “Si tuviera un poco más de huevos, podría intervenir”

Más que "segundo tiempo", Macri ha instalado "la revancha"