ABORTO LEGAL Argentina legalises abortion in major shift for women’s rights 30-12-2020 10:25 Argentina legalised elective abortion on Wednesday morning, marking a historic shift toward women’s rights in one of Latin America’s largest Catholic countries.
ABORTO LEGAL Senators approve historic bill to legalise abortion in Argentina 30-12-2020 04:44 After a marathon debate in the upper house that stretched into early hours of the morning, senators back bill with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and a single abstention.
Abortion bill Argentina nears legal abortion as undecided senators show support 29-12-2020 23:47 Three previously undecided senators indicate in speeches that they will likely back the government’s bid to legalise abortion, putting Argentina on the verge of a historic breakthrough.
Abortion bill Senate opens debate on landmark abortion bill 29-12-2020 18:01 Debate on historic bill opens with 67 of 72 senators present. A total of 58 individuals will speak prior to the vote, which is expected to take place at around 4am Wednesday morning.
Abortion bill Numbers in the balance ahead of historic abortion bill vote 28-12-2020 17:01 Session set to begin 4pm Tuesday. Outcome uncertain, some outlets predict 32-32 tie, a situation that would grant Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the deciding vote.
Abortion bill Argentina's Catholics, evangelicals unite against abortion bill 27-12-2020 09:12 As the Senate prepares for a December 29 vote on a bill that would legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks, the Catholic Church has joined forces with evangelical Christians to fight the measure tooth and nail.
Abortion bill Amnesty gathers 250,000 signatures for legal abortion in Argentina 17-12-2020 19:29 Ahead of the Senate vote on legalising abortion in Argentina, Amnesty International collected signatures in support of the bill from numerous countries, including Brazil, Canada, Taiwan, and Britain.
Congress Senate passes bill to limit commercial use of fire-destroyed land 07-12-2020 19:44 The Senate has passed a law placing bans of up to 60 years on any changes in the use of land razed by fire, including real-estate projects, in order to avoid speculation.
JUAN GUAIDÓ INTERVIEW Leading poll boycott, Venezuela's Guaidó seeks more sanctions on Maduro 02-12-2020 00:12 Opposition leader Juan Guaidó is leading a boycott of Venezuela's legislative elections on Sunday and, despite losing political momentum, says he is still the person the international community needs to oust Nicolás Maduro's regime.
Abortion bill Thousands march to Congress in protest at new move to legalise abortion 29-11-2020 08:48 Thousands of anti-abortion protesters demonstrated on Saturday across Argentina, against the government's new bill seeking to legalise abortion.
US ELECTION 2020 Firings, recount calls, angry tweets – Trump continues bid to invalidate election 18-11-2020 19:34 Firing the US election security chief and pressuring local officials to throw out valid votes, US President Donald Trump is continuing his efforts to invalidate Joe Biden's election win.
Bolivia Bolivia's Evo Morales says he has taken back control of his party 18-11-2020 00:05 Former Bolivia president Evo Morales announced Tuesday he had re-taken the leadership of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) party he founded, a week after returning from exile.
BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS Peru taps third president in less than a week to fill power vacuum 17-11-2020 08:07 Lawmakers on Monday voted in Francisco Sagasti, an elder-statesman legislator with extensive consulting experience at home and abroad to lead a new government by electing him head of congress and new president.
PERUVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS Peruvian Congress chooses centrist Francisco Sagasti as new president 16-11-2020 19:25 Francisco Sagasti chosen as next leader by Congress as Peru gets to grips with deep political crisis, sparked by the impeachment of one popular president and the resignation of his controversial successor amid protests which killed two people.
PERUVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS Merino resigns as Peru president after five days in power 15-11-2020 17:59 Peru's interim leader Manuel Merino resigned on Sunday, just five days after taking office, sparking wild street celebrations in the capital Lima after protests against his rule.
PERUVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS Peru's new leader faces calls to resign after three protesters killed 15-11-2020 08:16 Lawmakers call for the "immediate resignation" of interim president Manuel Merino, after a violent crackdown on protests against his new government left at least three dead and more than 60 injured.
PERUVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS Peru's Congress votes to impeach President Vizcarra on graft allegations 09-11-2020 22:19 Peru's Congress voted Monday to impeach President Martín Vizcarra over allegations he took kickbacks from developers while a regional governor. Congress leader Manuel Marino will now take over the presidential functions until July 2021.
PRESIDENT SWORN-IN Luis Arce takes power in Bolivia facing deep challenges 09-11-2020 14:46 Luis Arce assumed the Bolivian presidency on Sunday in a ceremony attended by foreign leaders including President Alberto Fernández.
Ex-Bolivia president Evo Morales confirms Bolivia return – with Alberto Fernández as his chaperone 08-11-2020 22:48 Bolivia's former president confirms that he will return to his homeland from exile on Monday – though he said that President Alberto Fernández would accompany him "for security reasons."
US ELECTION 2020 Trump fraud claims meet with limited Republican criticism 06-11-2020 18:42 Trump's unfounded accusations of fraud in the US presidential election condemned by some Republicans, but top party figures refuse to criticise remarks.
US ELECTION 2020 US state of Georgia says will recount razor-thin vote 06-11-2020 18:31 The US state of Georgia said Friday it will recount votes from the election in which Joe Biden has eked out a razor-thin lead over President Donald Trump.
US ELECTION 2020 Peaceful protests in New York as tensions rise in Detroit 04-11-2020 22:27 Thousands of Biden supporters march in New York to demand every vote in tight election be counted, as some Trump supporters protest in Detroit, demanding a halt to ballot counting in the key state of Michigan.
US ELECTION 2020 Hardly a surprise – a look at Trump's long-running fraud claims 04-11-2020 09:57 The Republican has a long history of alleging that elections are rigged – especially when the results are not to his liking.
US ELECTION 2020 United States election shadowed by threats of legal challenges 03-11-2020 07:58 Both parties in today's US election have enlisted prominent lawyers with ties to Democratic and Republican administrations should that litigation take on a new urgency if a narrow margin in a battleground state becomes the difference between another four years for Trump or a Joe Biden administration.
US ELECTION 2020 Biden leads in polls going into US election but battlegrounds tight 02-11-2020 23:56 Democrat Joe Biden leads in the national polls and most of the battleground states going into Election Day. But US presidential elections are not decided by the popular vote...
US ELECTION 2020: LONG READ 'Raw exposed nerves': Anxious United States awaits Election Day 02-11-2020 17:25 As Election Day closes in, many US citizens are exhausted from constant crises, on edge because of volatile political divisions, and anxious about what will happen next.
US ELECTION 2020 US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms 02-11-2020 17:10 The two US presidential candidates have stark differences on fighting human-caused climate change. Experts say the outcome of Tuesday's election will determine to some degree just how hot and nasty the world will get in the future.
US ELECTION 2020 Many Cubans hope US election will lead to renewed ties 01-11-2020 07:27 Few countries in Latin America have seen as dramatic a change in US relations during the Trump administration – or have as much at stake in who wins the election.
Abortion bill Abortion reform battle set to begin – but how will senators vote? 31-10-2020 14:49 President Alberto Fernández has confirmed that he will send a bill to legalise abortion in Argentina to Congress imminently. Here’s how the numbers shape up ahead in the upper house of an era-defining vote.
LATIN AMERICA: LANDSLIDE IN REFERENDUM Chile embarks upon a new path after landslide vote 31-10-2020 10:14 Chileans are eager for change, but a long road lies ahead in the search for a new constitution.
US ELECTION 2020 Trump's potential paths to victory on November 3 31-10-2020 08:32 US president has several potential routes to victory on November 3 – the most likely ones wind through the battleground states of Florida and Pennsylvania.
LATAM WATCH Go vote, boy! 31-10-2020 08:31 Latinos don’t vote as a bloc, but with 32 million eligible voters, they will certainly go a long way towards swinging Tuesday’s US election. by Carolina Barros
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Bolivia's Morales calls for calm after protesters demand junta 27-10-2020 17:33 Exiled former Bolivian president calls for calm after right-wing protesters in Santa Cruz demand a "military junta" to replace socialist president-elect Luis Arce.
BLOOMBERG Latin America’s winners and losers in US vote: Election guide 27-10-2020 13:45 Firms from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina are some of the Latin American stocks whose outlook is tied in part to the outcome of next Tuesday's US election.
Referendum on constitution Chileans look to future after referendum result 26-10-2020 17:43 Focus shifts to Chile's next chapter, as the country begins the tricky task of forging a new constitution.
Ex-Bolivia president Evo Morales says his return to Bolivia doesn't depend on him 26-10-2020 17:25 Former Bolivia president admitted on Monday that his return to his homeland is out of his hands, as a judge lifted a preventative detention order against him over alleged "terrorism."
BLOOMBERG Chile investors brace for debate over new constitution 26-10-2020 17:10 Chileans voted overwhelmingly to change their constitution Sunday, triggering a wave of celebrations across the country and ushering in as much as two years of debate over the new charter. Here's what analysts had to say about what comes next.
Constitutional referendum 'Now there are real changes coming' – Chileans hail landmark vote 26-10-2020 08:10 Amid a year of Covid-19 contagion and social turmoil, Chileans vote for a new dawn.
Chile votes Chileans overwhelmingly vote to scrap Pinochet-era constitution 25-10-2020 22:42 Chile voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to scrap its Pinochet-era constitution and draft a new one. With more than half the votes counted, 77.9% backed a fresh charter, a key demand by protesters that took to the streets last year in huge numbers.
Constitutional referendum Sniffing the winds of change in Chile referendum 25-10-2020 14:50 A year to the day after more than one million people thronged downtown Santiago in the biggest march of Chile's social uprising, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to change the country's dictatorship-era Constitution.
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Electoral authorities confirm Arce's landslide win in Bolivian election 23-10-2020 14:22 Bolivia's electoral tribunal on Friday published official results from last weekend's presidential election, confirming leftist Luis Arce's landslide victory.
BLOOMBERG - OPINION Bolivia’s new president can’t ride Latin America’s ‘pink tide’ 22-10-2020 14:49 The Bolivia that Luis Arce will govern is far from the economic juggernaut Morales commanded during the commodities boom. Coronavirus has clobbered the country. Set to shrink by 7.9 percent this year, its economy is hurtling toward a balance of payments crisis. by Mac Margolis
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Hundreds protest in Bolivia with Arce set for presidential poll win 21-10-2020 15:50 Authoritative exit polls suggest Luis Arce, 57-year-old economist from the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and heir to former president Evo Morales, has beaten centrist former leader Carlos Mesa by a wide enough margin to avoid a run-off.
EVO TO EXIT ARGENTINA Evo Morales says he will return to Bolivia after ally's election victory 19-10-2020 15:34 "Sooner or later we are going to return to Bolivia, that is not up for debate," exiled Bolivian leader tells a press conference in Buenos Aires.
Bolivian election Luis Arce, key Morales ally, claims victory in Bolivia's election redo 19-10-2020 09:50 Evo Morales’ party claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential election as official results trickled in from Sunday’s high-stakes redo of last year’s annulled ballot.
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Bolivia 'has recovered democracy,' says Luis Arce, as exit poll suggests win 19-10-2020 09:34 Bolivian presidential candidate Luis Arce, leftist heir to former leader Evo Morales, headed to a first-round election victory in Bolivian election. Interim president Jeanine Áñez, who was not a candidate, congratulates Arce and his running mate on their apparent win.
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Bolivia's outgoing president calls for patience amid slow vote count 18-10-2020 22:21 Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Áñez called for "patience" and urged citizens to avoid violence as they wait for the results from Sunday's general election.
Bolivia election Bolivians fear 'upheaval' on nation's 'historic' election day 18-10-2020 08:08 Polls open at 8am this morning for an election that will not feature former president Evo Morales for the first time in 20 years.
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Bolivians hope election can help ease year of pain, turmoil 15-10-2020 19:15 Sunday's presidential election gives Bolivians at least a chance for a political reset as they struggle with the dramatic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic.
BOLIVIAN ELECTION Economic headache awaits victor in Bolivian election 14-10-2020 23:27 Bolivians go to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday, in the midst of the country's biggest economic crisis for 40 years.