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Colombia reaches one million confirmed coronavirus cases
It comes after Argentina hit the same milestone on Monday.
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It comes after Argentina hit the same milestone on Monday.
Meanwhile, in India, the number of cases have doubled in three weeks.
It follows weeks of protests against the re-election of the 60-year-old.
Through the years, O’Neill worked primarily on Trócaire projects in Latin America.
The protests are the worst experienced in the 11 years President Daniel Ortega has led the country.
Over 145,000 hectares of coca were cultivated last year.
The current president has also been charged with taking bribes and several of his ministers have resigned after corruption claims were made.
A number of Latin American countries have hit out at the move.
Thousands of women across South America took part in the demonstration.
A new report from Amnesty International looks at the treatment of those advocating for safe abortions and sexual health across Latin America.
Peru has rejected legalised abortions for victims of rape.
Price have risen by 20% yearly for the past 8 years.
Dilma Rousseff saw off the challenge of Aecio Neves in the presidential run-off.
Dilma Rousseff won the first-round election last night and now faces a run-off against her centre-right opponent.
Shockingly, nearly 95,000 children were killed in one year alone.
The real competition in Brazil is for ownership of the land and control of natural resources.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez grew up in a Bogotá rife with violence, and a drugs trade beginning to take off. His experiences inspired his IMPAC-winning novel.
The President and his wife will attend a lunch hosted by his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Peña Nieto, where they’ll also be joined by business and academic figures from the country’s Irish community.
Nicaragua and Venezuela have also offered asylum to the American – one days after denouncing the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane over Europe amid reports that the fugitive was aboard.
A 22-year-old critically ill pregnant woman, whose foetus has been given no chance of surviving, has been denied an abortion after judges rejected her lawyers’ appeal that the pregnancy was life-threatening.
Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and war crimes in a ruling arising from massacres of indigenous people in the 1980s.
In his first Easter Sunday message in front of a crowd in St Peter’s Square, Pope Francis prayed for Syria, the Korean peninsula and issued an appeal for hostages held by militants in Nigeria.
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Venezuelan vice president Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in later today and said that Chavez will be kept in a glass casket “for eternity”.
“Nobody is going to stop this revolution. We are making history,” leftist leader Rafael Correa declared as he secured a third term in office.
The skulls were found away from any pyramid or temple complex, and date to an era where no major civilisation flourished.
Dr Oliver Moore travelled to the Latin American country with Trócaire to see local communities becoming empowered to fight for a clean environment, and for sustainable development.
The Latin American country is considering a new law to give same-sex couples all the same rights and responsibilities of heterosexual married couples.
A. We should look to Middle East and Latin America, according to new trade forecast.
The move will likely strengthen President Cristina Kirchner’s hopes of retaining control of the legislature and potentially change the constitution to allow her to run for a third term.
Michael D Higgins arrived in Sao Paulo yesterday and headed straight for a meeting with the popular former president.
President Michael D Higgins has a busy schedule on the day two of his South American trip.
The President met with his Chilean counterpart on a busy day of public engagements.
Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, alleged to be the country’s last major drug lord, has been arrested in an international sting.
The President is expected to make an official visit to Chile, Brazil and Argentina next month.
Correa said the alleged actions against the WikiLeaks founder were ‘not crimes in 90 to 95 per cent of the world’ but they had played no part in Quito’s decision to grant Assange asylum.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos praised the release of captives, but called the move “insufficient” to merit a peace dialogue.
The Venezuelan leader has undergone surgery for another potentially cancerous tumour.
Six people have been confirmed dead and 16 remain missing following the collapse of three high-rise buildings in Rio de Janeiro earlier today.