Latin America

Over the past few decades, Bolivia has transformed in a way that many considered irreversible.

The ruling is expected to cause contention among Fujimori’s supporters and detractors.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal narrowly approved a habeas corpus request Monday to free opposition leader Keiko Fujimori from preliminary detention while she is investigated for alleged corruption.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Students, women’s activists and indigenous people marched through the center of Colombia’s capital Monday in a fifth day of protests against the government as the country recorded the first death of a demonstrator.

The protest was a response to high rates of femicide in the country, one of the highest in Latin America.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A center-right candidate appeared Monday to have ended 15 years of left-leaning government in Uruguay, but the presidential runoff election was so close that the result may not be certain until Thursday.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of people have protested in Colombia over the past week, voicing discontent with the conservative government of President Iván Duque.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian lawmakers on Saturday unanimously approved a measure calling for new presidential elections that would exclude former leader Evo Morales, a key step toward pacifying a nation rocked by unrest since an Oct. 20 marred by reported irregularities.

The day was chosen to remember the Mirabal sisters who were killed during a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic

On balance, Piñera’s four speeches were more positive than negative—a perhaps surprising finding, given what is now clear about the depth of Chile’s crisis.

The RadioLAND podcast for November 23, 2019.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Erika Lorena Aifán is used to threats after more than a decade as a judge in Guatemala, but she says the tone has intensified in recent months, such as the text message to her cellphone saying that she and her family “should be dead.”

ECATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Four women walked barefoot Saturday on hot asphalt, clothed in shreds of organza in pastel shades of pink and yellow, the favorite colors of one of the many women murdered in Mexico.

In Cali, southeast of the country, the mayor declared a curfew from 7 p.m. until Friday morning.

A significant source of Mexican cartel weapons come from legal sales by U.S. gun companies to the Mexican military and police.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Political violence broke out at a Roman Catholic church in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya on Thursday as government sympathizers attacked parishioners with clubs, machetes and metal bars.

Young Venezuelans who leave today have fewer resources to begin with and often have to make it on their own in the United States, with the added financial burden of sending money back home.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombians angry with conservative President Iván Duque and hoping to channel Latin America’s wave of discontent took the streets by the tens of thousands Thursday in one of the biggest protests in the nation’s recent history.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — After a month of deadly unrest, the political party of former Bolivian President Evo Morales appears to be positioning itself for a future without the man who led the country for 14 years.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The United States has begun carrying out a landmark policy shift on asylum that’s a top priority of President Donald Trump, returning a Honduran immigrant to Guatemala to pursue his asylum case.

The anti-government protests are set to take place in cities across the country are expected to be the largest in recent history.