POLITICS & JUDICIARY Government’s row with Supreme Court hits new heights 11-05-2023 23:36 Explosive reaction to ruling suspending gubernatorial elections in San Juan and Tucumán; President Alberto Fernández accuses justices of targeting Peronist candidates.
ELECTIONS 2023 Supreme Court suspends elections in San Juan, Tucumán 09-05-2023 18:19 Supreme Court suspends provincial elections in San Juan and Tucumán, just five days before voters are due to go to the ballot-box.
CRIME & SECURITY Family seek justice for slain Catamarca minister 06-04-2023 18:00 The children of Juan Carlos Rojas, late Catamarca Province social development minister, denounce the “cover up” of their father’s brutal murder last December, providing photos of mutilated victim as proof of wrongdoing.
DIPLOMATIC SPAT Ecuador and Argentina in diplomatic row over fugitive ex-minister 15-03-2023 10:34 Diplomatic spat escalates after it emerged María de los Ángeles Duarte, a convicted former cabinet minister who had been living in the Argentine Embassy in Quito, had escaped to Venezuela.
UNREST IN PERU Peru judge extends ex-president Castillo's pre-trial detention to three years 10-03-2023 10:46 A Peruvian judge on Thursday extended former president of Peru Pedro Castillo's pre-trial detention to 36 months for "allegedly being the leader of a criminal organisation," the Supreme Court announced.
Drug Trafficking Honduras extradites alleged drug matriarch to the US 26-07-2022 16:00 Honduras hands over gang grandame for US trial; sexagenarian Herlinda Bobadilla arrested in mountainous cartel shootout which killed son.
As I see it Ports in a storm 25-07-2022 15:56 Why is Boris Johnson out of office, but Alberto Fernández clings on? The simplest answer to that question lies in the difference between parliamentary and presidential democracy. by James Neilson
New Era in Colombia Colombian president-elect proposes 'ceasefire,' talks with ELN 06-07-2022 15:46 Colombia's leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro proposes a "bilateral ceasefire" with the violence-stricken country's last active guerrilla group, the ELN.
Tragedy in Colombia Four dead, hundreds hurt as stands collapse in Colombia bullring 28-06-2022 10:56 A toddler was among four people killed when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed, injuring hundreds of others.