Latin America News Dispatch

The World Health Organization officially labeled the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic on Wednesday as countries across the region ramped up health measures and reported more confirmed cases of the virus.

On Monday, women held a “Day without Women” with an untold number of women not attending work and school.

The government maintained that the fire will not affect legislative elections later this year.

More than a million women marched in Chile, with the largest protests taking place around the Plaza de la Dignidad in Santiago.

Business leaders who support Bolsonaro are calling for a nationwide anti-democratic protest against Brazilian Congress, some even suggesting military rule should return.

“Every woman is to have six children! Every one! For the good of the country… Let the homeland grow!” Maduro told attendees.

Gilberto Jordán was deported to Guatemala on Tuesday after serving a ten-year prison sentence in the U.S.

ICE is legally mandated to evaluate cases individually and release people who do not pose a threat or a flight risk.

Argentine President Alberto Fernández told the country’s congress that he will introduce a bill to legalize abortion within the next 10 days.

Bolivia is preparing for a May presidential election after president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup last November.

According to the country’s Health Ministry, the 61-year-old man had recently traveled to Lombardy, Italy, an epicenter of coronavirus in Europe.

Thelma Aldana pursued prominent anti-corruption cases as prosecutor.

His statements followed a weekend of protests where a confrontation between police and at least 150 protestors happened outside the Viña del Mar music festival.

Police officers protesting pay and working conditions disrupted the first day of Haiti’s Carnival.

Protestors accuse the Board of corruption after elections were suspended on Sunday.

The Indigenous Náhuatl farmer, radio producer, and environmental activist was killed a day after he publicly spoke out against the Morelos Integral Project (MIP).

Human rights groups estimate that as many as 450,000 illegal and unsafe abortions occur in the country every year.

In the last two years, Calidda’s 40 archaeologists have found hundreds of artifacts from pre-Incan civilizations, as well as the bodies of Chinese farmers dating to the 19th century.

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Puerto Rico’s Industrial Development Company and the island’s Tourism Company sent more than $2.6 million in pension funds and $1.5 million, respectively, to false bank accounts.

It was the first meeting in Washington between an Ecuadorian and U.S. president in 17 years.