Latin America News Dispatch

The RadioLAND podcast for November 2, 2019.

On Wednesday, Chilean president Sebastian Piñera said that the country had to focus on “re-establishing public order.”

In a live video lasting over 20 minutes, Bolsonaro denied any wrongdoing and accused the media of trying to damage his government and the country.

Meanwhile, protesters gathered in the United States to show support for the ongoing demonstrations in Chile.

López became the first woman, and the first gay woman, to be elected mayor of Bogotá as Colombia’s election results poured in yesterday.

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera called for his entire cabinet to offer their resignations on Saturday, in response to a week of protests that have taken over the capital city.

The RadioLAND podcast for October 26, 2019.

Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared President Evo Morales the winner of Sunday’s election last night.

The incumbent president received 47.08% of the vote and Carlos Mesa 36.51%, giving him a lead of 10.56%, according to the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

Protesters decrying the election as rigged, as well as groups supporting Morales, are expected to continue to demonstrate throughout the country today.

The woman, known only as Jane Doe, said that a former ICE agent threatened to deport her if she did not have sex with him, raped her several times a week for seven years and impregnated her three times.

Bolivian presidential candidates must score 10 points ahead of their competitors to avoid going to a run-off election.

Protests began Friday evening when high school students started occupying subway stations in Santiago after news broke that the subway fare would increase to $1.16.

“Deforestation and preservation are also economic, social and political matters,” Gabriel Santos said.

The report, using data collected from the beginning of 2018 to the summer of 2019, notes the arrest and detention of political prisoners as one of the most important factors in its designation.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended his militarized police force and blamed past administrations for Mexico’s chronic violence.

Sounds of what may be automatic weapon fire were widespread on social media.

Front-runner Alberto Fernández and current President Mauricio Macri faced off over the state of the Argentine economy, past corruption scandals and a national debate over abortion legalization.

The Indigenous communities arrived in Quito earlier this week and have been protesting all over Ecuador due to Moreno’s decision to end government fuel subsidies.

Violence among protesters has increased, and Quito is under curfew, where 570 people have been detained as of Tuesday.

Thousands of Mexicans cross the border each week on temporary visas designed to allow people to shop or engage in transactions that don’t equate to “gainful employment,” according to ProPublica.