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The European Union joins the United States and several Latin American nations in refusing to accept the claimed Venezuelan presidential election victory of Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro.
2024-08-5

A federal prosecutor requests a 12-year sentence for former president and current vice president of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on corruption-related charges.
2022-08-22

The WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts recommends that immunocompromised people receive a third dose of the vaccine due to the risk of breakthrough infections after standard immunization. The panel also recommends that people over the age of 60 receive an additional dose of the Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccine three months after their second dose, citing the performance of the vaccines in Latin America.
2021-10-11

Chile becomes the first Latin American country to ban the commercial use of single-use plastic bags.
2018-08-3

Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is indicted on corruption charges.
2016-12-27

Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iranian links to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in order to open up trade with Iran, dies of a gunshot wound to the head with the type of death still undetermined.
2015-01-19

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner appeals to Pope Francis for assistance in settling Argentina's dispute over the Falkland Islands with the United Kingdom.
2013-03-18

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron say the future of the Falkland Islands is up to its inhabitants, not Argentina. His statement comes after the President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner urged the prime minister to abide by a 1965 UN resolution to "negotiate a solution" to the dispute.
2013-01-3

The death occurs of Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas, one of Latin America's greatest modern writers.
2011-04-25

Desire Petroleum, a British-listed firm, begins drilling for oil at an offshore platform within the territory of the Falkland Islands, amid mounting criticism from Argentina and Venezuela.
2010-02-22