Unasur

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 18:31 UTC

  Maduro urges like-minded regional leaders to seize the opportunity

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged his fellow leftwing Latin American leaders to seize the opportunity to strengthen regional integration and “agree on the construction of a common economic space” and of “a common monetary system.”

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 22:09 UTC

  Bachelet, Duhalde, Mujica and other Latin American leaders ask Maduro to restore Unasur

  

  A group of former South American presidents, foreign ministers, high-ranking officials, lawmakers, and intellectuals Monday sent a letter to Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro inviting him to join their initiative to relaunch the Union of South American Nations (Unasur for its Spanish name).

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Runasur launched in Buenos Aires

  

  Delegations from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela Sunday formally signed Runasur's “Declaration of Buenos Aires,” launching the group promoted by former Bolivian leader Evo Morales.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Lula and Biden share common views during phone call

  

  US President Joseph Biden and Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva held a telephone conversation during which they concurred on several issues, it was reported.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 10:53 UTC

  Lula is back as president of Brazil after narrowly defeating Bolsonaro

  

  Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return to power in Brazil for the third time after defeating incumbent head of State Jair Bolsonaro in the ballot by a very narrow margin, reflecting a huge division in the South American giant.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  CELAC FMs call for joint connection with the rest of the world

  

  Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires Wednesday issued a statement calling for the consolidation of regional unity while deepening strategies for joint approaches regarding the bloc's connection with the rest of the world.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Lula is the Brazilian version of Alberto Fernández, Bolsonaro's son claims

  

  Brazilian Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro likened Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva to Argentine President Alberto Fernández during a trip to Buenos Aires where he met with local Liberal Congressman Javier Milei in an attempt to boost his father's reelection campaign.

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 22:06 UTC

  Ecuadorian military finds more than 750 antipersonnel mines in border with Colombia

  

  More than 750 handmade antipersonnel mines were found in the Amazonian province of Sucumbios, bordering Colombia. The finding in charge of the Ecuadorian military was reported Thursday by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces.

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Tebet will vote to Lula and together with Cardoso and Gomes hit Bolsonaro's calculations

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva will be endorsed by Sunday's third-place finisher Simone Tebet of the Movement of Brazilian Democracy (MDB) for Oct. 30's runoff against the incumbent Jait Bolsonaro, it was announced Wednesday.

• Monday, October 3rd 2022 - 18:35 UTC

  Blinken takes adventurous trip into left-leaning Latin America

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is starting Monday a most unusual Latin American tour through which President Joseph Biden's administration seeks to follow up on the goals agreed upon during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June.