Argentina and Brazil will discuss the creation of a common South American currency, their presidents have confirmed. In a joint statement today, President Alberto Fernández and his newly-inaugurated Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, confirmed that the two countries’ economy ministers are to draw up plans with …
Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, on Thursday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change. Police estimated the march at around 3,500 people, but others speculated it attracted …
Brazil’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings a week ago, was arrested in Brasilia today on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”. His detention came a day after Brazil’s public prosecutor announced that it had …
At least 17 people were killed in clashes with police in southern Peru, the country’s human rights office said on Monday, the deadliest day so far of protests demanding early elections and the release of jailed former president Pedro Castillo. The clashes occurred in Juliaca, a city near …
Argentine politicians across the spectrum have condemned Sunday’s attack on Brazil’s congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace. While ruling center-left Frente de Todos coalition has voiced solidarity with Lula, the Juntos por el Cambio opposition has compared the attacks with the internal wrangle for Argentina’s Supreme Court. The …
Brazilian security forces have detained over 1,200 pro-Bolsonaro protesters who were camping outside the army headquarters in Brasília in rejection of last October’s election results. Their removal comes as the government starts to investigate those responsible for storming the nation’s Congress, Supreme Court, and Presidential Palace on Sunday. …
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is reeling in shock after supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and defaced the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday afternoon, in a grim echo of the U.S. Capitol invasion two years ago by fans of former President …
The violent invasion of the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia by thousands of far-right supporters –only a week into Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s third government–, caught security forces strikingly off guard, especially state military police and the Army. Indeed, evicting the camps set up near …
“We’ve decided to put relations between Argentina and Brazil back on track,” said Alberto Fernández in a press conference after meeting with Lula da Silva in the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasília. “They’ve been complicated for the past four years, but we hope we’ll advance in all the topics …
