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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Oct. 11-17, 2024 One Direction fans flocked to the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after singer Liam Payne died in a fall from a hotel balcony. Businesses in Ecuador’s capital have seen their sales dented by rolling power cuts introduced by the government...
US hits former Ecuador leaders with visa bans over corruption
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday imposed visa bans on former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, his vice president and their immediate families for corruption. The State Department announced that Correa and his one-time deputy Jorge Glas would no longer be...
Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted of human rights abuses, dies at 86
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86. His death Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was...
Catholic leaders discuss family and fraternity during congress in Ecuador
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The world is wounded, Catholic leaders said Thursday in Ecuador. But an emphasis on supporting the family could be a path towards healing. Catholic leaders from more than 50 countries have discussed this and other topics in Quito, the Ecuadoran capital,...
Police in Guinea-Bissau seize nearly 3 tons of cocaine on plane from Venezuela
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Police in Guinea-Bissau seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, Bissau, over the weekend, judicial police said Monday. The agents confiscated 78 bales of drugs that were smuggled in...
Proposed resolution asks UN to plan for UN peacekeepers to replace Kenya-led police mission in Haiti
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft resolution on Friday asking the United Nations to begin planning for a U.N. peacekeeping operation to replace the Kenya-led mission now in the Caribbean nation helping police to quell gang violence. The proposed...
Ecuador starts dismantling Yasuni National Park oil block two days before court deadline
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador's government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, just as Friday's court-imposed deadline for completion looms. The Ministry for Energy and Mines said in a statement Wednesday...
Ecuador's citizens voted to stop oil drilling in heart of Amazon. A year later, it hasn't happened
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — It's been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country's share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to start shutting down operations. For supporters of the shutdown, that's not even the worst part: the...
Greek customs agents seize more than 90 kilograms of cocaine from a ship that originated in Ecuador
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Customs agents have seized around 93 kilograms (205 pounds) of cocaine at the port in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, authorities said. The cocaine was found on a ship that had sailed from Ecuador to Thessaloniki carrying bananas, which would...
