Daniel Schweimler

Foot­ball ac­tion re­sumes on the con­ti­nent af­ter a six-month sus­pen­sion be­cause of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic.

In spite of 150 days of lock­down, Ar­genti­na’s in­fec­tion rate and death toll con­tin­ue to rise.

In­dige­nous peo­ple around the world live in re­mote ar­eas with­out ad­e­quate health fa­cil­i­ties, clean wa­ter, san­i­ta­tion.

UN warns that pover­ty across the re­gion will rise by 7 per­cent, an in­crease equiv­a­lent to 45 mil­lion peo­ple.

Ar­genti­na gives ath­letes due to com­pete in next year’s de­layed Olympic games in Japan spe­cial per­mis­sion to train.

Coun­tries are strug­gling with the eco­nom­ic im­pact of pan­dem­ic-re­lat­ed re­stric­tions, which may not be over yet.

Coro­n­avirus in­fec­tions in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean climb as mea­sures to con­tain pan­dem­ic have dif­fer­ing suc­cess.

Ar­genti­na is em­broiled in a bit­ter dis­pute that goes to the heart of the coun­try’s iden­ti­ty and how it plans to emerge from the COVID-19 cri­sis.

Jair Bol­sonaro’s state­ment came de­spite con­dem­na­tion over his han­dling of a record num­ber of wild­fires ap­par­ent­ly linked to il­le­gal farm­ing and log­ging.

Pres­i­dent says Brazil should have au­ton­o­my over Ama­zon, as law for de­vel­op­ing in­dige­nous land is pushed out.