As in the past, President Alberto Fernández created controversy by displaying graphs that Chile said showed inaccurate data, making their COVID-19 rates seem much worse than they were.
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On Friday, June 26, 2020, Iván Duque, the president of Colombia, said that Venezuela is a ticking time bomb for public health and highlights Venezuela is a risk for its inability to contain COVID-19.
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Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, spoke on the state of Nicaraguan elections that have been postponed recently.
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Edison Lanza, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), maintained that the freedoms of press and speech have suffered setbacks in El Salvador during the first year of President Nayib Bukele’s administration.
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The economic measures adopted by the Paraguayan government to mitigate the impact of the crisis in the border areas now depend on the approval of Argentina and Brazil.
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Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro decided that transit across the Simón Bolivar International Bridge can only be held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and cannot exceed 300 people.
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While the coronavirus pandemic has had immense negative impacts around the world, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, believes that the pandemic may have been “useful” to Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela.
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The OAS supports a statistical analysis done of an audit on Bolivian elections that concluded that voter fraud was committed.
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Cuba has made the claim that Colombia, an ally of the United States, is attempting to pave the path for sanctions against Cuba.
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Uruguayan Luis Almagro has begun his second term, which will expire in 2025, as Secretary-General for the Organization of American States (OAS) and says that his first difficult job as Secretary-General will be “supporting the governments and the people of the hemisphere against the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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