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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

South America

Natalia Casarotti speaks about the murder of her son Keshet at the Supernova music festival on October 7 for the Spanish-language series 'Testigos del Terror.' (Courtesy Fuente Latina)
March 24, 2025, 2:00 am
Looking to sway Spanish-speaking world, new series interviews Latin Israelis about Oct. 7
Following its premiere last month, ‘Testigos del Terror,’ or ‘Witnesses of Terror,’ seeks to show non-Jewish Hispanic viewers that the tragedy is not a political issue but a human one
By Rich Tenorio
Yamandu Orsi, the presidential candidate of left-wing coalition Broad Front, delivers a speech after winning the presidential election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 24, 2024. (Nicolas Celaya/JTA via Xinhua via Getty Images)
November 27, 2024, 10:12 pm
Uruguay’s new president-elect is left wing, yet not anti-Israel
Unlike his South American counterparts who have been vehemently critical of the Jewish state, Yamandu Orsi says he could consider himself a Zionist
By Juan Melamed
Chile's Palestino soccer team and their jerseys, which replace the numeral 1 with an outline of the entirety of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. (photo credit: Facebook/Club Deportivo Palestino)
September 9, 2024, 4:02 pm
Chile’s ‘Palestino’ soccer team wears its anti-Israel politics on its sleeve — and jersey
In sport where athletes are penalized for flaunting political affinities, club in country with largest Palestinian diaspora community outside Middle East is an unabashed exception
By AP and ToI Staff
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters gathered outside the Miraflores presidential palace after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
July 29, 2024, 10:24 am
Venezuela’s Maduro, opposition candidate both claim victory in presidential election
Opponents accuse incumbent leader of underhanded tactics after electoral authority claims he won 51% of the vote despite exit polls showing decisive victory for rival Gonzalez
By Vivian Sequera, Deisy Buitrago and Mayela Armas
Daniel Jadue in 2015. (Wikimedia commons)
January 5, 2024, 7:49 pm
Chilean mayor under fire for saying being Jewish is a ‘supremacist conception’
Daniel Jadue, a onetime presidential candidate of Palestinian descent, also says it’s a ‘contradiction’ to be both a Jew and a leftist
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Javier Milei, Liberty Advances coalition presidential candidate, center, greets supporters during his closing campaign rally in Cordoba, Argentina, November 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
November 19, 2023, 1:18 am
Ahead of Sunday’s election, one of Argentina’s two presidential candidates talks Torah
Javier Milei speaks to ToI about his plans, including changes to his country’s currency and the location of its Israel embassy, and roundly denounces Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre
By Michelle Mendeluk
Members of the Latin American Jewish Congress and the Muslim World League meet at a hotel in Buenos Aires, July 2023. (Courtesy of the World Jewish Congress via JTA)
July 19, 2023, 8:53 am
‘We are brothers’: Latin American Jewish, Muslim groups gather for landmark meeting
Major umbrella groups from both faiths sit down for 2 days and publish ‘decalogue’ of agreements to cooperate on interfaith activities, culture, sports and fighting hate speech
By Juan Melamed
Aminadav Shvat stands outside his restaurant in Pisac, next to an easel advertising some of the Israeli dishes he serves. (Jacob Kessler/ JTA)
June 15, 2023, 5:48 am
Israelis flock to this tiny town in Peru for vacation — and psychedelic spirituality
With Hebrew as common on the streets as the local language, Pisac is seeing an influx of sabras seeking a respite from the stresses of everyday life in Israel
By Jacob Kessler
Oh-jalá has to a 1,200-foot brick and mortar in a garage of an old colonial home in the posh Lima neighborhood of San Isidro. (Courtesy of Deborah Trapunsky via JTA)
March 5, 2023, 2:30 am
Founder of Peru’s only Jewish bakery turned Instagram star dishes food for thought
With Oh-jalá, Deborah Trapunsky serves up delectable challah and other baked goods while also sating a hunger for knowledge about Judaism among her 18,000 social media followers
By Jacob Kessler
Andrea de Caires, left, shown with her husband Salvador, is one of two known Jews in the English-speaking nation. (Courtesy of de Caires) via JTA
December 8, 2022, 4:30 am
In the tiny South American nation of Guyana, two Jews enjoy a tradition of tolerance
The impoverished country of 800,000 boasts rich cultural diversity, and though its Jewish residents may not be many, they are made to feel welcome from the government level on down
By Seth Wikas
From left, Jeimer Candelario, Nelson Cruz and Cesar Hernandez pose for a photo at a baseball field in Ra'anana, Israel. (Nico Andre' Duran via JTA)
November 28, 2022, 2:50 am
Nelson Cruz, Hispanic MLB players visit Israel to promote Christian-Jewish relations
Devout US group including Cesar Hernandez, Jeimer Candelario tours land where Jesus once walked; visitors say they’ll advocate for Israel in Latin America and in world of baseball
By Hillel Kuttler
Israeli blueberries grown in carefully tended containers in the Golan Heights will now be marketed from 2021 in Israel, Dubai and Europe Courtesy Carmel Berry)
January 23, 2021, 1:58 am
Blueberries from Down Under thrive in Israel’s north, indoors
Berry bushes are in the pink in Golan greenhouses, but the price may make you see red
By Jessica Steinberg
Uruguayan flag flies in front of the entrance to the Ministry of Public Health as precautions are taken against COVID-19 in Montevideo, Uruguay on March 16, 2020. (Carlos Lebrato/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)
December 31, 2020, 10:20 am
Argentina-based Latin American rabbinical institute expands to Uruguay
Many citizens of ‘volatile’ country, not just its Jews, seen immigrating to stable, safer, less coronavirus-infected neighbor
By JTA
Ohad Navon, 26, in the Bolivian Amazon (courtesy)
April 8, 2020, 10:29 am
Lost in the Amazon amid pandemic, a starving Israeli ‘nomad’ finds his way home
As Israel airlifts its stranded backpackers, here’s the story of one traveler who spent 3 years abroad — and then got stuck behind Bolivia’s closed borders as the virus spread
By Marissa Newman
A Peruvian army soldier patrols close to a hotel in Lima on March 16, 2020, one day after President Martin Vizcarra announced a State of Emergency and a two-week nationwide home-stay quarantine together with the closure of all borders to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Cris Bouroncle / AFP)
March 17, 2020, 12:31 pm
Foreign Ministry to help Israelis stranded in Peru after border closure
Thousands of citizens believed to be in South America, where several countries have enacted travel bans and flight suspensions
By ToI Staff
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