Latin America
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:31:00 GMTLatin America up for increasingly worsening weather
The consequences of climate change will continue to worsen in Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting health, development, and food supplies, according to a report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) releas...
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:28:00 GMTPeru: Case against Castillo reopened despite immunity
Peruvian judiciary authorities have launched the fifth active inquest into President Pedro Castillo Terrones' alleged involvement in acts of corruption, it was announced Friday in Lima, after Prosecutor Patricia Benavides reope...
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:27:00 GMTBrazil of Hope alliance makes Lula's candidacy official
A coalition including the Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil Thursday launched the presidential ticket of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin for the October 2 elections, where incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro is the ma...
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:20:00 GMTUruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement
The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration ne...
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:46:00 GMTBolivian railroad seeks to boost region's global trade capabilities
Bolivia's Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta Wednesday highlighted his country's Bioceanic Integration Railway Corridor (CFBI), which seeks to link the Brazilian port of Santos with Ilo in Peru to further develop the region's trade...
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 08:28:00 GMTCollege-like education program launched for teachers of Guarani
Education authorities in the Argentine province of Corrientes Wednesday launched a variety of Guarani programs whereby students can get various college-type degrees for the teaching of the ancestral language.
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:39:00 GMTEU eyes CELAC for food; Mercosur “a more complicated issue”
Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, has said Latin America would host a CELAC meeting sometime next year, but admitted that ratifying the 2019 trade agreement with Mercosur was “a more complicated issue.”
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:43:00 GMTCubans to keep enduring power cuts in blazing summer
The electricity supply in Cuba's capital city is showing increasingly recurrent cuts as the aging power plants seem to be reaching their point of technical exhaustion.
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:07:00 GMTArgentines dump their currency in northern provinces and trade with Bolivian money
With the Argentine economy in shambles, inflation out of control heading for hyper inflation, daily increases of prices, and new clamps to have access to some strong currency, --such as the US dollar, which Argentines love--, a...
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:19:00 GMTPetro wants FTA with US repenned
Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro and US Ambassador to Bogotá Francisco Palmieri met Monday to discuss common goals with the incoming administration which might include renegotiating the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signe...