South America
South America
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:41:00 GMTInvestment banks warn the Venezuela deal will not bring down fuel prices
Leading financial analysis firms have tempered the White House's forecasts on the Venezuelan oil agreement announced by Donald Trump on Friday, which grants a company part-owned by the US government control of seventeen fields ...
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:11:00 GMTLenín Moreno and a former Chinese ambassador convicted over bribes at Ecuador's largest dam
A court of Ecuador's National Court of Justice on Friday sentenced former president Lenín Moreno to five years in prison for bribery, in the case over kickbacks linked to the construction and financing of the Coca Codo Sinclai...
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:22:00 GMTChina's embassy accuses a senior Argentine official of spreading “rumours” about the Nepal flood
China's embassy in Buenos Aires has accused an official in Javier Milei's government of spreading “malicious rumours” and seeking to “stain the international image” of the Asian country, after he attributed to a Chinese...
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMTTrump says Venezuela is “not ready” to hold elections and sets no timetable
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Venezuela does not yet meet the conditions to call elections, five days after announcing the agreement granting Washington majority control over a fifth of the country's oil rese...
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:56:00 GMTA Brazilian Supreme Court justice lifts secrecy on a banker's messages to another judge
Brazilian Supreme Court justice André Mendonça, rapporteur in the Banco Master case, on Tuesday lifted the secrecy order on a Federal Police report of more than two hundred pages containing messages sent by businessman Daniel...