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Montevideo, April 26th 2024 - 15:33 UTC

Tag: Alicia Bárcena

  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

    Mexico to bring Quito Embassy case before the ICJ

    Our diplomatic staff returns home with their heads held high, Bárcena posted on X

    After successfully pulling out of Ecuador all 18 members of its diplomatic mission following the breakup after Quito's unlawful actions at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Sunday that a case would be filed before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (The Netherlands) first thing Monday.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

    No diplomatic rift between Argentina and Mexico despite verbal clash between Milei and AMLO

    Mondino and Bárcena agreed that things would not escalate

    Foreign Ministries Diana Mondino of Argentina and Alicia Bárcena of Mexico held a telephone conversation Friday during which they concurred that the recent exchange of epithets between Presidents Javier Milei and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) did not jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations, which they agreed to label as “solid.” Bárcena and Mondino thus made it clear that neither nation intended to escalate the dispute.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 09:20 UTC

    AMLO picks former ECLAC boss for FM post

    Bárcena was the first woman to head the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday announced he had picked former Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena as the country's next foreign minister following the resignation of Marcelo Ebrard to devote himself to his electoral run.

  • Monday, September 5th 2022 - 18:07 UTC

    ECLAC's new boss appointed

    Salazar was described as being an enthusiast for public policy and economic developments.

    Costa Rican economist José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs has been chosen to replace Mexican diplomat Alicia Bárcena at the helm of the ECLAC after 14 years on the job, it was announced. Salazar took the oath of office before UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

  • Friday, December 10th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

    Latin America's exports this year to increase 8% in volume and 17% in value, ECLAC report

    The figures and estimates are included in ECLAC's International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, announced by Alicia Bárcena.

    The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates a 25% increase in the value of regional goods exports during 2021, following a 10% drop in 2020, driven by a 17% rise in export prices and an 8% expansion in the volume of shipments.

  • Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

    PAHO/ECLAC report on Covid-19 exposes the fragility of Latin America's health systems

    The health crisis report and its impacts on the economy and social development was presented Carissa F. Etienne, PAHO Director, ECLAC's Alicia Bárcena

    In n a new joint report released the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) urge the governments of the region to accelerate vaccination processes and improve health systems.

  • Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 09:54 UTC

    Latin America and Caribbean expected to grow 5.9% in 2021, ECLAC says

    “Countries need to complement domestic resources with greater access to international liquidity,” Bárcena said

    A new “Economic Study of Latin America and the Caribbean” report released Tuesday by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) raised its growth forecast for the region from 5.2% in July to 5.9%.

  • Friday, August 6th 2021 - 07:34 UTC

    Latin America and Caribbean FDI in 2020 was the lowest since 2010, ECLAC annual report

    Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC head said that in 2020, flows of Latin American transnational enterprises (known as trans-Latins) also plunged (73%)

    Latin America and the Caribbean received US$105.48 billion in Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, in 2020 – 34.7% less than in 2019, 51% less than the record high achieved in 2012, and the lowest since 2010, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicated during the presentation of the annual “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2021”

  • Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:36 UTC

    South America expected to grow 0.2% in 2019, forecasts CEPAL

    “We've had five years of economic slowdown, this is hugely worrying,” added Barcena while presenting the report in Santiago.

    Hit by five years of “economic slowdown,” Latin America's economy will grow by barely 0.5% this year, the United Nations economic commission for the region said on Wednesday, well below the 1.3% projected in April.

  • Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:04 UTC

    Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launches collaboration network in Chile

    UK Ambassador Jamie Bowden with speakers of the Seminar organized to mark the collaboration network launched in Chile

    A group of UK experts visited Santiago during March 2019 to inaugurate a fintech collaboration network with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latina America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC). This was an outcome of an intense agenda of activities carried out in Chile last October by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, (CCAF).

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