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Montevideo, April 24th 2024 - 23:13 UTC

Tag: Latin America

  • Friday, April 5th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

    Brazilian markets react positively on hopes of progress on pension reform

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met fellow politicians in a bid to build support to pass his government's proposal to reform the country's bloated pension system

    Most Latin American stock markets and currencies rose on Thursday, with assets in Brazil gaining on hopes of smooth progress on pension reform. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met fellow politicians in a bid to build support to pass his government's proposal to reform the country's bloated pension system, seen by investors as crucial to trim Brazil's wide fiscal deficit.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

    NATO does not discard Latin American countries joining as alliance partners

    “Until 2017, NATO didn’t have any partners in Latin America and then in 2017 we got our first partner, which was Colombia,” the NATO leader said.

    NATO can look at the possibility of other Latin American states joining Colombia in becoming alliance partners, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, while appearing to rule out U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Brazil could one day become a full member of the North Atlantic security body.

  • Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 08:33 UTC

    Spanish bank cautious about Brexit but confident of solid growth in Latin America

    Though Brexit uncertainty is casting a shadow over Santander's third largest market, it expects solid growth in Latin America accounting for 43% of its profits

    Spanish bank Santander is expected to take a cautious stance on its British business in a strategy update on Wednesday, seeking to reassure investors after its aborted recruitment of former UBS banker Andrea Orcel as CEO.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 18:39 UTC

    Montevideo: The most expensive city and the best place to live in Latin America?

    Unlike the cities studied of the great neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, Montevideo (and Uruguay) stands out for the quality of its democracy and its relative economic stability

    The Uruguayan capital is the most expensive and the best to live in the region. At least that's what the studies of The Economist, which positioned Montevideo behind Mexico City in terms of cost, and the consultancy Mercer, which places the capital at the top of Latin American quality of life ranking, revealed in publications made this month. El País (Madrid) explains that Montevideo has a “crazy decadent charm”. However, why does this phenomenon occur?

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Colombia: The humanitarian situation worsened, alerted Red Cross

    The report indicates that Venezuelan migrants, as they pass through Colombia, are exposed to extortion and recruitment by various armed groups

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented on Thursday the balance of its main humanitarian concerns in Colombia, highlighting a deterioration of security conditions in the most remote areas of the country. The cases of armed conflicts and the violence that has continued to plague Colombia in recent decades, as well as the recent mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants, showed a complex humanitarian context.

  • Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

    Lopez Obrador urges Spain and the Vatican to apologize for abuses during the conquest; Madrid strongly rejects

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the indigenous peoples of Mexico had been the victims of massacres, and called for a full account of the abuses

    The Mexican president has sent a letter to Spain's King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for human rights abuses committed during the conquest of the region. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the indigenous peoples of Mexico had been the victims of massacres.

  • Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

    Mexico and Brazil agree on a free trade for light vehicles

    The agreement takes effect this week and the content requirement would be subject to current formulas for calculation, the Mexican ministry said in a statement

    Mexico’s government said it had reached an agreement with Brazil on the free trade of light vehicles, subject to a 40% regional content requirement, paving the way for more open commerce between Latin America’s two biggest economies.

  • Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

    Bolivia will host the World Travel Awards Latin American ceremony in June

    A fast emerging tourism destination, Bolivia is a country of incredible beauty, from luxury resorts on the shore of Lake Titicaca to the amazing salt flats of Uyuni (in Pic)

    World Travel Awards (WTA) has revealed that its Latin American Ceremony 2019 will be hosted in La Paz, Bolivia on 13th July 2019. The leading figureheads, decision-makers and influencers of Latin America’s travel and tourism industry are scheduled to attend the ceremony, which will mark WTA’s first visit to Bolivia.

  • Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

    Argentina and Brazil markets open Wednesday with steep losses

    Argentina's Merval index as well as its peso led declines across the board on private purchases of U.S. dollars in the face of high inflation

    Latin American stocks hovered near 2019 lows on Wednesday led by steep losses in Argentina and Brazil which resumed trading after a two-day Carnival holiday, while currencies of oil exporters in the region fell as crude prices came under pressure. MSCI's index of Latin American stocks fell 1.3%, tracking losses across the region, barring Chile and Colombia which ended higher.

  • Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

    Guaidó arrives to Brasilia as part of a continental tour

    Guaido arrived in Brasilia for a two-day visit from Bogota, where he had attended a meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence and the regional Lima group

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido arrived in Brazil on Wednesday night to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a tour of several nations to drum up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down.