Latin America

Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 10:56 UTC
Bioceanic Road Corridor moving forward through Paraguay

The construction of the Bioceanic Road Corridor in Paraguay is progressing, with a major emphasis on sustainability, particularly in Section 3 of Route PY15. This key highway project, which will connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is a significant part of Paraguay's plan to become a logistical hub for the Central Chaco region.
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Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 10:45 UTC
Indefinite reelection in El Salvador opens door to dictator in the making

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is anything but worried about being called a “dictator,” especially after 57 of his loyal lawmakers passed a reform in a 60-seat Congress approving his potential indefinite reelection, which critics view as the possible consolidation of an “autocratic” regime in the country.
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Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 10:28 UTC
Bolivian mine landslide leaves 5 dead

Five men died after being buried alive by a landslide at the state-owned Amayapampa gold mine in Potosí, Bolivia. The victims, who were not regular employees, had official permits to extract residual ore.
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Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 07:16 UTC
Uribe lashes out against court ruling: “They want to destroy a voice of democratic opposition”

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez appealed on Friday the ruling that sentenced him to 12 years of house arrest for procedural fraud and witness tampering, delivering a fiery speech in which he described the decision as a “political move” aimed at silencing “democratic opposition.”
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Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 09:25 UTC
TikToker rattles Bolivia's financial system

Twenty-one-year-old TikToker Juan Carlos Villafuerte was arrested for allegedly damaging the credibility of Bolivia's system after the Financial System Supervisory Authority (ASFI) filed a complaint against him for creating videos that claimed “banks in Bolivia are in danger” and advised people to withdraw their savings.
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Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 08:48 UTC
Group of Friends of Haiti discusses next steps at OAS

Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Albert Ramdin convened the first meeting of the Group of Friends of Haiti in Washington DC on Wednesday. This group serves as an informal platform for information sharing among stakeholders regarding the evolving situation in Haiti, aiming to improve coordination and alignment of efforts.
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Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 10:05 UTC
Products not grown in US might have zero tariffs, Lutnick hints

Amid the uproar surrounding the 50% tariffs on Brazilian products to be imported by the US administration of President Donald Trump, coffee producers saw some light at the end of the tunnel Tuesday when US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in an interview with US network CNBC that some products not grown in the country could enter the United States without import tariffs.
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Tuesday, July 29th 2025 - 10:30 UTC
HSBC sells out operations in Uruguay to leading Brazilian bank

Brazilian bank BTG Pactual has acquired the Uruguayan operations of British bank HSBC for US$175 million, marking BTG Pactual's entry into Uruguay and HSBC's exit from the market as part of its global restructuring strategy. The deal, announced on Monday, includes both equity and additional capital instruments and is subject to regulatory approvals.
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Tuesday, July 29th 2025 - 10:29 UTC
World leaders express solidarity with Uribe

Many rightwing leaders expressed their solidarity with former Colombian President Álvaro Urive (73) after he was convicted of bribery and procedural fraud by a Bogotá court earlier Monday.
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Tuesday, July 29th 2025 - 01:25 UTC
Bogotá court finds Uribe guilty of bribery

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez was found guilty Monday of witness tampering and procedural fraud, making him the first former head of state in the country to be convicted of a crime. The 73-year-old right-wing politician, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was accused of attempting to bribe and pressure imprisoned paramilitaries to retract or alter their testimonies linking him to illegal armed groups.
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