Latin America

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 21:17 UTC

  Tourists are cashing in on Argentina’s economic woes

  

  International travelers are flocking to Argentina, taking advantage of the poorly performing peso to boost the value of their holiday spending money, according to latest data.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Venezuela ships a million barrels of oil to Cuba despite US sanctions

  

  Venezuela's state-run PDVSA has shipped one million barrels of oil to Cuba days after the United States imposed fresh sanctions on vessels and firms involved in exports to the island in an effort to halt oil trade between the political allies, according to a PDVSA document and tanker tracking data.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 23:59 UTC

  UN warns that Julian Assange would face serious violations of human rights in the US

  

  For the United Nations (UN), the United Kingdom arrested “arbitrarily” WikiLeaks’s co-founder, Julian Assange, on Thursday and warned that by allowing his arrest, Ecuador has put the Australian journalist at risk of being extradited to the United States, “Exposing him to the risk of serious violations of human rights.”

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 22:25 UTC

  Assange arrested in London after Ecuadorean asylum is revoked; agreement not to extradite him to US

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police and carried out of the Ecuadorean embassy on Thursday after his South American hosts abruptly revoked his seven-year asylum, paving the way for his possible extradition to the United States.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 15:58 UTC

  Uruguay: ANTEL, Nokia Complete First 5G Commercial Network in Latin America

  

  As 5G rollout continues to accelerate, three more announcements have been made, beginning with the news that Nokia and ANTEL, the Uruguayan state-owned operator, have successfully completed the installation of the first 5G commercial network in Latin America.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Cuba ratifies support for its ally Venezuela, “despite US blackmail”

  

  Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro said on Wednesday Cuba would never abandon its ally Venezuela despite US “blackmail”, even as the Trump administration threatened more sanctions over its support.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Venezuelan Assembly representative takes his post at OAS

  

  The new Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the Organization of American States (OAS), Gustavo Tarre, on Wednesday presented his credentials to the Secretary General of the hemispheric institution, Luis Almagro.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 07:22 UTC

  Peru intent in promoting Machu Picchu and the Cusco region

  

  The Executive Branch of the Government of Peru is working on a land management proposal for Machu Picchu said Prime Minister Salvador del Solar in order to increase the number of tourists to the Inca citadel in the Cusco region while also improving the experience and enhancing the impact of tourism in the region.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  US-Mexico border stricter controls hitting the highly integrated US auto industry

  

  Long delays at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing for goods destined for American plants and consumers are hitting the U.S. auto industry, and the gridlock reduced by half the number of northbound trucks that crossed the entry point last week.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Florencia Kirchner's lawyer presented her medical history and address in Cuba

  

  The defense of Florencia Kirchner presented before the Federal Oral Court 5 in charge of the “Los Sauces” case, her complete medical record and her residence address in Cuba on Monday, as requested by the Argentine Justice.