Latin America

• Wednesday, January 16th 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  Massive organized fuel theft in Mexico, denounces Lopez Obrador

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that widespread fuel theft extended to oil drilling platforms and he pledged to take actions to alleviate shortages sparked by his crackdown on gasoline thieves.

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

  Colombia working on a (conservative) replacement for Unasur

  

  Colombian President Ivan Duque said he is talking with like-minded conservative leaders to create a regional bloc that would replace the Venezuelan-influenced Union of South American Nations, Unasur.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Peru establishes an annual Patagonian toothfish TAC of 161 tons

  

  The Peruvian Ministry of Production has established the maximum allowable catch of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) resource for the current year at 161 tones. According to ministerial Resolution 007/2019, the quota may be modified if the Institute of the Sea Peru has proven evidence of greater availability of the resource, for which purpose it shall remit the recommendation with the corresponding measures to the Production ministry.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Italian political militant at large for years extradited from Bolivia/Brazil to Rome

  

  An Italian former communist militant captured in Bolivia is on a plane back to Rome, officials have confirmed. Cesare Battisti, 64, is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing. He was extradited after being found in Santa Cruz de La Sierra in an international police operation.

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 21:16 UTC

  Mexico's crackdown on fuel theft generates supply shortfalls

  

  Gasoline shortages in Mexico sparked by a crackdown on fuel theft prompted warnings from business leaders that industries like car making will suffer if the shortfalls persist as lines at gas stations in the capital grew during the week.

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:43 UTC

  Trump campaigns for The Wall, steel or concrete, along the Mexican border

  

  President Donald Trump warned of murderers and gangsters spreading across the country during a visit to the US-Mexican border on Thursday to push his demand for a multi-billion dollar wall. Trump used the backdrop of the Rio Grande border river at McAllen, Texas, to ramp up what has already turned into a hugely messy political fight with Democratic opponents, resulting in the shutdown of swaths of the US government.

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:29 UTC

  Argentina only recognizes Venezuela's National Assembly; bans entry to Maduro regime top officials

  

  Argentina announced it does not recognize the legitimacy of the mandate initiated on 10 January by Nicolas Maduro, condemns the breakdown of constitutional order and rule of the law, and ratifies full recognition of the National Assembly as the only democratically elected branch of government in Venezuela.

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Maduro sworn as president but most of the Americas reject his legitimacy

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn into a second term on Thursday amid international calls for him to step down, a devastating economic crisis and growing diplomatic isolation.

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 10:03 UTC

  Claims of Uruguayan ruling coalition involvement in money laundering with Chavista regimes

  

  Uruguay and Bolivia will be the only South American countries attending this Thursday the inauguration of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro for a second five year mandate. A regime which has become an increasingly international pariah for its non democratic practices, human rights abuses, and disastrous management of the economy creating a major humanitarian crisis with food and essential pharmaceutical shortages while some three million of Venezuelans have fled the country in desperation.

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Maduro threatens the “Lima Cartel” with the most crude and energetic diplomatic measures

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday warned he could take “diplomatic measures” against Latin American nations that signed a statement last week describing his second term, which starts on Thursday, as illegitimate.