Latin America

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 15:59 UTC

  No same-sex marriage for now in Cuba's constitutional reform bill

  

  The writers of Cuba's constitutional reform bill have yielded “to popular demand” and stricken out the paragraph establishing marriage between two people of any sex from the proposed Article 68 and which would have opened the door to same-sex marriage, State Council Secretary Homero Acosta announced.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 14:30 UTC

  Macri urges Mercosur to take action against “Venezuelan dictatorship”

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri Tuesday launched an appeal in Montevideo to find solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and called for the “return of democracy” in that country. He delivered that speech during the Mercosur summit where he is to take up the bloc's rotating presidency from host Tabaré Vázquez.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Latin American markets and currencies cautious ahead of Fed's two-day meeting

  

  Latin American currencies failed to gain against a weak dollar on Tuesday, as cautious investors pared exposure ahead of the end of the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day meeting on Wednesday, while Latin American stocks ticked up in line with their U.S. peers.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  Bolivia offers to join Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay 2030 World Cup bid

  

  Bolivia’s football-mad President Evo Morales has offered his Argentine, Uruguayan and Paraguayan counterparts help in their joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
  Morales made the offer to the equally passionate presidents, Mauricio Macri of Argentina, Uruguay’s Tabare Vazquez and Paraguayan Mario Abdo Benitez during regional Mercosur heads of state meeting in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 14:15 UTC

  Colombia had no reason to fear Russian bombers in Venezuela, ambassador says

  

  Russia’s Ambassador to Caracas Monday said the presence in Venezuela of Tupolev 160 bombers from his country should be no grounds for concern in Colombia as some reports seemed ti have indicated.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 13:03 UTC

  Peru receives 395,000 applications from Venezuelan citizens to stay, work and study

  

  Around 395,000 Venezuelans have applied for a Temporary Stay Permit (PTP) in Peru, National Migration Superintendent Roxana del Aguila announced Monday.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  Mexico new government first budget committed “to fiscal and financial discipline”

  

  Mexico’s new government avoided major surprises in its closely watched first budget, sticking to promises made to investors who have been jittery about plans for Latin America’s No. 2 economy.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  US wins “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling legal battle against Mexico at WTO

  

  The United States won a legal battle over “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling on Friday, when the World Trade Organization’s appeals judges dismissed Mexico’s argument that the U.S. labeling rules violated WTO rules

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  García Márquez relative rescued from kidnappers in Colombia after 3 months

  

  Melissa Martínez García, a relative of the late Nobel Literature Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been freed after being kidnapped and held for ransom for over three months, Colombian authorities announced Monday.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 07:48 UTC

  Evo to attend Bolsonaro's inauguration in Brasilia Jan. 1

  

  Bolivia's President Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, on January 1 in Brasilia, Foreign Minister Diego Pary announced Monday.