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Montevideo, December 27th 2025 - 02:08 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

    Colombia renews flexible credit line of US$ 11.4bn with IMF

    Mitsuhiro Furusawa, chair of IMF executive board, says that Colombia’s international reserves are “adequate for normal times”

    In a continuation of a previous arrangement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Colombia for a flexible credit line of US$ 11.4 billion. The new two-year arrangement replaces the pre-existing credit line, which has now been cancelled. Colombia will continue to see the funds as precautionary to be used only in if economic conditions worsen due to an external shock or other emergency, according to the IMF.

  • Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

    Heathrow with less connections to Latin America than major European hubs

    There are 25 countries and 41 airports across Central and South America, plus the Caribbean, with links to major European hubs, but none to London Heathrow

    London Heathrow is connected to fewer Latin American country markets and individual destinations than all of the other major European hubs. That’s the conclusion from the analysis of which airports are missing from Heathrow’s route network in the lead-up to the anna.aero-RABA Heathrow HubLAB Conference in London on 12 June.

  • Monday, June 4th 2018 - 06:47 UTC

    Over half of Mexican voters express support for Lopez Obrador

    Lopez Obrador is riding a wave of anger against the ruling party amid rising violence, corruption scandals and sluggish growth.

    With less than a month before Mexico’s presidential election, more than half of voters support leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a survey showed, while they pulled support from the poll leader’s main rival following attacks on his honesty.

  • Saturday, June 2nd 2018 - 08:09 UTC

    Nicaragua's husband-wife team ready to fall: end of the road for the Ortegas

    The protests by now have left 90 people dead and almost a thousand injured. The great majority of victims are students, and others shot by the police

    By Gwynne Dyer (*) - From the Ceausescus in Romania (overthrown and shot 1989) to the Mugabes (removed in a non-violent military coup 2017), husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a particularly high casualty rate. And now it may be the turn of the Nicaraguan team: President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo.

  • Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:35 UTC

    Guyana on the global energy map: oil production expected to reach 600.000bpd

    “ExxonMobil's discovery of the Liza field in 2015 truly put Guyana on the global energy map,” said Espen Erlingsen, head of upstream research at Rystad Energy.

    The Norwegian oil and gas research firm Rystad Energy is predicting that Guyana's oil sector could generate annual revenue of US$15 billion and that the government would pocket most of the profit generated from the explorations.

  • Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 06:28 UTC

    We have neglected Latin America's realms of gold for too long - Brexit can change that

    Boris Johnson: If we get it right, the opportunities are vast

    By Boris Johnson (*) The Foreign Secretary writes in the Telegraph about his recent trip to Latin America, and the unique opportunities the region presents for the UK. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen – 67, to be exact, since I have been Foreign Secretary.

  • Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

    Bolivia's president Evo Morales faces increasing students and opposition unrest

    The protests come at a difficult time for President Evo Morales, who has been president for 13 years, and his popularity has fallen amid corruption scandals

    Thousands of protesters took to the streets of several cities across Bolivia on Monday to demand justice after a university student was killed during a demonstration last week. Some of the protesters clashed with police in the central city of Cochabamba. Authorities did not immediately report injuries or arrests.

  • Monday, May 28th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

    Colombian election: clear cut right and left candidates will dispute the 17 June runoff

    A favorite from the start, Uribe’s protégé Ivan Duque, as expected managed the highest number of supporters, with over 7 million, or 39% of the votes.

    Colombia’s left and right will be holding a runoff to compete for the presidency in June after hard-line conservative Ivan Duque and ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro scooped most of the votes in the first round of Sunday elections.<br />
    The second vote will take place on June 17, which could see Colombia's already fragile peace deal with the FARC guerrillas shaken.

  • Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

    Colombia's presidential election: another referendum on the peace deal?

    The latest opinion polls released had Duque with an eleven percentage points lead. If no candidate gets a majority on May 27, a runoff vote will be held on June 17.

    On Sunday, Colombians will head to the polls to elect a new president. At play in this year’s election are a range of issues: Venezuelan migration, economic situation, rampant corruption, high levels of inequality, but above all is the country's historic peace accord that ended over half a century of armed conflict.

  • Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

    Colombia invited to join OECD; third Latin American member with Mexico and Chile

    “The accession of Colombia will contribute to our efforts to transform OECD into a more diverse and inclusive institution”, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced on Friday that Colombia would be officially invited to join the group. The Paris-based economic organization was founded in 1961 and has traditionally included industrialized nations, though in recent years it has extended its membership to emerging economies.