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Montevideo, December 27th 2025 - 05:43 UTC

Latin America

  • Sunday, April 8th 2018 - 06:43 UTC

    Lula in prison in Curitiba. Fiery-emotional speech to supporters before turning in

    Ever since Wednesday, Lula and his supporters tried everything to delay the start of his prison sentence, battling everywhere from the Supreme Court to the streets.

    Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in Saturday to start a 12-year sentence for corruption after a chaotic attempt by supporters to stop him from surrendering. Surrounded by bodyguards, Lula had to push through a seething throng of supporters to get into a police vehicle outside the metalworkers' union building in Sao Bernardo do Campo, where he had been holed up for two days and nights.

  • Sunday, April 8th 2018 - 06:40 UTC

    UK present at Latin America's Air and Space Fair held in Santiago

    Alexis Hammer, Regional Director for DIT DSO, leads the UK presence at Fidae supported by Air Vice Marshal Nigel Maddox the Senior Military Adviser

    The 20th Air and Space Fair (Fidae), the most important aviation event in Latin America, kicked off in Chile on Tuesday with a participation of more than 50 exhibitors and about 120 civil and military aircraft. FIDAE, a biennial international air show held in Santiago, Chile, is the largest aerospace and defense fair in Latin America. More than 120,000 attendees are expected to attend during the six days display.

  • Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

    Milestone Colombian ruling orders the government urgent protection of Amazon rainforest

    In the ruling judges said that Colombia, with a swathe of rainforest roughly the size of Germany and England, saw deforestation rates in its Amazon region skyrocket

    Colombia’s highest court has told the government it must take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what campaigners said was an historic moment that should help conserve forests and counter climate change.

  • Friday, April 6th 2018 - 19:47 UTC

    Regaining citizens’ trust in public institutions is key to resuming inclusive growth and well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The report notes that trust in public institutions declined and satisfaction with public services has deteriorated, eroding the social contract in the region.

    Brussels, 09 April 2018 - Three out of four Latin Americans today show little or no confidence in their national governments. Around 80% think corruption is widespread. These levels are both up from 55% and 67% respectively in 2010. Mistrust is rising as in most regions of the world and risks deepening the disconnect between people and public institutions, harming social cohesion and weakening the social contract. Reconnecting public institutions with citizens by better responding to their demands is thus critical for strengthening growth and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and for the well-being of the region’s citizens, according to the Latin American Economic Outlook 2018, Rethinking Institutions for Development. The region needs more transparent, capable, credible and innovative institutions if it wants to put itself on a higher and more inclusive development trajectory.

  • Friday, April 6th 2018 - 16:23 UTC

    Lula resists arrest deadline waiting for last minute habeas corpus filed at an appeals court

    Lula spent the night at the São Bernardo do Campo Metalworker's Union in the company of his sons, friends and party leaders

    Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told Folha de Sao Paulo early Friday that he has decided not to turn himself at the Federal Police in Curitiba where he must serve a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, as ordered by judge Sergio Moro.

  • Friday, April 6th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

    Trump will take his confrontation with China to the Summit of the Americas

    Trump is expected to argue that China’s trade policies had “not been productive for the hemisphere and that the United States should remain the partner of choice”

    United States President Donald Trump, engaged in an escalating confrontation with Beijing over trade, will urge Latin American leaders next week to work with the United States – not China – on trade, a senior US official said on Thursday. Trump’s trip to Lima, Peru, for the Summit of the Americas has been prefaced by aggressive moves on trade and immigration.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 19:06 UTC

    Argentine Jewish community honors first woman submariner, who remains missing in the Atlantic

    Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic

    The first female submarine officer in Argentina, who remains missing in the Atlantic Ocean, was honored by the country’s Jewish community on International Women’s Month. Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic four months after it fell off the radar with a one week supply of oxygen on board.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 07:25 UTC

    Bolivia shaken by 6.6 magnitude earthquake also felt in Brasilia and Sao Paulo

    In Bolivia, the quake shook tall buildings, but no damage or injuries had been reported about two hours after the initial shake

    An earthquake of at least 6.6 magnitude shook Bolivia early on Monday, causing no damage or injuries but driving people out of office buildings as far away as Brasilia and Sao Paulo in neighboring Brazil, officials said.

  • Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 19:12 UTC

    Trump doesn't care about Latin America, Lula tells Correa

    “It's becoming more and more clear each day that the US doesn't want Latin America to be strong,” Lula claimed.

    Former Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, better or simply known as Lula, said Donald Trump “doesn't care about Latin America in the least and added that ”Bush and Condoleezza Rice pursued a much more democratic policy towards Brazil than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” In his view, Obama could give magnificent speeches, but never actually delivered.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 02:37 UTC

    US to process immigration of Cubans at Guyana embassy

    The American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana, the new stop for Cubans vying to emigrate into the United States.

    The United States will shift the processing of immigration visas for Cuban nationals from Colombia to Guyana starting April 1, the State Department announced. Immigrant visa applications and interviews with Cuban citizens will be conducted and processed at the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana.