Latin America

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 09:17 UTC

  Passports of 130 Venezuelan children deemed void - no Xmas family gathering for them

  

  The Venezuelan government, through the first prosecutor of Vargas state and officers of the Autonomic Service of Identification, Migration and Foreign Affairs prevented the leaving of 130 children for Peru, where they were to meet with their parents last December 15.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 10:05 UTC

  President Maduro “cries” for Argentina and pledges to work for the people

  

  The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned the repression carried out by the Argentine security forces of president Mauricio Macri during the debate in Congress of the pensions' reform system, and underlined that the television reports from Buenos Aires called on him to work ever harder for the benefit of the people.

• Wednesday, December 20th 2017 - 10:42 UTC

  Peru, “Best culinary destination” in the world for the sixth year running

  

  For the sixth consecutive year, Peru receives the recognition as ‘Best Culinary Destination’ in the world, while Machu Picchu was awarded as ‘Best Tourist Attraction’ by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA), held in Phu Quoc, Vietnam.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 13:35 UTC

  Russia again becomes main supplier of oil for Cuban refinery

  

  Venezuela has pulled out of a partnership with Cuba in its Cienfuegos oil refinery and the Caribbean island has taken full ownership of the plant, Cuban state media said. Venezuela is grappling with an economic crisis that already forced it to slash cheap oil shipments to Cuba, which has had a knock-on effect on the island’s ailing economy.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 11:39 UTC

  Morales insists in involving the Pope in the ongoing sea outlet dispute between Bolivia and Chile

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales implied in a Tweet that he and Pope Francis had discussed Bolivia’s territorial dispute with Chile during a meeting at the Vatican on December 15. According to the Vatican, the 30-minute private meeting “took place in a cordial atmosphere.”

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 09:22 UTC

  Mexican presidential candidate Lopez Obrador presents a moderate pragmatic cabinet

  

  The left leaning front-runner for Mexico’s 2018 presidential election proposed a moderate U.S.-trained economist for finance minister, unveiling a planned cabinet made up of men and women in equal measure.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:41 UTC

  Kuczynski appeals to an Odebrecht letter which says he was not in the “pay list”

  

  Brazilian builder Odebrecht said on Saturday that its recently-disclosed business ties to embattled Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski were not part of the corrupt deals it struck with politicians that it has acknowledged to prosecutors.

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:27 UTC

  Hernandez declared Honduras president; opposition leader off to Washington to denounce “fraud”

  

  Honduras’ electoral tribunal on Sunday declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the Nov. 26 presidential election, sparking fraud accusations and calls for renewed street protests after a bitterly disputed contest. Hernandez beat center-left challenger and TV star Salvador Nasralla by 1.53 percentage points, according to the official count.

• Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:19 UTC

  Hondurans take to the streets to demand proclamation of opposition leader as president

  

  Honduran protesters blocked roads and burned tires to press the authorities to cancel the election victory of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez and to proclaim opposition leader Salvador Nasralla the winner.

• Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 16:53 UTC

  Fallout from Odebrecht: Peruvian congress initiates proceedings to impeach president Kuczynski

  

  Lawmakers in Peru initiated proceedings to impeach President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who refuses to resign after being accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from a Brazilian company embroiled in Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal. In a brief session, 27 of 130 members of congress put forward a request to consider removing the former Wall Street banker for “permanent moral incapacity”. Lawmakers could summon Kuczynski to defend himself before congress as early as next week.