Latin America

Friday, November 1st 2013 - 21:36 UTC
Dollar-short Venezuela creates new exchange rate system for arriving tourists

Venezuela will create a new exchange rate for tourists to buy up to US$10,000 of the local Bolivar currency per year in a measure intended to help reduce black market trading, the government said in its official gazette.
Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:59 UTC
Argentina will again be 'a normal country', when Cristina Fernandez is out of the political stage

Uruguayan former president Jorge Batlle (2000/2005) said on Facebook that Argentina will again “be a normal country” when President Cristina Fernandez “disappears from the political stage”. And when this happens “the Argentines are going to be happier and as a consequence so will we”.
Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:40 UTC
IMF warns about global slowdown and appeals to Latam governments' prudence

The Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Western Hemisphere Division, Alejandro Werner, says Latin American and Caribbean economies are well placed to once again sustain relatively high growth rates.
Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:31 UTC
Malvinas' flagged vessels ideological solidarity with Argentina costs Uruguay lost jobs and income

To the loss of transshipments from Argentina, estimated in 100 million dollars a year by Montevideo port authorities, must be added the 60 million dollars following the ban on Falklands' flagged vessels from operating in Uruguay, claimed Mario Baubeta, president of Uruguay's Navigation Centre.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 21:35 UTC
Mercosur calls special meeting in November to consolidate trade proposal before the EU

Mercosur will be holding a special meeting of foreign ministers next 15 November in Caracas to consolidate “Mercosur presentation before the European Union”, according to a release from the Argentine Foreign ministry.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:52 UTC
Argentina celebrates 30 years of democracy and free elections in 1983, 16 months after defeat in Malvinas

Argentina is recalling with different acts and commemoration ceremonies the thirty years since the return of democracy when Raul Alfonsin was elected president of Argentina. On October 30 1983, and after a long recount of votes, Alfonsín's Radical Civic Union (UCR) secured a landmark victory over the Peronist Justicialist Party.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:29 UTC
Washington pledges not to spy on UN communications system

The United Nations said that the United States has pledged not to spy on the world body's communications after a report that the National Security Agency had gained access to the UN video conferencing system.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 19:30 UTC
Chinese navy vessels call in Buenos Aires for the first time part of a South American tour

Vessels from China's Popular Liberation Navy docked for the first time in Buenos Aires in the framework of a South American tour that includes Chile and Brazil. The lead ship is destroyer Lanzhou with missile capability, the frigate Liuzhou and the support vessel Boyanghou, all active with the China's South Sea Fleet.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 18:39 UTC
A Pope, two presidents, a businessman and a drug baron, the Latin-Americans that made it to Forbes list

Pope Francis ranks as the fourth most powerful person in the world and the most powerful Latin-American, according to Forbes’ annual Most Powerful in the World List which this year had Russian President Vladimir Putin ranked number one ahead of President Barack Obama and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping, number three.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 17:52 UTC
Brazilian government trying to establish dialogue with anarchist group “Black Bloc”

The Brazilian government is trying to establish a dialogue with the anarchist group identifies as “Black Bloc” which has been made responsible by the police for the outbreak of violence and vandalism in the ongoing protests in the country, said the Executive Office Secretary General Gilberto Carvalho.