Latin America

Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 21:54 UTC
Bolivia to change Hydrocarbons Law to increase gas output

Bolivia's Deputy Minister of Exploration and Exploitation Daniel Mayta Jiménez Tuesday said that following the discovery of the Margarita 10 well and in a move to foster investment and encourage production, the Hydrocarbons Law 3058 -enacted May 17, 2005- needed changing.
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 21:46 UTC
Two people needed hospitalization due to oil spill off Peru's shore

Two people have been hospitalized as a result of the effects of contaminated Pacific Ocean waters stemming from the Repsol oi spill off Callao, Peruvian authorities said Tuesday.
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:58 UTC
Argentine President already in Barbados for PM meeting

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday landed in Barbados for a meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Mia Mottley amid strong COVID-19 restrictions for reporters. It is the South American head of state's last stop of an international tour which included Russia and China.
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:53 UTC
Nicaragua decries El Salvador invaded its territorial waters

The Nicaraguan Government of President Daniel Ortega Monday decried military naval forces of El Salvador had violated its maritime spaces for reasons yet to be determined, since there is no bilateral territorial dispute between the two Central American countries.
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:48 UTC
Demonstrators in Haiti take to the streets, want PM to resign

Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Haiti Monday to demand Prime Minister Ariel Henry agrees to hold discussions regarding a possible solution to the country's critical situation.
Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron subvariant

Brazil's Fiocruz Institute Monday announced the first two cases of the BA.2 sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant had been detected in the country: one in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the State of Santa Catarina.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 20:26 UTC
A former president and a former finance minister reach Costa Rica's runoff

Former Costa Rican President José María Figueres of the National Liberation Party (center-right) Figueres won Sunday's first round of this year's elections but failed to secure a decisive majority, due to which he will need to take on former Finance Minister Rodrigo Chaves, of the Democratic Social Progress party (center) at the April 3 runoff.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:13 UTC
New gas well found in Bolivia, expected to generate millions of dollars

Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora has confirmed over the weekend the discovery of large gas reserves which -he hoped- would yield substantial profits to the country.
Sunday, February 6th 2022 - 19:49 UTC
Castillo embraces Conservative values, Bolsonaro says after meeting

Despite mounting opposition against each one of them in their own countries, Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and his Peruvian colleague Pedro Castillo Terrones met last week (Thursday) at the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondonia, after which both leaders said their differences were a thing of the past.
Sunday, February 6th 2022 - 19:32 UTC
Cuban official says ok to withhold surplus earnings of foreign company workers

Cuba's Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca has said in an interview with local current news magazine Bohemia last week that he saw a contradiction in workers of global companies earning more than those who did the same job for the local State.