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Montevideo, April 2nd 2025 - 01:44 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, January 30th 2023 - 11:14 UTC

    LATAM's finances expected to recover in 2023 with passenger and cargo growth

    In November LATAM announced the completion of a years-long restructuring process in the US after it declared bankruptcy in 2020 due to the worldwide travel slowdown

    South America's largest carrier, LATAM expects double digit revenue growth this year, according to a company guidance to stock markets. The Chile-based airline's revenues are expected to reach between US$ 11 billion and US$ 11.5 billion by the end of this year, compared to US$ 9.5 billion estimated for 2022, which if achieved would mark an increase of nearly 16% to 21%.

  • Monday, January 30th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    Peru's Congress rejects moving elections forward

    Boluarte urged lawmakers to “put their partisan interests aside and place the interests of Peru above all else”

    Peru's one-house Congress Saturday voted against President Dina Boluarte's request about bringing forward the elections to December this year, which is one of the demands of the neverending protests nationwide that have erupted since her accession to power following Pedro Castillo Terrones' impeachment.

  • Saturday, January 28th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    IACHR team rounds up Bolivian assignment

    The detention of Santa Cruz governor Camacho was among the subjects brought to the attention of the IACHR delegation

    An Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) team rounded up its mission in Bolivia on Friday after being told that the government abode by its recommendations issued after the political crisis of 2019. The visiting delegation also collected testimony from the victims claiming otherwise.

  • Saturday, January 28th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte favors moving elections forward, perhaps this year

    “I'm here because I took on a responsibility and will be here until Congress sets a date. That's why I ask: Come to an agreement,” Boluarte stressed

    Peruvian President Dina Boluarte said Friday that she did not oppose bringing forward the elections, which is one of the demands of the demonstrators that have marched all across the country since the impeachment of former President Pedro Castillo Terrones on Dec. 7.

  • Friday, January 27th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    Evo declared “persona non grata” by Peru's Congress

    The new measure adds to Evo's ban on entering Peru and the stripping of a Congressional medal

    Peru's Congress Thursday declared former Bolivian President Evo Morales “persona non grata” by 74 votes in favor, 40 against, and 4 abstentions, for his alleged meddling in internal affairs.

  • Thursday, January 26th 2023 - 18:06 UTC

    Díaz-Canel visits Maduro on his way back home from Celac Summit

    “It is always comforting to return to the Homeland of Bolivar and Chavez,” Díaz-Canel told

    Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Thursday said his meeting the day before with his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro was highly successful. Díaz-Canel made a stop on his way back from the VII Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) Summit in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, January 26th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Peru: Boluarte asks for multinational endorsement to early elections

    “The stability of the country is at stake,” Boluarte told the OAS

    Peruvian President Dina Boluarte Wednesday asked the international community to endorse the holding of early elections in Peru, which she had already entrusted Congress with devising. She also said every possible solution should be within constitutional boundaries.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

    Lacalle warns Celac about “ideological temptation”

    “There are countries here that do not respect democracy, institutions, or human rights,” Lacalle also said in an obvious reference to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday warned against the “ideological temptation in international forums.” During his speech at the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Buenos Aires, he explained that when ideologies change “the forums fade away.”

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 09:35 UTC

    “Comrade” Ralph Gonsalves becomes new Celac pro tempore president

    “That a small country presides over Celac, and to be elected by my colleagues, is very important,” the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines said

    Upon closing the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Buenos Aires, Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday handed over the pro tempore presidency of the forum to the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Everard Gonsalves, who is notorious for his closeness to the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and also Nicaragua.

  • Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 08:51 UTC

    Ecuador: Anticorruption secretary resigns amid growing scandal

    The fact that a former official has fallen “into the temptation of earning ill-gotten money” cannot be generalized, Lasso insisted

    Luis Verdesoto Monday turned in his resignation as Secretary of Anticorruption Public Policy amid growing allegations of corruption in Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso's entourage.