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Montevideo, April 26th 2025 - 08:50 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Pope welcomes Ecuadorian President, calls for no more deaths in Peru

    Lasso and Francis met for 50 minutes.

    The Argentine-born Pope Francis welcomed Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso at the Vatican during the weekend to discuss indigenous issues and other matters concerning South America. Last week, the Catholic leader also held a meeting with Paraguay's Mario Abdo Benítez.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 08:18 UTC

    Lula lands in BA to sign bilateral deals and attend Celac Summit

    Lula was welcomed by Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva landed Sunday shortly after 9 pm Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery to hold a series of state meetings with local authorities on Monday and attend the VII summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) on Tuesday.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 07:53 UTC

    Some 200 Peruvian protesters arrested for occupying university campus

    PNP troops evicted the demonstrators from the university campus

    Peruvian authorities have arrested some 200 demonstrators during the weekend after the March of the Four Suyos (Inca empire provinces) advanced on Lima -the so-called “Lima Takeover”- demanding President Dina Boluarte's resignation, in addition to fresh elections and a constituent assembly.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 07:12 UTC

    Bullrich asks DEA to arrest Maduro in Buenos Aires

    “Human Rights have no ideology; and not because you are a left-wing dictator, can you not respect them,” Bullrich said

    Argentina's opposition leader Patricia Bullrich, chairwoman of the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) party, a majority partner in the Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) alliance Sunday filed a request before the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro once he lands in Buenos Aires for the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    More protesters killed during Lima Takeover

    Boluarte insisted the protesters want to take over the country through violence

    The number of people killed after President Dina Boluarte took office early last month following the impeachment of Pedro Castillo Terrones, who had tried to dissolve Congress and ruled by decree, has reached 54 Thursday as demonstrators staged the so-called Lima Takeover in the Peruvian capital and clashes with law enforcement officers were reported in other parts of the violence-torn South American country.

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 19:46 UTC

    ECLAC sees great stress ahead for Latin America

    The 2020s look poised to become another lost decade for Latin America like the 1980s, Salazar-Xirinachs explained

    The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) foresees “great stress” and a “cascade of crises” including rampant inflation and increasing climate change that will affect the livelihoods of people in the region.

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 19:43 UTC

    Peruvian authorities up security measures as protesters march through Lima

    The situation in the country is so unstable that the state-run Peruvian Sports Institute decided to postpone the beginning of the local football tournament

    Over 11,000 law enforcement officers were deployed Thursday across Peru's capital and the nearby port of Callao as anti-government demonstrators were getting ready to stage the so-called Lima Takeover.

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Agricultural emergency, triggered by drought, extended for another 90 days in Uruguay

    So far in 2023, Uruguay's National Fire Department reported a considerable increase in the number of forest fires. Photo: Sebastián Astorga / MercoPress

    More than 60% of the Uruguayan territory is suffering from extreme or severe drought in the last three months, October 2022/January 2023, according to the Uruguayan Meteorological Institute, Inumet,

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

    Latin American exports lose momentum in 2022 and 2023, report by IDB Bank

    The region’s external sales were driven by shipments to the United States, which are estimated to have grown by 21.3% in 2022

    Latin America and the Caribbean value of goods exported during 2022 rose at an estimated 18.8% rate, which represents a downward trend in the region's commerce figures of some 27,8% when comparing 2021 with 2022, according to a report from the Inter American Development Bank, IDB.

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    Ecuadorian President skipping Celac Summit

    The presence of Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Nicolás Maduro among others is yet to be confirmed

    Less than a week before the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) Summit is to be held in Buenos Aires, the President of Ecuador announced he shall not be attending the event hosted by the country holding the pro-tempore presidency of the bloc.