Latin America

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 19:28 UTC

  Mexico launches bid to host 2036 Olympic Games

  

  Mexico has submitted a bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympic Games. If that option is not possible then the Latin American country is also open to being awarded the 2040 competition.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Uruguay successfully issues US$ 1,5 billion “green linked bond,” with US$ 3,96 billon demand

  

  On Friday October 20, Uruguay issued its first sustainability-linked bonds (SLB), with a step-down mechanism that is activated if it reaches certain environmental targets. The purpose is to align the country’s sovereign debt policy with its climate goals by issuing a bond that links the coupon to compliance with the climate and environmental goals that the country set in its first Naturally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad Tobago, Uruguay teams, winners of IDB Development Initiative

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the four winners of the fifth Superheroes of Development contest, which rewards creative and innovative solutions used in development projects financed by the IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab (IDB Group) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  CELAC FMs call for joint connection with the rest of the world

  

  Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires Wednesday issued a statement calling for the consolidation of regional unity while deepening strategies for joint approaches regarding the bloc's connection with the rest of the world.

• Thursday, October 27th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  All COVID-19 restrictions lifted in Peru

  

  Peruvian health authorities Wednesday announced the lifting of the state of emergency declared amid the COVID-19 pandemic as well as all sanitary restrictions imposed thereby.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  ECLAC's 39th session gets underway in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Executive Secretary José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs Monday opened the United Nations agency's 39th session in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  One inmate dies in yet another prison riot in Ecuador

  

  At least one inmate was killed and two others were injured Monday in yet a new prison riot in Ecuador, the National Service of Integral Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) reported.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Moody's: Major devaluation of Mexican peso forecast

  

  According to the credit rating agency Moody's, a devaluation of around 20% of the Mexican peso against the US dollar would be imminent and might take place later this year or in early 2023, it was reported.

• Friday, October 21st 2022 - 20:47 UTC

  Costa Rica on brink of joining Pacific Alliance

  

  Costa Rica may soon be joining the Pacific Alliance after the organization's Council of Ministers Thursday approved the Central American country's request to begin negotiations to join the regional bloc, it was reported.

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Ecuador Legislative overwhelmingly votes in support of Argentina's claims

  

  Ecuador's one House Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday in support of Argentina and “its battle in defense of Malvinas, South Georgia, and South Sandwich Islands, and adjoining maritime and insular spaces”, which according to the Argentine ministry of foreign affairs, “are illegitimately occupied by the United Kingdom”.