Latin America

Thursday, January 5th 2023 - 10:12 UTC
Protests and road blockades resume in Peru

Peruvian demonstrators went back to blocking roads and staging other protests nationwide over the impeachment of former President Pedro Castillo Terrones, after which 28 people have been killed.
Thursday, January 5th 2023 - 10:00 UTC
No truce with ELN, Colombian gov't now says

Colombia's government Wednesday announced it was suspending its previous decision to decree a truce with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas after the rebel organization denied having agreed to it.
Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 21:15 UTC
Japan takes a turn toward the Americas in 2023

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is to meet with US President Joseph Biden on Jan. 13 at the White House, while Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has left on a South American tour seeking to strengthen ties with Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, and Argentina.
Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 12:52 UTC
Latin America forecasted to expand 1,3% in 2023, after growing 3,7% last year, ECLAC report

In its annual report Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC projects that regional growth next year will be a third of the rate forecast for 2022.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 23:02 UTC
Not bananas: shrimp now Ecuador's second-most-exported product

After a steady growth since 2018, shrimp has taken over as Ecuador's second-most exported item behind oil, thus toppling bananas from a notch they had held for quite a while, it was reported in Quito.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:04 UTC
Argentine President highlights Brazil's return to international forums

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday celebrated Brazil's “return” to all international forums and announced that “we have clearly decided to put the link between Argentina and Brazil back on track with full force,” following his meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.
Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 10:59 UTC
Lula sworn in for the third time as President of Brazil

Workers' Party founder and leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in Sunday for the third time as President of Brazil during a ceremony held at Brasilia's Congress building which was not attended by the outgoing head of state Jair Bolsonaro.
Monday, January 2nd 2023 - 09:40 UTC
Commando group storms Mexican prison; 14 dead, 24 escape

At least 10 prison guards have been killed on New Year's Eve during a shootout as over twenty inmates escaped the Social Rehabilitation Center (Cereso) 3 in Ciudad Juarez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Four detainees were also reported to have died in the riot.
Friday, December 30th 2022 - 20:20 UTC
Peru's Supreme Court upholds Castillo's 18-month pre-trial detention

Peru's Supreme Court Thursday upheld a ruling ordering former President Pedro Castillo Terrones held under pre-trial detention for 18 months after he was arrested following his decision to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, which led to his impeachment.
Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:51 UTC
Uruguay, a failed Mercosur summit and China's long shadow

Presidential summit meetings of the Mercosur alliance were usually sedate comfortable affairs until Uruguay decided to “open up to the world” under its pro-business President Luis Lacalle Pou.