Latin America

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Leveraged loan to help Latam airlines exit from bankruptcy

  

  Fresh air for highly indebted Latam, probably still the largest Latin American air carrier. In effect, a group of banks led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has launched a leveraged loan sale that will support Latam Airlines Group SA’s exit from bankruptcy.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Latin America and US agree to sack IDB president, a Trump appointment

  

  The fourteen governors on the board of the multilateral Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have voted unanimously to recommend firing President Mauricio Claver-Carone, Latin American sources revealed on Thursday.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2022 - 10:40 UTC

  Petro apologizes for murder of Haitian President Moïse

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro has apologized to Haiti for the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse committed by 18 mercenaries from his country who are awaiting trial on the Caribbean island.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 18:52 UTC

  Putin finds Colombia's Petro “a promising partner”

  

  Russian leader Vladimir Putin praised Colombia's President Gustavo Petro for the latter's speech Tuesday before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Popocatepetl volcano causes concern among Mexican residents in adjacent areas

  

  Just one day after two people were reported to have died during an earthquake, Mexican authorities issued an alert following two explosions at the Popocatepetl volcano Tuesday. Residents were asked not to go near the site. The alert has been set at Yellow Phase 2.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Mexico: AMLO stands by Ebrard in funeral selfie controversy

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended Foreign Ministry Marcelo Ebrard who came under heavy flak for taking a selfie of himself and his wife Rosalinda Bueso during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 18:22 UTC

  Chile will have a new Constitution soon, Boric tells UN General Assembly

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York that his country would have a new Constitution “shortly” after the Sept. 7 attempt to get a progressive text approved through a referendum failed to get past the vote of the citizenry.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Angry Bolivians force mayor to wear a skirt in humiliation for sloppy work

  

  Residents of a Bolivian town near La Paz had the local mayor wear a skirt in retribution for his alleged disregard of the various demands put forward by the population who were requesting additional transport services and more drinking water available.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  One dead after new quake hits Mexico on most historic seismic date

  

  At least one person died Monday as a 7.6-degree Richter scale earthquake hit the Mexican State of Michoacán, on the Pacific coast, 59 kilometers south of Coalcoman, on the anniversary of two previous tremors that left thousands dead in 1985 and 2017, according to a National Seismological Service report.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 19:07 UTC

  Petroperu says latest oil spill stemmed from sabotaged pipeline

  

  Peru's state-run oil company Petroperu Sunday reported an attack against the Norperuvian Oil Pipeline (ONP) in the jungle region of Loreto had caused a spill triggering environmental contingency protocols.