Latin America

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Turkish FM signs bilateral agreements on his Caracas visit

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Friday signed in Caracas a series of agreements between his country and Venezuela in areas such as financial economy, agriculture and fishing, tourism, sports, health and medicine, and education, it was announced.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Slowdown deepens in Latin America with regional growth forecasted at 1,8% this year, ECLAC report

  

  The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean face a complex situation in 2022 because of the Russia/Ukraine war with its shadow of uncertainty for the world economy. This is negatively affecting global growth, and at regional level, lower expected growth will be accompanied by higher inflation and slower employment recovery.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  State of emergency declared in violence-torn Ecuadorian provinces

  

  President Guillermo Lasso Friday decreed a state of emergency for two months in three of Ecuador's provinces where the crime rate has reached historic levels, it was announced.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Presidents Biden, López Obrador discuss migration over the phone

  

  US President Joseph Biden and his Mexican colleague Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) were reported Friday to have had a “very constructive and cordial” telephone conversation, according to White House sources.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 23:06 UTC

  Uruguayan President was invited by Boris Johnson and will travel to the UK

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, was invited by the government of the United Kingdom to meet with the Prime Minister of that country, Boris Johnson. He will travel to that country at the end of May or the beginning of June, as reported by Montevideo Portal and later confirmed by sources from the president's office.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 22:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires' Aeroparque opens up to Colombian routes

  

  Argentina's National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) announced earlier this week that it was allowing flights to and from Colombia could operate at Buenos Aires' metropolitan Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport (AEP / SABE).

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 20:56 UTC

  Merely 7% of Peruvians believe new constitution a priority

  

  According to a survey published Wednesday by Lima's El Comercio, only 7% of Peruvians believed a new Constitution was among the people's priorities.

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Latin America in a “pre-explosive” situation, democracy is not delivering, Latin Barometer

  

  Latin America is going through a critical “pre-explosive” moment with traditional democracy in decadence, “one out of two Latin Americans want someone to solve their problems, even ignoring the law”

• Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 21:14 UTC

  Peru declares H3N2 epidemiological alert

  

  Peru's Health Ministry (Minsa) Tuesday issued an epidemiological alert in light of the growing number of Influenza A (H3N2) cases in Ayacucho, Piura, and Lima.

• Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 20:19 UTC

  Improving numbers in tourism still below Cuban gov't's projections

  

  Cuban tourism authorities have confirmed 128,159 foreign travelers had visited the country for leisure purposes during March of 2022, which represented 58.7% of the Government's projections.