Latin America

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Second oil spill spotted near Repsol refinery in Peru

  

  A new oil spill has been spotted off the multi-buoy Terminal 2 of Repsol's La Pampilla refinery, Peru's Navy and the Environmental Assessment and Enforcement Agency (OEFA) reported Tuesday.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Peru's FM states Bolivia's access to the sea already provided for in treaty

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday released a statement regarding Bolivia's potential access to the Pacific Ocean, following remarks from President Pedro Castillo in a radio interview with CNN in which the head of state sparked controversies over that sensitive issue.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Violence on the rise on Mexico's Caribbean beaches

  

  Two Canadian tourists and one Argentine hotel manager have been found murdered in less than a week, in Mexico's Riviera Maya area. These events have once again put the spotlight on violence in this region full of beach resorts.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Number of COVID-19 cases goes up in the Americas, PAHO says

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Wednesday that a 32% increase in COVID-19 cases had been reported in the Americas during the past week, which represented around 8 million new infections.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 14:28 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, the least corrupt “in a corrupt continent”

  

  Corruption in Latin America is one of the most notorious problems on the region's agenda after a decade of major judicial operations that exposed corruption schemes involving governments and companies alike. According to Transparency International (TI), corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for more than a decade with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Paraguayan President to skip Prosur Summit due to COVID-19

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Tuesday announced he shall not be attending the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur) because he continues to be down with COVID-19, but will participate in the event in a virtual manner.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  ECLAC needs to set aside four rogue countries to measure inflation for year 2021

  

  Inflation in Latin America for the year 2021 was way above projections, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has said in a report issued from its Santiago headquarters.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Bukele needs to eliminate bitcoin as legal tender, IMF says

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele to drop the use of bitcoin as legal tender in the country, on the grounds that there are “great risks associated” with this practice. Bukele officially adopted bitcoin last September.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Wastewater testing can improve and enhance the response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean

  

  Wastewater testing provides a relatively economic method whereby countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can improve their detection, diagnosis, control, and monitoring systems for viruses that cause diseases like COVID-19 and its variants. This tool, which complements clinical studies, allows public policy makers to have a comprehensive, sustainable, early warning, and equitable tool to improve public health responses, according to a new World Bank report.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  OECD to evaluate Argentina, Brazil and Peru as potential members

  

  The Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has decided to discuss the admission into the group of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, it was announced Tuesday.