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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 02:19 UTC

Latin America

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

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

    “Tomorrow they will come out with headlines in the newspaper that Pedro delivers the sea to Bolivia, but that does not matter to me,” Castillo had said

    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

    Violence has been on the rise for more than 15 years, resulting in some 335,000 people dead and 93,000 missing since 2006

    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

    Omicron has become the predominant strain, Etienne explained

    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”

    Uruguay gained two points since 2020 and ranks as 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

    Abdo will participate in a virtual manner

    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

    Argentina, Haiti, Suriname and Venezuela need to be measured separately to have a better picture of the region's economy, ECLAC reported

    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

    Bitcoin's possible impact on the country's status with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has always been feared

    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

    The new report highlights that wastewater testing can facilitate the collection of useful information about vulnerable populations or groups in remote locations

    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

    “It is an opportunity that we cannot miss,” former President Macri said regarding Argentina's candidacy to the OECD.

    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.

  • Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 20:59 UTC

    Cubans keep flocking into Uruguay seeking asylum

    Cubans have kept coming in from Brazil in 2021

    The number of Cubans entering Uruguay through the land crossings from Brazil is noticeably on the rise, it was reported Tuesday. According to press reports, so far this year 135 people of that nationality have crossed through the Rivera pass from Santana do Livramento at an average of six individuals daily. Uruguayan Migrations authorities have reported that of the 135 who came in only two went out at a later date. Many of them were carrying the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which added to the migrant services overwhelming.