Latin America

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Costa Rica on the verge of joining OECD

  

  Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Monday welcomed the approval by the Legislative Assembly to his country's joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Chile going to polls this weekend to elect Constitutional Convention to replace Pinochet-era text

  

  Chile is about to write another chapter in its history this coming weekend when members of an Assembly to write up a new constitution to replace the one left by the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet are elected.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Lula, CFK seal alliance regarding education of future political leaders

  

  Former Argentine President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva Friday agreed to join forces for the future of the region.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 04:29 UTC

  Paraguay-Mexico Chamber of Commerce in process of creation

  

  Paraguayan exports to Mexico in the context of the coronavirus pandemic have grown to such an extent that the Paraguay-Mexico Chamber of Commerce is in the process of being created, it was announced on Friday.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Investor confidence in Uruguay allows for local currency bond issue

  

  Uruguay placed on the market a new 10-year peso bond for the equivalent of US $ 1,166 million at an interest rate of 8.25% per year, reported the Minister of Economy, Azucena Arbeleche. It is the lowest interest rate in the historical comparison of emissions by Uruguay.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  Peru: Motion to impeach President Sagasti fails forlornly in Parliament

  

  An overwhelming majority of Peru's Parliament Thursday voted in plenum against a motion seeking to oust President Francisco Sagasti.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  Colombian Government ready to negotiate but protests must first stop

  

  The Colombian government of President Iván Duque Thursday insisted that the National Unemployment Committee needs to withdraw from the conflicts affecting the country if there is to be any dialogue.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Bolivia suspends train tests to Chile after truckers protests

  

  The tests to reactivate a cargo rail line that connects the Chilean port of Arica (north) with Viacha, Bolivia (southwest), will be suspended, Bolivian authorities announced this Thursday, after several days of roadblocks by truck drivers against the initiative.

• Thursday, May 13th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Protesters in Colombia seek global support around football stadiums

  

  Despite calls for a broad, transparent, and inclusive dialogue between protesters and Colombian President Iván Duque, police repression at the hands of the infamous Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) was reported Wednesday evening in Barranquilla.

• Wednesday, May 12th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Colombia: Duque announces disciplinary actions against those involved in brutal repression

  

  Colombian authorities have taken up disciplinary actions against 65 police officers for acts of brutality allegedly committed while repressing demonstrations against the national government's tax reform bill and which eventually escalated as human rights and other demands were added.