Latin America

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Names of women victimized by violence painted on metal barriers protecting Mexico's National Palace

  

  Reuters – The names of women victimized by violence were painted late on Saturday on metal barriers erected around Mexico's national palace ahead of a major women's march as activists turned the fencing into a makeshift billboard for their movement.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Norway's Equinor, YPF and Shell will operate a block in North Argentine basin

  

  Norway's Equinor and YPF have entered into an agreement with Shell to jointly farm-down 30% non-operated interests in the CAN 100 block in the North Argentine basin, offshore Argentina.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Pandemic has pushed 20 million Latin Americans into poverty, UN report

  

  More than 20 million people were pushed into poverty during pandemic-plagued 2020 across Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N. economic agency for the region announced this week.

• Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Colombia and Peru want to centralize gold purchases to combat illegal extraction

  

  Colombia and Peru are studying the possibility of centralizing gold purchases, in an effort to combat illegal and informal extraction. Colombian President Ivan Duque said his government is considering the move to stymie the role illegal mining plays in fueling a decades-long internal conflict.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  After all Americans have been vaccinated, US willing to discuss the issue with Mexico

  

  Reuters – The Joe Biden administration downplayed the prospect of sharing coronavirus vaccines with Mexico, arguing it is focused on getting its own population protected against a pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 Americans.

• Monday, March 1st 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  The Biden administration has no immediate plans to review sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

  

  The new administration of president Joe Biden is in “no rush” to lift U.S. sanctions on Venezuela but would consider easing them if President Nicolas Maduro takes confidence-building steps showing he is ready to negotiate seriously with the opposition, according to White House sources.

• Saturday, February 27th 2021 - 18:21 UTC

  Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19

  

  Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Final approval for Delta-Latam “trans-American Joint Venture Agreement”

  

  The final approval for the Delta-LATAM joint venture has been given this week by Brazil. The agreement, which has also been given the nod from Uruguay, still needs approval in some other jurisdictions. The news was released by Simple Flying, an air industry specialized news agency.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Peruvian justice makes exception and authorizes euthanasia to psychologist

  

  Peru authorized for the first time to respect the decision of a psychologist to end her life when she deems it convenient and ordered the medical authorities to elaborate a protocol for the fulfillment of her wish.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Gangs' war in Ecuadorian jails death toll climbs to 79, and remains out of control

  

  Ecuador raised the death toll from riots in four jails to 79, including 18 prisoners who were found dismembered at one site, one of the bloodiest outbreaks of prison violence in the country’s history.