Latin America

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Hess Exploration investing heavily in its Guyana oil offshore operations

  

  The Hess Exploration company is betting strongly in the opportunities of its Guyana operations. With a 30% interest in the Stabroek Block, it has allotted more than 80% of its capital and exploratory budget of US$1.9 billion for 2021 to its offshore blocks.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Over a million people have died from Covid-19 in the Americas

  

  More than one million people have died from COVID-19 in North and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported. Last week two million more cases were reported in the Americas, with the United States the main driver of the outbreak.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Colombian defense minister and respected politician dies of Covid-19

  

  Colombia's defense minister has died in hospital after contracting coronavirus, the government announced. Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, was taken to hospital with Covid-19 earlier this month and had developed viral pneumonia.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentina and Chile “indissolubly twinned countries”, underlines president Fernandez

  

  Argentina and Chile are “indissolubly twinned countries”, said Argentine president Alberto Fernandez during the ceremony at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago where, next to his peer Sebastián Piñera, and members of their cabinets, they signed several accords and a joint declaration.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 11:22 UTC

  State of the art USCG Stone docks in Montevideo heading for the South Atlantic

  

  One of the US Coast Guard newest vessels docked in Montevideo early Monday looking for supplies and fuel, but given the strict sanitary isolation measures no member of the crew will be disembarking or anybody visiting the vessel.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 10:52 UTC

  Uruguay's Jose Pepe Mujica bestowed with the highest honor of Argentina

  

  Uruguayan former president, Jose Pepe Mujica has been bestowed by the Argentine government, the country's highest honor, the Collar of the San Martin Liberator Order. The honor is extended to foreign officials, civilian or military, who in the exercise of their duties merit the highest tribute and acknowledgment in the interests of the Argentine Nation.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Colombian ex paramilitary boss deported back from the US

  

  REUTERS – A Colombian ex paramilitary boss accused of crimes including torture and murder was deported from the United States on Monday, Bogotá migration authorities revealed. Hernan Giraldo, 72, was extradited to the United States from Colombia in 2008, where he served a 12-year sentence for drug trafficking offenses.

• Monday, January 25th 2021 - 08:23 UTC

  Bolivia announces new biodiesel production plan

  

  Bolivia will build ecological diesel and biodiesel plants to reduce imports of liquid fuels, Hydrocarbon and Energy Minister Franklin Molina announced over this past weekend.

• Monday, January 25th 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  Global FDI collapsed in 2020, down 37% for Latin America, and 2021 does not look much better, UNCTAD

  

  Global foreign direct investment (FDI) collapsed in 2020, falling 42% from US$ 1.5 trillion in 2019 to an estimated US$ 859 billion, according to a UNCTAD Investment Trends Monitor released on Sunday.

• Friday, January 22nd 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Fitch forecasts Latin American economies will rebound but with downside risks

  

  Fitch Ratings forecasts Latin American economies will rebound this year from the 2020 recession but risks remain in particular because of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.