Latin America

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Guyana optimistic it will win the Esequibo dispute at the International Court of Justice

  

  President David Granger is optimistic that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will dispense a ruling in Guyana’s favor in the border case with Venezuela. The Guyanese president expressed these sentiments while appearing on the popular radio program, Hot Seat.

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Peru agrees to promote US investments in the country to counter Beijing influence

  

  Lima and Washington are in the final stages of talks on a deal to promote American investments in Peru as part of a U.S. initiative to counter Chinese influence in the region, Peruvian diplomatic sources said.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro calls on Mercosur for a quick implementation of the trade agreement with the EU

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that Mercosur trade block needs to hurry up and implement agreements the group has negotiated.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Paraguay takes the chair of a quarrelsome strained Mercosur

  

  Brazil on Thursday handed over the six-month rotating presidency of the Mercosur trade bloc (Southern Common Market) to Paraguay. During a ceremony at the bloc's 55th summit in Bento Goncalves, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro expressed confidence in his Paraguayan counterpart Mario Abdo Benitez and his leadership skills.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  OAS confirms the Bolivian presidential election was rigged: “overwhelming evidence of malicious operations”

  

  The Americas regional forum, Organization of American States, OAS, published details of ”deliberate“ and ”malicious” steps to rig Bolivia's October election in favor of then-President Evo Morales, who has resigned and left the country in the midst of a political uprising.

• Thursday, December 5th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  LATAM/Delta code-sharing opens connectivity to 74 destinations in US and Canada and 51 in South America

  

  Codeshare agreements signed this week by three LATAM Airlines Group affiliates with new partner Delta Air Lines aim to improve connectivity between the Americas. The agreements were signed December 2 with LATAM affiliates in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador and are due to start in the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Bolivia creates new anti-terrorist force to dismantle foreign groups threatening the country

  

  Bolivia's interim government on Tuesday unveiled a new anti-terrorism police force it said was aimed at dismantling foreign groups “threatening” the troubled country.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Beijing's gift to El Salvador for Taiwan cut off: Stadium, library, water plants

  

  China has agreed to pay for a new national stadium and library in El Salvador as part of an infrastructure package promised to the country after it switched allegiance from Taiwan to Beijing.

• Tuesday, December 3rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Mexican women shocked and furious over a femicide and a lenient magistrate

  

  A former head of Amazon Mexico is wanted for questioning after his wife was apparently killed by a hitman in Mexico City. Abril Pérez Sagaón was shot dead in a car on Monday in front of two of her teenage children.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori out of prison struggling to recover her party's position as leader of the Peruvian opposition

  

  Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, who was released from prison on Friday, grew up during her father Alberto Fujimori's deeply divisive reign as president from 1990 to 2000. Keiko, now 44, sided with her father when her mother Susana Higuchi accused Alberto's men of torturing her and divorced him in 1994. Keiko Fujimori took over first lady duties at the age of just 19.