Latin America

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Armed robbers steal US$ 2 million in gold coins from Mexico's mint

  

  Armed robbers have stolen commemorative gold coins worth more than US$ 2m from Mexico's mint. Two men threatened guards at a branch of the Casa de Moneda in Mexico City before grabbing more than 1,500 coins from a vault, police said.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  US dollar up in Argentina on fears of Sunday's primaries and the global trade dispute

  

  Argentina’s peso fell 1.8% on Monday to 45.49 per U.S. dollar due to uncertainty over the country’s presidential election and the fallout from U.S.-China trade tensions, traders said.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Colombia grants nationality to 24.000 children from Venezuela refugees

  

  Colombia President Ivan Duque signed an order on Monday allowing 24,000 children born in the country to Venezuelan parents and risking statelessness to be given Colombian nationality.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Peruvian president sends the Army to keep order in a mining port

  

  Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra has authorized the army to maintain order at a key mining port, a day before an expected new round of protests against Southern Copper Corp’s US$1.4-billion proposed Tia Maria mine.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 12:48 UTC

  Brazil to cut down gas imports from Bolivia

  

  The Brazilian oil company Petrobras has announced that in the coming months it will reduce its imports of Bolivian natural gas, which it still considers to be essential nonetheless.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentines vote next Sunday an anticipation of October's presidential election

  

  Public opinion polls in Argentina show a very close, polarized race between President Mauricio Macri and opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez before next Sunday's PASO primaries which are Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory, and most important a clear anticipation of what could happen in October's presidential election.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands farm delegation will visit Uruguay as part of an agriculture exchange

  

  In a joint initiative between the Falkland Islands government and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, an agricultural exchange visit to Uruguay is being arranged for September 2019.

• Sunday, August 4th 2019 - 17:40 UTC

  Bolivian exporters face new conditions to ship through the Chilean port of Arica

  

  The Arica Port Company (EPA) will start applying new tariffs as of Monday to Bolivian commerce, in accordance to the Service Manual in force since 2013, it was announced.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 19:40 UTC

  The myth of the Mexican caballero defender of the downtrodden turns 100

  

  Aug 9, 1919, US writer Johnston McCulley released a story titled The Curse Of Capistrano in a Californian pulp magazine – in it was a masked and caped character named Zorro. In conceiving the sword-wielding defender of the downtrodden, McCulley set the stage for a whole century of superheroes.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:42 UTC

  Illegal coca plantations in Colombia down slightly in 2018, but still the world's biggest producer

  

  Illegal coca plantations in Colombia reduced slightly in 2018 but the country remains the world's biggest producer of the primary ingredient in cocaine production, the United Nations said on Friday.