Latin America

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:19 UTC

  Ross and Bolton will attend Lima Group meeting to discuss Venezuela

  

  US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will attend a summit in Lima, Peru to discuss Venezuela on Tuesday, the US Commerce Department said. US national security adviser John Bolton has also confirmed attendance, two sources in Peru's foreign ministry said on Friday.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  US to seek migration deals with other Central American countries

  

  The United States will seek migration deals with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, akin to last week's with Guatemala, to curb emigration from Central America, a senior US official said Thursday.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 23:55 UTC

  China, Colombia sign 12 new agreements to strengthen bilateral ties

  

  Colombian President Ivan Duque and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Wednesday agreed in Beijing to strengthen bilateral relations as they signed 12 bilateral accords in areas including judicial cooperation, trade, agriculture, education and customs.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  South America expected to grow 0.2% in 2019, forecasts CEPAL

  

  Hit by five years of “economic slowdown,” Latin America's economy will grow by barely 0.5% this year, the United Nations economic commission for the region said on Wednesday, well below the 1.3% projected in April.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Economic decline of Venezuela since 2013 estimated at 65% by the IMF

  

  The cumulative decline of the Venezuelan economy since 2013 will reach 65%, among the deepest five-year contractions around the world over the last half-century, the International Monetary Fund has announced.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  
Canadian mining firm apologizes and compensates demonstrators shot at Guatemala mine

  

  Canadian mining firm has apologized after reaching an agreement with demonstrators shot and wounded while protesting the company's Guatemalan gold and silver mine, according to statements on Tuesday from both sides.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 14:01 UTC

  Maduro's government keeps flying voluntary refugees back to Venezuela

  

  Return to the Fatherland flights for migrants who want to return to Venezuela will resume Tuesday and Wednesday, the Nicolás Maduro administration announced.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 13:24 UTC

  Peru confident on double digit growth in foreign tourism for 2020

  

  Tourism in Peru is bound to experience a double-digit growth thanks to President Martín Vizcarra's policies, according to the country's Chamber of Turism CEO Carlos Canales.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 17:02 UTC

  Cuba opens access to Wi-Fi but it's not cheap and demands users defend the “revolution in every domain”

  

  All Cubans can now have Wi-Fi in their homes, as the island's government extends Internet access even while trying to maintain control over its version of the “truth” and to defend its legitimacy. “Cubans support and defend the revolution in every domain, both in the real and the virtual worlds,” Ernesto Rodriguez Hernandez, vice-minister of communications, said in an interview.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 13:22 UTC

  Bernal, 22, becomes the first Colombian to win the Tour de France

  

  Egan Bernal clinched victory in the Tour de France on Sunday, parading into Paris safely in the overall leader's yellow jersey, becoming the first Colombian winner of cycling's greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century.