Latin America

Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:43 UTC
Trump campaigns for The Wall, steel or concrete, along the Mexican border

President Donald Trump warned of murderers and gangsters spreading across the country during a visit to the US-Mexican border on Thursday to push his demand for a multi-billion dollar wall. Trump used the backdrop of the Rio Grande border river at McAllen, Texas, to ramp up what has already turned into a hugely messy political fight with Democratic opponents, resulting in the shutdown of swaths of the US government.
Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:29 UTC
Argentina only recognizes Venezuela's National Assembly; bans entry to Maduro regime top officials

Argentina announced it does not recognize the legitimacy of the mandate initiated on 10 January by Nicolas Maduro, condemns the breakdown of constitutional order and rule of the law, and ratifies full recognition of the National Assembly as the only democratically elected branch of government in Venezuela.
Friday, January 11th 2019 - 08:54 UTC
Maduro sworn as president but most of the Americas reject his legitimacy

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn into a second term on Thursday amid international calls for him to step down, a devastating economic crisis and growing diplomatic isolation.
Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 10:03 UTC
Claims of Uruguayan ruling coalition involvement in money laundering with Chavista regimes

Uruguay and Bolivia will be the only South American countries attending this Thursday the inauguration of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro for a second five year mandate. A regime which has become an increasingly international pariah for its non democratic practices, human rights abuses, and disastrous management of the economy creating a major humanitarian crisis with food and essential pharmaceutical shortages while some three million of Venezuelans have fled the country in desperation.
Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 08:45 UTC
Maduro threatens the “Lima Cartel” with the most crude and energetic diplomatic measures

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday warned he could take “diplomatic measures” against Latin American nations that signed a statement last week describing his second term, which starts on Thursday, as illegitimate.
Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:30 UTC
Government shutdown persists as Trump and Democrats clash over US/Mexican border wall funding

United States president Donald Trump has demanded funding for his long-promised US-Mexico border wall to halt “a growing humanitarian and security crisis”. But in his first TV address to the nation from the Oval Office, Mr Trump did not declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build the barrier.
Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 07:18 UTC
UN anti corruption commission given 24 hours to leave Guatemala

Guatemala has said it is withdrawing from a UN-backed anti-corruption commission which has been investigating the country's President Jimmy Morales. Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel said on Monday that the UN body had 24 hours to leave the country.
Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Lima Group, without Mexico, urges Maduro to refrain from taking office next Thursday

Mexico’s new government on Friday called on its peers to refrain from interfering in Venezuela’s internal affairs, declining to back a regional declaration that urged Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro not to take office on Jan. 10.
Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:37 UTC
Brazil seeks supremacy in South America, said Bolsonaro, who did not discard a US military base in Brazil

Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would be open to the possibility of the United States operating a military base on his country’s soil, a move that would form a sharp shift in direction for Brazilian foreign policy.
Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 04:55 UTC
President Bolsonaro vows to tackle corruption, crime and economic mismanagement

Brazil’s newly inaugurated President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday his election had freed the country from “socialism and political correctness,” and he vowed to tackle corruption, crime and economic mismanagement in Latin America’s largest nation.