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Montevideo, January 18th 2026 - 10:27 UTC

Latin America

  • Tuesday, October 16th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

    US warns Central America to be cautious about relations with Beijing

    Central America has remained the key bastion for Taiwan, with Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua still maintaining ties with Taipei rather than Beijing

    US Vice President Mike Pence warned Central American nations to be cautious when building relations with China, which has been increasingly active in the region. Amid mounting tensions between the United States and China, Pence brought up ties with Beijing as he met in Washington with leaders of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as well as Mexico's foreign secretary.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 19:16 UTC

    New 50 bolivianos bill released as scheduled

    The historical characters found on the new Bs 50 note are José Manuel Baca “Cañoto,” Pablo Zárate Willka and the Tacana Indian Bruno Racua.

    Bolivia's Central Bank (BCB) Monday launched the new 50 bolivianos note (worth around 7.3 US dollars), following the recent release of the 10 and 20 bills.

  • Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 13:13 UTC

    Cuba back to tobacco production after Hurricane Michael

    The tobacco industry is Cuba's fourth largest employer and economic sector

    Cuba's tobacco planting season began this past week in the central Sancti Spiritus province, the country's second largest tobacco producer, while work to repair the damages caused by Hurricane Michael has commenced.

  • Friday, October 12th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

    Bolsonaro pledges support for a non ideologized Mercosur; praises Macri for ousting Dilma Kirchner

    “Mercosur has value but it was disfigured by the PT”, Bolsonaro said, adding “I won’t abandon the Mercosur but it won’t continue to be guided by ideology”

    Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has promised to continue his country's participation in the Mercosur trading bloc but says he will move it away from “ideology”.“The Mercosur has value but it was disfigured by the PT (Brazil's Workers' Party)”, Bolsonaro said at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. “I won’t abandon the Mercosur but it won’t continue to be guided by ideology”, he added.

  • Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 19:01 UTC

    Leader Keiko Fujimori arrested for money laundering in Peru

    Keiko Fujimori was being investigated for allegedly receiving funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht for the 2011 presidential campaign.

    A week after the justice annulled the pardon to her father, the former president Alberto Fujimori, after a request of the Peru's Attorney of Wash of Assets, the powerful leader of the Popular Force party, Keiko Fujimori, was arrested in Lima on Wednesday after going to a court to be questioned with her husband. The arrest occurred amid an investigation for alleged irregular handling of funds of the party's campaign for 2011 presidential elections.

  • Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 16:43 UTC

    Vizcarra calls for constitutional reform referendum to be held Dec. 9

    Peru's President Martín Vizcarra

    Peru's President Martín Vizcarra issued a supreme decree calling for a referendum to be held on Sunday, December 9, so that Peruvians can determine on four matters put forward for an upcoming constitutional reform approved by a Congressional plenum on October 4.

  • Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 10:28 UTC

    Evo can't give up - asks Piñera to resume negotiations

    Morales said Bolivia respects the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which also mentions that the two countries are not prevented from continuing dialogue.

    Bolivian President Evo Morales Tuesday delivered on his promise and asked his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, to resume dialogue between the two countries on the maritime issue and other matters of mutual interest, in the aftermath of the recent ruling by The Hague's International Court.

  • Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 07:12 UTC

    “Clouds on the horizon” warns IMF in its world economic outlook

    IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld said at the launch of its World Economic Outlook that due to recent developments, the past projection was “over-optimistic”

    The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global growth as trade tensions intensify and currency and other woes impact emerging economies. The global lender projects that the world economy will expand by 3.7% this year and next, 0.2 percentage point lower than its previous forecast six months ago.

  • Monday, October 8th 2018 - 13:03 UTC

    Evo opens strategic plant in lithium industry process

    “It is a pride for Bolivians, this plant is one hundred percent Bolivian,” said Morales.

    Bolivian President Evo Morales Sunday opened a potassium chloride industrial plant in Uyuni, department of Potosí, which is expected to have a yearly output of 350 thousand tons and is a part of the country's strategy for the industrialization of lithium.

  • Sunday, October 7th 2018 - 12:15 UTC

    World Medical Association appeals to Nicaragua to stop criminalizing doctors

    WMA Latin-Ibero branch reports that street protests in Nicaragua are being met with disproportionate use of force resulting in hundreds of deaths

    The World Medical Association has appealed to the Nicaraguan Government to stop criminalizing doctors for delivering medical care to protesters during the country’s continuing wave of violence.