Latin America

• Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  Guatemala devastating Fuego volcano showing signs of greater activity

  

  Guatemalan authorities warned that the Fuego volcano was showing signs of greater activity on Tuesday night as the death toll from a devastating eruption at the weekend climbed to 75 and nearly 200 people remained missing.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Vice-president Pence to address the Venezuelan question in Brazil and Ecuador

  

  United States Vice-President Mike Pence will travel to Brazil and Ecuador at the end of June in an effort to strengthen trade and security ties with countries grappling with growing numbers of refugees fleeing Venezuela’s economic crisis, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Guatemala volcano eruption: 25 dead, dozens missing, thousands fleeing the area

  

  Twenty-five people have been reported dead, while at least another 25 were injured after the Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala erupted, shooting smoke and rocks 10 km into the air, the eruption forcing a mass exodus from nearby villages blanketed by ash, the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction in Guatemala (Conred) confirmed. Local reports indicate that some 2,000 people have fled the area.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  Colombia renews flexible credit line of US$ 11.4bn with IMF

  

  In a continuation of a previous arrangement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Colombia for a flexible credit line of US$ 11.4 billion. The new two-year arrangement replaces the pre-existing credit line, which has now been cancelled. Colombia will continue to see the funds as precautionary to be used only in if economic conditions worsen due to an external shock or other emergency, according to the IMF.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Heathrow with less connections to Latin America than major European hubs

  

  London Heathrow is connected to fewer Latin American country markets and individual destinations than all of the other major European hubs. That’s the conclusion from the analysis of which airports are missing from Heathrow’s route network in the lead-up to the anna.aero-RABA Heathrow HubLAB Conference in London on 12 June.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 06:47 UTC

  Over half of Mexican voters express support for Lopez Obrador

  

  With less than a month before Mexico’s presidential election, more than half of voters support leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a survey showed, while they pulled support from the poll leader’s main rival following attacks on his honesty.

• Saturday, June 2nd 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Nicaragua's husband-wife team ready to fall: end of the road for the Ortegas

  

  By Gwynne Dyer (*) - From the Ceausescus in Romania (overthrown and shot 1989) to the Mugabes (removed in a non-violent military coup 2017), husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a particularly high casualty rate. And now it may be the turn of the Nicaraguan team: President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Guyana on the global energy map: oil production expected to reach 600.000bpd

  

  The Norwegian oil and gas research firm Rystad Energy is predicting that Guyana's oil sector could generate annual revenue of US$15 billion and that the government would pocket most of the profit generated from the explorations.

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 06:28 UTC

  We have neglected Latin America's realms of gold for too long - Brexit can change that

  

  By Boris Johnson (*) The Foreign Secretary writes in the Telegraph about his recent trip to Latin America, and the unique opportunities the region presents for the UK. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen – 67, to be exact, since I have been Foreign Secretary.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Bolivia's president Evo Morales faces increasing students and opposition unrest

  

  Thousands of protesters took to the streets of several cities across Bolivia on Monday to demand justice after a university student was killed during a demonstration last week. Some of the protesters clashed with police in the central city of Cochabamba. Authorities did not immediately report injuries or arrests.