Latin America

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:15 UTC

  APEC summit criticizes protectionism and consider Asia-Pacific free trade area

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski brought the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to a close in Lima on Sunday with a message against protectionism and awareness that the meeting was held “at a key moment in the world's economic history.”

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:06 UTC

  Peña Nieto says Mexico willing to discuss NAFTA with Trump

  

  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is well aware of his country's need to take a new approach at bilateral relations with the United States under the coming Republican presidency of Donald Trump. “We’re at the stage of prioritizing dialogue as the path through which we may able to establish a new agenda for bilateral relations,” Peña Nieto said in Lima at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 18:39 UTC

  Buenos Aires admits poor cruise season because of past mistakes

  

  Buenos Aires cruise season has taken off but it will be far from its peak in 2012/13 when over half a million visitors reached the Argentine capital. This season will only see 81 calls with 323.000 visitors of which 70% foreigners, according to local port authorities.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 11:42 UTC

  Latin American exports downward trend is greater than in the rest of the world

  

  Following two years in a downward trend the value of Latin American exports fell 14.8% in 2015, and 8.5% in the first seven months of 2016, according to the Trade and Integration Monitor 2016 of the Inter-American Development Bank. Services exports, which had partially compensated the fall in merchandise trade in previous years, contracted 2.4% in 2015, the first time since the 2009 financial crisis.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 11:02 UTC

  Southern Cone countries reach border control accords

  

  Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, sign in Brasilia documents providing for the joint work by security agencies to fight drug trafficking, smuggling of goods and people and money laundering.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 10:07 UTC

  Santos in US for medical exams; the president underwent prostate surgery in 2012

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has travelled to the United States for medical exams after follow-up tests for a 2012 case of prostate cancer came back abnormal, he said. Santos, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to reach a peace deal with Marxist rebels, announced the trip in a brief statement as he left a clinic in Bogota where he has undergone regular check-ups since having surgery to remove a small prostate tumor four years ago.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:59 UTC

  Trudeau due in Buenos Aires Thursday morning

  

  Straight from Havana and enroute to Lima, the Canadian Prime Minister seeks to assert regional leadership following the tied caused by Donald Trump's election for the presidency of the United States.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:51 UTC

  Canadian PM will pay official visits to Cuba, Argentina and attend APEC summit in Peru

  

  Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau will pay official visits to Cuba and Argentina from November 15 to 18, and will travel to Peru from November 19 to 20 to participate in the 2016 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ meeting.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 20:09 UTC

  World cereal production remains strong; summer 2017 crops in South America expected to expand

  

  World cereal production for 2016 should amount to 2 571 million tonnes, up marginally from FAO's October forecast and 1.5% above the 2015 output. The updated figure, released Monday in the Cereal and Supply Demand Brief, reflects a substantial upgrade of the outlook for world wheat production, which is now expected to rise to 746.7 million tonnes, a 4.3 million increase from FAO's October forecast.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:42 UTC

  Bolivia: Evo Morales admits he is not ready to go home in 2019

  

  Despite what most Bolivians voted for on February 21, that is against the incumbent president being eligible to run for yet another re-election,