Latin America

• Wednesday, August 9th 2017 - 08:08 UTC

  Regional countries don't recognize Venezuelan constituent assembly; permanent group to monitor events

  

  On Tuesday, August 8, thirteen foreign ministers from the Americas met in Lima, Peru, in order to discuss Venezuela’s social and political crisis. The result was a signed declaration in which the representatives declare that Nicolás Maduro’s constituent assembly is illegal and illegitimate, as are all decisions that result from it.

• Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 07:49 UTC

  Latin American foreign ministers will address Venezuelan situation in Peru

  

  Latin American foreign ministers are scheduled to hold an extraordinary meeting this Tuesday in Lima to address the current state of affairs in Venezuela, Peruvian foreign minister Ricardo Luna announced.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 11:27 UTC

  Latam and Caribbean forecasted to expand 1.1%, but South America, 0.6%

  

  Latin America and Caribbean countries will grow 1.1% on average in 2017 after two consecutive years of contraction, thanks to an international context that shows improved growth expectations despite geopolitical risks, and better prices for the commodities that the region exports, according to a new annual report that ECLAC presented on Thursday in Santiago, Chile.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

  Ecuadorean vice president stripped of his authority over corruption allegations

  

  Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno stripped his vice president of his authority Thursday over corruption allegations that emerged amid a battle for power within their ruling leftist coalition. In a signed decree, Moreno said he was withdrawing all the tasks that had been assigned to Vice President Jorge Glas since both took office in May, which included overseeing a production council and earthquake reconstruction.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 06:45 UTC

  Transcripts show Trump admonishing Peña Nieto for saying publicly Mexico will not pay for the border wall

  

  United States president Donald Trump urged the Mexican president to stop publicly saying he would not pay for a proposed border wall, according to transcripts. Mr. Trump admonished Enrique Peña Nieto for publicly denouncing the wall during a 27 January phone call, transcripts obtained by the Washington Post show.

• Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:04 UTC

  World Hepatitis Day: 325 million affected; annual deaths exceed those linked to HIV

  

  New World Health Organization, WHO, data from 28 countries - representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden - indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World Hepatitis Day, the data reveal that nearly all 28 countries have established high-level national hepatitis elimination committees and more than half have allocated dedicated funding for hepatitis responses.

• Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:00 UTC

  Exxon puts Guyana on the world oil map with another major discovery

  

  Exxon Mobil said that it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total discovery to approximately 500 million barrels oil equivalent. The result increases the estimated recoverable resources in Guyana’s Stabroek Block formation to about 2.25 to 2.75 billion barrels. By way of comparison, the much-heralded Thunder Horse find in the Gulf of Mexico has reserves of about one billion barrels.

• Wednesday, July 26th 2017 - 05:02 UTC

  Colombia's FARC will officially become a political party on September first

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels will officially transform into a political party on September 1, a major step in reintegrating the former guerillas into civilian life as part of a historic peace deal.

• Monday, July 24th 2017 - 08:38 UTC

  Morales highlights Bolivian independence from the IMF and World Bank

  

  President Evo Morales has highlighted the total Bolivian independence from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), which have carried out “devastating economic policies for many years” in this South American nation.

• Monday, July 24th 2017 - 07:07 UTC

  Mercosur and Colombia agree to a limited list of tariff-free products

  

  Mercosur inked a trade deal with Colombia last Friday to allow limited quantities of tariff-free trade in products including automobiles, textiles and agrochemicals, Argentina's and Colombia's governments said.