Latin America

• Wednesday, July 29th 2015 - 06:43 UTC

  Maduro formally requests UN mediation in border dispute with Guyana

  

  Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro said he asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for U.N. mediation in his country's century-old border dispute with neighboring Guyana. The controversy was discussed by Maduro and Ban at a meeting Tuesday morning in New York.

• Monday, July 27th 2015 - 06:18 UTC

  Peru's Humala begins his last year in office with defeat in congress and 80% disapproval

  

  Peruvian lawmakers elected an opposition legislator as head of Congress in a new but hardly unsurprising defeat for the ruling party and increasingly unpopular President Ollanta Humala who this week begins the last year in office. GfK polls indicate the president has a disapproval rating of 80%.

• Monday, July 27th 2015 - 05:20 UTC

  Guyana warns in Washington about the Venezuelan threat to its territory

  

  Guyana's territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela represents a threat to its very survival, President David Granger warned Friday in Washington. After a recent offshore oil find, the row between the two countries has escalated, with Venezuela laying claim to a huge swathe of Guyana's territory.

• Friday, July 24th 2015 - 09:38 UTC

  ExxonMobil find in Guyana's waters could be worth 12 times the country's GDP

  

  The Exxon Mobil oil find in Guyana, which has triggered a strong reaction from neighboring Venezuela could be worth 12 times more than that nation’s GDP. In effect according to a Guyanese minister, the find at Liza-1well in offshore Guyana could be worth about $40 billion at current international crude prices.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 07:24 UTC

  Over half of Argentina households belong to the middle class; only second to Uruguay

  

  Argentina is the Latin American country where the middle class has grown the most in ten years, doubling in size, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center in the United States.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 06:40 UTC

  Scioli meets Raul Castro in Havana and praises political and economic opening of Cuba

  

  Argentina's presidential hopeful and Buenos Aires governor Daniel Scioli was received on Wednesday by President of Cuba Raul Castro for an official audience in Havana, making the incumbent candidate the first foreign politician to meet the head of state since the normalising of relations with the United States.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 05:41 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas special session at Aladi's offices in Montevideo

  

  The Latin American Integration Association, Aladi, with main offices in Montevideo, will be holding on Thursday an extraordinary meeting on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands question in the framework of the recent Day of Affirmation of Argentine rights over the South Atlantic Islands (June 10), and the fiftieth anniversary of UN Assembly Resolution 2065, which called on Argentina and UK to dialogue and find a solution to the dispute.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 04:43 UTC

  Cuba and US on a 'new beginning', but 'profound differences' persist

  

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba a “new beginning” but said many differences remain between the two nations and warned that the full normalization of ties will be a long process. He spoke hours after ceremonies were held in Havana and Washington to mark the restoration of ties after more than five decades of hostility.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 04:28 UTC

  Falklands' oil industry: Mercosur special declaration in support of Argentina's Malvinas dispute

  

  The latest Mercosur summit, held last week in Brazil included a special statement, --besides the main regular declaration with 69 articles--, blasting the UK for violating international law and Argentine domestic law over the exploration of hydrocarbons “in the Argentine continental shelf in proximity of the Malvinas Islands”.

• Monday, July 20th 2015 - 07:47 UTC

  Guyana to 'stoutly resist' Venezuela plans to issue IDs to disputed Essequibo residents

  

  Guyana on Sunday warned it would “stoutly resist” plans by Venezuela to register residents in Essequibo and issue them identification cards for the neighbouring Spanish-speaking nation. Venezuela claims the region and has launched an aggressive campaign at domestic and international level calling president David Granger a 'provocateur”.