Latin America

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 19:49 UTC

  Mexican wall and migration dispute escalates: Peña Nieto cancels White House visit

  

  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled next week's trip to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump. His decision comes a day after the new US president unveiled his plan to build a wall along the Mexico-US border and insisted the US would recoup the costs for the barrier from Mexico, which has strongly objected.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 19:31 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: regional summit to renew request for UN Secretary General good offices in the dispute

  

  Leaders from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, expressed full support for Argentina's legitimate rights over the South Atlantic islands (Falklands, South Georgia and South Sandwich) and anticipated they will be requesting the UN Secretary General to renew his good offices for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and UK to reach a peaceful solution to the dispute.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:51 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, least corrupt countries in Latin America says Transparency International

  

  Over two-thirds of the 176 countries and territories in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index fall below the midpoint of a scale spanning 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), said Transparency International (TI) upon the release of the non-profit’s 2016 report. No country reached above 90.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:27 UTC

  Mexicans furious with Trump; president Peña Nieto considering dropping White House visit

  

  When Donald J Trump called some Mexican immigrants rapists, threatened to deport millions of them and promised to build a wall to keep others out, Mexican officials counseled caution, saying it was merely bluster from an unlikely candidate who, if elected, would never follow through. However with only five days in office president Trump is making Mexicans furious.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:27 UTC

  Mexicans furious with Trump; president Peña Nieto considering dropping White House visit

  

  When Donald J Trump called some Mexican immigrants rapists, threatened to deport millions of them and promised to build a wall to keep others out, Mexican officials counseled caution, saying it was merely bluster from an unlikely candidate who, if elected, would never follow through. However with only five days in office president Trump is making Mexicans furious.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 07:35 UTC

  Falklands and Argentine governments regret and repudiate damages at the Darwin cemetery

  

  The governments of the Falkland Islands and Argentina have regretted and repudiated damaging actions at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, while an investigation into the vandalizing has been launched by the Falklands Royal Police, RFIP.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Mexican top officials will meet Trump administration to discuss bilateral relations next week

  

  Mexican officials will hold meetings on January 25 and 26 with U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump's top aides in Washington, to discuss bilateral relations such as security, trade and migration, the government said in Mexico City.

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 20:05 UTC

  Extradited drug lord El Chapo to face Brooklyn court on Friday

  

  Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who was recaptured last year after six months on the run, arrived in the U.S. Thursday night just hours after the Mexican attorney general's office confirmed he was being extradited to the United States, the Department of Justice announced.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2017 - 11:46 UTC

  OAS praises strength of US electoral process but observes campaign financing

  

  The strength of U.S. democracy goes beyond the particularities of an electoral process, said the Organization of American States, OAS, Electoral Observation Mission to the recent general elections in the United States in the presentation of its final report to the Permanent Council. However it also underlined that the campaign financing is “the most deregulated in forty years”.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2017 - 10:06 UTC

  IMF downgrades Latin America prospects because of lesser growth in Brazil and Mexico

  

  The International Monetary Fund has become more pessimistic about Latin America in the January economic outlook update. IMF is now forecasting regional GDP growth of just 1.2% in 2017, down from the 1.6% projection it made in October. It also lowered its 2018 estimate for Latin America by 0.1% to a revised projection of 2.1% expansion.