Latin America

• Monday, November 24th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

  IMF monitoring impact of Venezuela's economic stress for Caribbean islands

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it is monitoring the potential impact any changes to PetroCaribe, Venezuela’s oil alliance with several Caribbean islands will have on regional economies.

• Monday, November 24th 2014 - 07:03 UTC

  Peru investigating the death of 500 sea lions found on a northern beach

  

  Peru is investigating the deaths of some 500 sea lions found on a beach on its northern coastline. The local governor has accused fishermen of poisoning the mammals, which usually come close to the shore looking for food.

• Monday, November 24th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  Mexico/Uruguay incident following Mujica's statement about a 'failed state'

  

  Mexico said on Sunday it was summoning Uruguay's ambassador after Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said that the disappearance of 43 students in southwest Mexico suggests the country is a 'failed state'.

• Friday, November 21st 2014 - 06:05 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez rests in Patagonia and prepares for regional agenda

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez left Thursday evening for El Calafate, Santa Cruz province, to spend the long weekend with her family, presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro reported.

• Thursday, November 20th 2014 - 05:05 UTC

  Former Brazilian minister blames Argentina for lack of EU/Mercosur trade accord

  

  A former Brazilian Development minister and currently member of the board of BRF, one of the world's leading food corporations, Luiz Fernando Furlan said Brazil is far away from world trade agreements and urgently needs to review policies in this area, including participation in Mercosur.

• Thursday, November 20th 2014 - 04:23 UTC

  Colombian government reaches agreement with FARC to release captured general

  

  The armed rebel group FARC and the Colombian government have announced that they have agreed conditions for releasing a captured general and four other people.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 09:42 UTC

  Chevron begins oil and gas production at Tubular Bells, in the Gulf of Mexico

  

  Chevron Corporation announced on Tuesday that the Hess Corporation-operated Tubular Bells deepwater project, located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, has started crude oil and natural gas production. The field is located 217 km southeast of New Orleans, in approximately 1,310 m of water in the Mississippi Canyon area.

• Wednesday, November 19th 2014 - 07:32 UTC

  Guyana's British High Commissioner calls for resumption of Parliament

  

  One week after President Donald Ramotar suspended Parliament to avoid a no-confidence motion, Britain’s High Commission to Guyana, Andrew Ayre, has called for the swift resumption of the legislature.

• Tuesday, November 18th 2014 - 11:19 UTC

  Bolivia confident Mercosur incorporation process will be ironed out at the next summit

  

  Bolivia trusts that at the coming Mercosur summit in Argentina it can advance in solving the “technical-legal” difficulties that are delaying the country's full membership of the trade and political group. Allegedly one of the main differences rests in neighboring Paraguay and how it would accept Bolivia's incorporation.

• Saturday, November 15th 2014 - 08:20 UTC

  Almost 30% of teenagers (15 to 19) are mothers in Latin America

  

  Nearly 30 % of young women in Latin America are mothers before they reach 20 years and the majority of them are underprivileged, which fosters the reproduction of poverty, hinders women's autonomy and their life projects, and underscores the need for public sex education and reproductive health services.