Latin America

Thursday, September 7th 2023 - 10:05 UTC
Mexico's next president will be a woman

Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has been appointed to run for president on behalf of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Party in 2024. Sheinbaun was elected through a controversial process of surveys which ended up showing she had about 40% of the voting intention. Sheinbaum's main rival in the primaries, former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, questioned the validity of the mechanism.
Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:30 UTC
Populist Bolivia running out of natural gas reserves; northern Argentina supply also threatened

Bolivian president Luis Arce, announced on September 1st. that the country’s natural gas reserves have been depleted, and exports to Argentina and Brazil will be interrupted, leaving a massive hole in the economy of the country.
Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:23 UTC
Panama Canal congestion: “skipping the queue immensely costly”; east South America suffering

Vessels in queue for transit across the Panama Canal stood at 128 ships on September first, some 42% above the 90 average, but 21% below the figure a month ago. While container ships, which have fixed schedules, tend to have reserved slots, the voyage plans for the tramp trades continue to be hit hard by the ongoing congestion brought about by drought and subsequent draft and transit restrictions put in place by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP).
Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 09:40 UTC
Peru: Shining Path attack results in 6 people killed

Four Peruvian troops and two members of the Shining Path terrorist group were killed in a gunfight in the department of Ayacucho where a law enforcement patrol was performing “territorial control actions,” it was reported from Lima by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Remnants of the Maoist rebel group once focused on overthrowing the government have turned to drug trafficking.
Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:26 UTC
Peru: State of Emergency around Ubinas volcano extended

Peru's Government extended for another 60 days starting Monday the State of Emergency decreed around the erupting Ubinas volcano in the Moquegua region, some 1,250 km south of Lima, it was published Sunday in El Peruano (Official Gazette).
Monday, September 4th 2023 - 07:25 UTC
Uruguay to resume meat exports to Mexico

Uruguay announced the resumption of meat exports to Mexico after three years, with 22 slaughterhouses authorized to sell beef and sheep meat to that country for the next two years, it was reported in Montevideo.
Saturday, September 2nd 2023 - 10:55 UTC
Guatemalan President-elect says there is a coup in the making

Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo de León Friday said there was “a coup d'état in progress” in his country, with many organizations wanting to “break the constitutional order and violate democracy” by attacking him and his Semilla Movement party.
Saturday, September 2nd 2023 - 10:00 UTC
UN reports nearly 2,500 people killed in Haiti this year

Around 2,500 people have died in Haiti this year while 1,000 have been injured and nearly 970 have been kidnapped, according to a statement from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released this week.
Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 15:47 UTC
Mexico gearing for a major dispute next June, when the first woman could be elected president

Mexico's opposition coalition has named an outspoken female senator with indigenous roots as their candidate for the 2024 presidential election, raising the prospect of Mexico having a female president for the first time, when the general election next June.
Thursday, August 31st 2023 - 07:15 UTC
Multiple explosions rock Quito downtown in suspected car bomb attack

A car bomb, believed to be loaded with two gas cylinders and dynamite sticks, caused multiple explosions in a commercial area of Quito on Wednesday night. The event is generating concern due to the ongoing climate of violence in Ecuador.