Latin America

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 21:45 UTC

  Foreign Office minister Swire will visit Uruguay on Wednesday 12 March

  

  Hugo Swire MP, FCO Minister for Latin America, will be visiting Uruguay on Wednesday 12 March where he is scheduled to hold several political and trade meetings. The minister will be returning from Santiago de Chile where he will attend the inauguration ceremony of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:53 UTC

  February confirmed that inflation remains Uruguay's main challenge

  

  Inflation in Uruguay during February reached 1.66% which is equivalent to 9.82% in the last twelve months, the third highest in South America behind Venezuela and Argentina.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:44 UTC

  Malvinas opportunities and links for Uruguay, but mostly unknown to current generations

  

  Lawmaker Jaime Trobo came out strongly is support of close links between the Falkland Islands and Uruguay in a column which he published in Mercopress underlining the ”interesting lesson of discovering a reality mostly unknown for Uruguayans despite the (Islands) geographic, cultural and historic proximity to Uruguay”.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:26 UTC

  Thousands of followers of the late Chavez flooded the streets of Venezuela

  

  Followers of Venezuela's late populist leader Hugo Chavez flooded the streets on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of his death, a sad but welcome distraction for his successor who has faced a month of violent protests.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:22 UTC

  Piñera blasted by his own party, but the outgoing president calls for a return in 2017

  

  The Chilean ruling coalition slammed outgoing President Sebastián Piñera and blamed him for recent electoral losses that have left the right in the lowest point in its history. The unusually harsh criticism came from members of Piñera’s own party, Renovación Nacional, a moderate conservative party that makes up the ruling Alianza.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:16 UTC

  Boudou and Timerman represent Argentina at Chavez anniversary

  

  Vice president Amado Boudou and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman represented Argentina at Wednesday's ceremonies in honor of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on his death first anniversary, which was followed by huge crowds in Caracas.

• Thursday, March 6th 2014 - 05:10 UTC

  Maduro cuts diplomatic relations with Panama for sponsoring an OAS meeting on Venezuela

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday his government was breaking diplomatic relations with Panama after the country called a special meeting of the Organization of American States, OAS, to address the current state of protests in Caracas.

• Wednesday, March 5th 2014 - 05:02 UTC

  Clear majority of Argentines disapprove of Cristina Fernandez government

  

  The assessment of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez performance has dropped over 20 points according to the latest findings from a public opinion poll published this week, with 67.5% of interviews saying they are not satisfied with the current leadership at Casa Rosada.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:44 UTC

  Several Caribbean BOTs listed in the US 2014 narcotics control strategy report

  

  The United States has named several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries as major money laundering states whose financial institutions engage in currency transactions involving significant amounts of proceeds from international narcotics trafficking.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:31 UTC

  Venezuela prepares to honor Chavez on the first anniversary of his death

  

  Venezuela has geared up for commemorations of populist leader Hugo Chávez's death despite continued protests against his successor that have shaken the OPEC member and threatened the legacy of “El Comandante.”