Latin America

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Eight people killed in Medellín air crash

  

  Eight people were reported dead after a light aircraft crashed in a residential area after declaring an emergency following takeoff at Medellín's Olaya Herrera Airport, the same air terminal where famous tango singer Carlos Gardel and his band were killed in an airplane crash on June 24, 1935.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 18:31 UTC

  Maduro urges like-minded regional leaders to seize the opportunity

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged his fellow leftwing Latin American leaders to seize the opportunity to strengthen regional integration and “agree on the construction of a common economic space” and of “a common monetary system.”

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 13:30 UTC

  Ecuador wins World Cup opening game despite bribe rumors

  

  Narrated by American actor Morgan Freeman, the opening ceremony marked the beginning of the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar, an event that had been in doubt from the beginning, from the scandals splashing FIFA's awarding its organization to the non-democratic country to all-out global war from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Goldfajn chosen new IDB boss

  

  Brazil's Ilan Goldfajn was elected Sunday as the new head of the Interamerican Development Bank (BID), it was reported in Washington DC.

• Friday, November 18th 2022 - 23:58 UTC

  A Latam Airlines plane collided with a fire truck in Lima: two firefighters are death

  

  A Latam Airlines plane collided with a fire truck while taking off from one of the runways of Jorge Chávez Airport in Lima, Peru. Two firefighters, who were in the car, died as a result of the impact, local media reported.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Lula wants to host COP30, announces Ministry of Indigenous People

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced during his appearance at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, that he will create a ministry of native peoples so that indigenous people “are not treated as bandits.”

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Considerable container freight rate decline from Asia to Eastern South America

  

  The latest S&P Global Monday release on Platts Americas Container Freight shows that non-Asian export cargo bound for the East Coast of South America saw the greatest freight rate decline, dropping 51.9%, or US$ 2,700, throughout the week, to settle at US$ 2,500/FEU.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Paraguay not bowing to global pressure against cattle farming

  

  Paraguay's delegation attending the COP27 climate summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh Tuesday announced that the South American country would not endorse any collective statement curbing livestock farming.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  LATAM pilots' strike avoided at last minute; airline activity rapidly picking up

  

  Minutes before deadline officials from the Chilean/Brazilian carrier Latam and the Pilots Union reached over the weekend an agreement which deactivated what seemed an unavoidable strike. The reason for the strike dates back to 2020, when Latam fired 240 pilots and cut the remaining professionals salaries by 30%.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

  Kenji Fujimori gets suspended jail sentence

  

  A court of law in Lima Tuesday handed down a 4.5-year jail sentence against former Congressman Kenji Fujimori and two other defendants in an influence-peddling case.