Latin America

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:27 UTC

  Brazil of Hope alliance makes Lula's candidacy official

  

  A coalition including the Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil Thursday launched the presidential ticket of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin for the October 2 elections, where incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro is the man to beat samwichxdsf

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  Uruguay refuses to sign Mercosur Summit's joint statement

  

  The Government of Uruguay Thursday refrained from signing the joint document penned at the Mercosur Summit in Asunción, on the grounds that it lacked any mention of flexibilization, which the Luis Lacalle Pou administration needs to broker one-on-one deals with other blocs or countries or blocs of the block.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Bolivian railroad seeks to boost region's global trade capabilities

  

  Bolivia's Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta Wednesday highlighted his country's Bioceanic Integration Railway Corridor (CFBI), which seeks to link the Brazilian port of Santos with Ilo in Peru to further develop the region's trade capabilities.

• Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 08:28 UTC

  College-like education program launched for teachers of Guarani

  

  Education authorities in the Argentine province of Corrientes Wednesday launched a variety of Guarani programs whereby students can get various college-type degrees for the teaching of the ancestral language.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  EU eyes CELAC for food; Mercosur “a more complicated issue”

  

  Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, has said Latin America would host a CELAC meeting sometime next year, but admitted that ratifying the 2019 trade agreement with Mercosur was “a more complicated issue.”

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:43 UTC

  Cubans to keep enduring power cuts in blazing summer

  

  The electricity supply in Cuba's capital city is showing increasingly recurrent cuts as the aging power plants seem to be reaching their point of technical exhaustion.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Argentines dump their currency in northern provinces and trade with Bolivian money

  

  With the Argentine economy in shambles, inflation out of control heading for hyper inflation, daily increases of prices, and new clamps to have access to some strong currency, --such as the US dollar, which Argentines love--, along the provincial border towns, particularly with neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay trade is done mostly with Pesos, but Bolivianos.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Petro wants FTA with US repenned

  

  Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro and US Ambassador to Bogotá Francisco Palmieri met Monday to discuss common goals with the incoming administration which might include renegotiating the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed ten years ago between the two countries.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Pepe Mujica favors legalizing drugs to hurt traffickers

  

  Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica has retired from active politics but his witty statements keep making headlines, even at a time when his wife is about to undergo surgery following a domestic accident.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Somber future ahead for Argentina's economy

  

  Foreign Analysts do not see a bright future ahead for Argentina's economy. While some place it among the countries most likely to default its debt, others fear it might not survive a new adjustment to the basic interest rates by the United States.