Latin America

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  US Southern Command: Efforts to oust Maduro “have worked” though “not so fast”

  

  International efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “have worked,” Admiral Craig Faller, head of the U.S. Southern Command, said Monday but added that it will take time to get results.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Controversy in Mexico over under reporting Covid-19 infections and deaths

  

  Mexico on Monday reported a sharp increase in the daily number of coronavirus infections and deaths, breaking previous records due to what the government said was a change in methodology.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Guatemala turns back a caravan of 3,500 Hondurans migrants heading for US

  

  Guatemala has sent back almost 3,500 Honduran migrants from a caravan that was heading to the United States over concerns they might spread COVID-19, President Alejandro Giammattei said on Sunday.

• Friday, October 2nd 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Consumers' debts threaten the Peruvian banking system

  

  Peru's economy could plummet by more than 20% if unpaid consumer debts continue to mount, a scenario the government hopes to stave off with an emergency plan to reschedule troubled loans with state guarantees, the government said on Thursday.

• Thursday, October 1st 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Indigenous activists in Peru occupy infrastructure from state run oil company Petroperú

  

  More than 100 indigenous activists in Peru´s Amazon occupied infrastructure belonging to the state-run Petroperú pipeline, the company said, demanding improved social benefits and health care in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Chile drops out from regional agreement to deliver access of information in environmental matters

  

  Chile said last week it would not sign the Escazu Agreement -- a decision that generated surprise and disappointment among environmentalists because along with Costa Rica, Santiago has promoted it since 2012.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Peru's credit risk, EMBIG, stands at 183 points, less than half the region's average

  

  Peru's EMBIG (Emerging Markets Bond Index Global) spread stood at 183 basis points, while the EMBIG Latin America spread increased 52 bps to 494 bps on September 16-23, the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) has reported.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Some 270 Chinese jiggers catching giant squid in Peruvian EEZ; Navy monitoring the fleet

  

  Peru’s Navy was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country’s waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between Washington and Beijing.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Peru will attempt gradual reopening of economy in October

  

  Peru will push forward with a gradual reopening of its economy in October, allowing international flights to countries in the region and more people into its restaurants and stores, the government announced, provided coronavirus cases continue to fall.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Coronavirus global death toll passed one million on Saturday

  

  The global death toll from the novel coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed 1 million on Sunday. The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions, and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil's jungles to America's biggest city New York.