Latin America

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentines vote next Sunday an anticipation of October's presidential election

  

  Public opinion polls in Argentina show a very close, polarized race between President Mauricio Macri and opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez before next Sunday's PASO primaries which are Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory, and most important a clear anticipation of what could happen in October's presidential election.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands farm delegation will visit Uruguay as part of an agriculture exchange

  

  In a joint initiative between the Falkland Islands government and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, an agricultural exchange visit to Uruguay is being arranged for September 2019.

• Sunday, August 4th 2019 - 17:40 UTC

  Bolivian exporters face new conditions to ship through the Chilean port of Arica

  

  The Arica Port Company (EPA) will start applying new tariffs as of Monday to Bolivian commerce, in accordance to the Service Manual in force since 2013, it was announced.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 19:40 UTC

  The myth of the Mexican caballero defender of the downtrodden turns 100

  

  Aug 9, 1919, US writer Johnston McCulley released a story titled The Curse Of Capistrano in a Californian pulp magazine – in it was a masked and caped character named Zorro. In conceiving the sword-wielding defender of the downtrodden, McCulley set the stage for a whole century of superheroes.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:42 UTC

  Illegal coca plantations in Colombia down slightly in 2018, but still the world's biggest producer

  

  Illegal coca plantations in Colombia reduced slightly in 2018 but the country remains the world's biggest producer of the primary ingredient in cocaine production, the United Nations said on Friday.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:19 UTC

  Ross and Bolton will attend Lima Group meeting to discuss Venezuela

  

  US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will attend a summit in Lima, Peru to discuss Venezuela on Tuesday, the US Commerce Department said. US national security adviser John Bolton has also confirmed attendance, two sources in Peru's foreign ministry said on Friday.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  US to seek migration deals with other Central American countries

  

  The United States will seek migration deals with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, akin to last week's with Guatemala, to curb emigration from Central America, a senior US official said Thursday.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 23:55 UTC

  China, Colombia sign 12 new agreements to strengthen bilateral ties

  

  Colombian President Ivan Duque and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping Wednesday agreed in Beijing to strengthen bilateral relations as they signed 12 bilateral accords in areas including judicial cooperation, trade, agriculture, education and customs.

• Thursday, August 1st 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  South America expected to grow 0.2% in 2019, forecasts CEPAL

  

  Hit by five years of “economic slowdown,” Latin America's economy will grow by barely 0.5% this year, the United Nations economic commission for the region said on Wednesday, well below the 1.3% projected in April.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Economic decline of Venezuela since 2013 estimated at 65% by the IMF

  

  The cumulative decline of the Venezuelan economy since 2013 will reach 65%, among the deepest five-year contractions around the world over the last half-century, the International Monetary Fund has announced.