Latin America

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Mayor of Mexico City warns of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases

  

  The mayor of Mexico City warned on Friday of a possible resurgence of coronavirus cases in the sprawling capital in the coming months, noting that hospitalizations have been on the rise in recent days.

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Video of desperate mother begging to save her husband from Covid-19 goes viral in Peru

  

  A video of a mother running behind a van carrying Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and begging him to save her husband from COVID-19, has gone viral. “Mr. President, Don't go!” screams a tearful Celia Capira as she begs for a hospital bed for her husband in the video shot on Sunday in Peru's second-largest city, Arequipa.

• Friday, July 24th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Ecuador promotes mining but with stricter regulation for waste dams

  

  Ecuador unveiled new, tighter regulations for the design and construction of mining waste dams, seeking to avoid disasters like the tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds at a Vale site in Brazil last year.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2020 - 06:47 UTC

  Luxury presidential 787 Dreamline back in Mexico, following a failed sale

  

  The luxury presidential jet Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to sell returned on Wednesday to Mexico, more than a year and a half after he sent it to the United States in search of a buyer.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Health officials admit Ecuadorean public hospitals and ICUs situation is critical

  

  The situation in the Ecuadoran capital Quito is critical due to the coronavirus epidemic Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos warned. Between April and July, public hospitals in Quito - home to 2.78 million - expanded their intensive care units from 61 to 162, Zevallos said in a nightly interview with the Teleamazonas network.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Dissident FARC guerrilla suspected of having shot down an Army helicopter

  

  Eleven Colombian military personnel were missing and six injured after a helicopter crashed in the southeast of the country during an operation against guerillas, the army said on Tuesday. The Blackhawk helicopter was carrying 17 military personnel when it went down.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Ecuador closer to reach a US$ 17,4bn debt overhaul agreement with bondholders

  

  Ecuador pushed forward with its debt overhaul plans on Monday, requesting a vote among its creditors on reconfiguring the terms of US$ 17.4 billion of its external bonds, with its largest group of creditors backing the proposal.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Colombia's economy contracted 16,65% in May year to year

  

  Colombia’s economy contracted 16.65% in May versus the same month a year ago as ongoing measures to curb the spread of coronavirus hit production, the government’s statistics agency said.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Mexican president challenged by drug gangs, but refuses to declare war

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would maintain a less confrontational approach to battling drug gangs even after one of Mexico's most powerful cartels showcased its firepower in a video that stunned Mexicans.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Mexico seems unable to control the spread of coronavirus cases and death toll

  

  Half the Covid-19 patients who go to the hospital in Mexico's border state of Baja California die, an alarming rate that experts attribute to people waiting too long to seek admission because they fear the poor conditions of hospitals.