Latin America

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Delta Air Lines buys a 20% stake in LATAM Group for US$ 1.9bn

  

  Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it would buy a 20% stake in LATAM Airlines Group for US$1.9 billion, creating a major new airline partnership and ending the Chilean carrier's ties with American Airlines.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Precious fauna perished in weeks of wildfires in Bolivian forest and grassland

  

  More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swathes of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said on Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  US and Colombia intercept homemade submarine with five tons of cocaine

  

  A homemade submarine carrying more than five tons of cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, the US Coast Guard said.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Multilateralism, Iran, Venezuela and Falklands in Macri's address to the UN General Assembly

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri defended the trade agreement of Mercosur with the European Union, as part of his government's strategy to open Argentina to the world, demanded Iran cooperates with the judicial system to help clear the 1994 AMIA attack in Buenos Aires, condemned the Venezuelan dictatorship of president Nicolas Maduro and called on the United Kingdom for dialogue on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, although reaffirming his country's “legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the South Atlantic Islands.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  In support of Venezuela, Uruguay abandons the Rio Treaty

  

  Uruguay will leave the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR, also known as Rio Pact) due to an “obvious attempt” by the other signatories to use it to threaten Venezuela with the use of force, Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa said at a press conference in Montevideo on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  OAS votes to use Rio Treaty to implement economic sanctions to the Maduro regime, but no military action

  

  In a meeting convened by the Organization of American States, 16 of the 19 states party to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, a 1947 pact known as the Rio Treaty, backed using the pact to collaborate on law-enforcement operations and economic sanctions against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, and associates, accusing his regime of criminal activity including drug trafficking and money laundering.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bachelet feels sorry for Brazil, “how I take things, depends on who is saying them...”

  

  U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who earlier this month came under personal attack from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, says she feels sorry for Brazil, according to a Chilean media report published on Sunday.

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Michelle Bachelet says she can't work miracles for Venezuela and its “critical human rights situation”

  

  The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, denounced that her figure is misunderstood in Venezuela’s case. The Chilean president, who published a severe report in July denouncing human rights violations in Venezuela, said that many in that country mistakenly see her as “the virgin Mary, who can work miracles” and solve the humanitarian drama.

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 19:45 UTC

  AMLO eyes referendum to legalise drugs in Mexico for medical purposes

  

  Mexico's leftwing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took a challenging stance towards traditional medicine and admitted a referendum about legalising some drugs for treatment purposes was likely.

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 12:41 UTC

  New sex scandal hits Panama's Catholic Church - three priests spared from duties

  

  Three Catholic priests were removed from their religious functions in Panama Friday for “inappropriate” and “scandalous” behaviours, after a digital news outlet revealed sexual encounters of priests with men, including a minor.