Latin America

Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:58 UTC
Peruvian vice-president resigns as interim president and supports general election

Peru's vice-president has resigned from her post after declining the opposition's nomination to be interim leader, saying she hoped it would pave the way for a new general election. Mercedes Aráoz said the “constitutional order had broken” and that the country faced a “grave institutional crisis”.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:57 UTC
Mercosur and South Korea fourth round of trade talks, this time in Busan

South Korea’s trade ministry said on Monday it plans to hold the fourth round of trade talks with Mercosur as Seoul aims to expand its trade network with emerging countries and revitalize its ailing exports.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:54 UTC
OAS General Secretariat statement on the situation in Peru

It is the political responsibility of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS / OAS) to ensure compliance with the effective exercise of representative democracy as the basis of the rule of law and constitutional regimes.
Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:27 UTC
Mexican president jokes about his predecessor's luxurious Boeing Dreamliner: “not even Trump has one like it”

The luxury presidential plane that whisked Mexico’s former leader around the world but is now for sale should tempt Donald Trump to open his wallet, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador joked on Friday.
Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:42 UTC
El Salvador president asks for a second at the UN, so he could take a selfie

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, whose social media savvy helped win him power earlier this year, took a selfie before his maiden speech at the UN General Assembly, which he called “obsolete” and suggested scrapping.
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.