Latin America

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  The flourishing business of coffin making in Peru… with Venezuelan labor

  

  As the coronavirus-hit economy of Peru stagnated over the past three months, Lima coffin-maker Genaro Cabrera has seen his sales quadruple. “I never imagined working to such an extreme,” Cabrera said at his factory in the rundown district of San Juan de Lurigancho.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  Ecuador sovereign bond holders form a committee to begin negotiations

  

  Holders of Ecuador sovereign bonds have formed a committee to hold talks with the country's government on a potential re-profiling of the country's external debt, the group said in a statement on Thursday.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  Qatar Airways pledge of support sends Latam Airlines stock soaring

  

  Latam Airlines registered a significant rise Tuesday and Wednesday on the Santiago Stock Exchange, rising 37.63% and 16%, which is attributed to the support that its partner Qatar Airways, who owns 10% of the Chilean airline, disclosed.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  WHO's Americas branch PAHO calls on US to keep countries in the region combat the pandemic

  

  The World Health Organization's (WHO's) regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday to keep helping countries in the region to fight the novel coronavirus even as the Trump administration leaves the UN agency.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Mexican workers return to work at the automotive factories

  

  Tens of thousands of workers lined up before dawn to return to work at automotive factories along Mexico's northern border on Monday, the first day that industries joined the country's list of essential activities beginning to reopen.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Storm in Central America leaves at least 18 dead, and hundreds homeless

  

  Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first-named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Peruvian mining sector activity expected to fall by 15% this year

  

  Production in Peru’s mining sector will fall by at least 15% this year, representing a loss in revenues of up to US$ 5 billion, due to disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a top mining executive said on Wednesday.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Colombian families abandoned at Sao Paulo airport; no humanitarian flights from Bogotá

  

  More than two months after the coronavirus pandemic triggered worldwide lockdowns, much of the world is gradually reopening. But Latin America remains highly isolated by travel restrictions across the region.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  The Americas will bear the brunt of the pandemic job losses, ILO report

  

  The Americas will bear the brunt of an estimated 305 million job losses that the coronavirus pandemic will cause worldwide between April and June, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Peruvian record lockdown: three months paralyzing the economy

  

  The health system in Peru is on the brink of collapse, with public hospitals facing drastic equipment shortages amid a rising number of coronavirus cases. A University of Washington study has projected that Covid-19 deaths in Peru will reach nearly 20,000 by August, indicating that demand is likely to outstrip the supply of beds in intensive care units.