Politics

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  “God, a fellow Brazilian”, helped Jair Bolsonaro become president

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said God, a fellow Brazilian, had handed him the election victory that propelled him to office in South America's largest economy.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Maduro's court opens criminal cases against four opposition lawmakers

  

  Venezuela's Supreme Court opened criminal cases Monday against four National Assembly lawmakers opposed to President Nicolas Maduro, accusing them of rebellion and treason for their part in a failed military uprising.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Mexico rejects US labor inspectors: they are not included in the USMCA trade pact

  

  Mexico’s trade negotiator for North America said that Mexico categorically opposes allowing foreign labor inspectors to operate in the country, saying that was not contemplated in the recent agreement with Washington and Ottawa on the USMCA pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentine ex police officer linked to killings and torture extradited to Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine ex-police officer linked to the murder of hundreds of people during the country's “dirty war” was on a plane to Buenos Aires on Monday, after France extradited him to face trial over the disappearance of a student.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Uruguayan president confident he is overcoming lung cancer

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez clinical studies of the oncologic treatment he is undergoing “are satisfactory with no current evidence of the illness. He will continue with periodic controls, keeping to his normal activities in government”

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Double burden of undernutrition, rapidly expanding in Latin America among children and women

  

  Low and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and under-nutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned on Monday.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 07:39 UTC

  Bloomberg fined 5 million Euros in France for a report based on a fake news release

  

  France's financial markets watchdog on Monday hit Bloomberg with a five million euro (US$5.6 million) fine for a report based on a fake news release that triggered a plunge in the shares of French construction giant Vinci and wiped billions off its market value.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentine police arrest four suspects linked to the gang that killed an English tourist

  

  Argentine authorities said on Monday they had identified suspects in the shooting death of a British tourist killed in an armed robbery attempt outside a luxury Buenos Aires hotel over the weekend.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 13:59 UTC

  Brazilian president under fire due to the Amazon situation

  

  Brazil’s Amazonian reserve has always been a cause for contention between indigenous activists and the Brazillian government. Covering the majority of northwestern Brazil and extending into Columbia, Peru and a whole host of South American nations, the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest famed for its biodiversity and natural beauty.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil's basic interest rate at an all time low of 4.50%

  

  Brazil's central bank cut its benchmark Selic interest rate to an all-time low of 4.50% this week but indicated that with borrowing costs so low and economic growth starting to pick up, it may mark a pause in the easing cycle, if not the end.