Politics

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 10:10 UTC

  Colorado Party of Paraguay urges lawmakers and supporters to stand behind President Abdo

  

  Paraguay's Colorado Party Monday backed its support of President Mario Abdo in the aftermath of the political scandal sparked last week when the somber Itaipu electricity deal with Brazil was unearthed, leaving the government on the brink of impeachment, a threat which has been averted.... for now.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 10:08 UTC

  Uruguay joins Venezuela, recommends travellers visiting US to take extreme precautions because of violence and hate crimes

  

  After the weekend shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, which left more than 31 dead, Uruguay followed on Monday Venezuela and warned their citizens to exercise caution when traveling in the United States.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 10:01 UTC

  British Foreign secretary Raab travels to US, Canada and Mexico to boost trade, ahead of Brexit

  

  British foreign minister Dominic Raab will travel to Canada, the United States and Mexico this week to seek to boost ties with non-European countries ahead of Brexit, his office said.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  US dollar up in Argentina on fears of Sunday's primaries and the global trade dispute

  

  Argentina’s peso fell 1.8% on Monday to 45.49 per U.S. dollar due to uncertainty over the country’s presidential election and the fallout from U.S.-China trade tensions, traders said.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Bolsonaro argues that disarming people is not going to stop mass shootings

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro argued for his signature policy of relaxing gun control measures, saying they will not stop mass shootings such as those that left 31 dead in the US over the weekend. “Disarming people isn't going to keep that from happening,” Bolsonaro said.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazilian gang leader caught trying to escape from prison dressed as his teenage daughter

  

  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by impersonating his teenage daughter, complete with a lifelike silicone mask and wig, before attempting to walk out the front door in her place after she visited him.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Colombia grants nationality to 24.000 children from Venezuela refugees

  

  Colombia President Ivan Duque signed an order on Monday allowing 24,000 children born in the country to Venezuelan parents and risking statelessness to be given Colombian nationality.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Peruvian president sends the Army to keep order in a mining port

  

  Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra has authorized the army to maintain order at a key mining port, a day before an expected new round of protests against Southern Copper Corp’s US$1.4-billion proposed Tia Maria mine.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  In a national message Trump rejects white supremacist ideology, but no word on gun control

  

  US President Donald Trump on Monday told a nation mourning the death of 31 people in two-weekend mass shootings that he rejected racism and white supremacist ideology, moving to blunt criticism that his anti-immigrant rhetoric fuels violence.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  World stock markets plunge as Beijing lets its currency to devalue and halts purchase of US farm produce

  

  World stock markets plunged on Monday as Beijing parried US President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcements by moving to let China's Yuan currency devalue and halting purchases of US agricultural products.