Tag: Latin America

• Wednesday, February 12th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Ex Ecuadorean president and several ministers on trial for accepting millions of dollars in bribes

  

  Former President Rafael Correa went on trial before Ecuador’s highest court starting Monday on charges of campaign finance fraud and accepting millions of dollars in bribes.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 10:32 UTC

  Brazil steps out from Celac, because of its failure “to protect democracy”

  

  Brazil has decided to suspend its participation in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, a leftist regional body established by Venezuela, due to its failure to protect democracy, Brazil's foreign minister said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Latin America as deadly as Middle East for journalists, RSF annual report

  

  Forty-nine journalists were killed across the world in 2019, Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, the lowest death toll in 16 years.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Strong subscription growth for Netflix in Latin America and Asia

  

  Netflix is seeing rapid subscriber growth in regions including Asia and Latin America as it girds for tougher competition in the streaming market, newly detailed figures show.

• 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.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil celebrates: 0.6% expansion in third quarter: rebound of agriculture and industry

  

  Brazil's economy expanded in the third quarter at its fastest pace since early last year, official data showed on Tuesday, with 0.6% growth over the previous quarter driven by a strong performance in agriculture and a sharp rebound in the industry.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  3 reasons why Latin America has erupted in protests

  

  From Chile to Venezuela and Bolivia to Nicaragua, it’s no understatement to say that Latin America is on fire.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina 2019: annual inflation of 55% and economy contraction of 2.7%

  

  Argentina will finish 2019 at 55% annual inflation, the country’s treasury minister said on Monday, capping off a tumultuous year for Latin America’s No. 3 economy that also saw voters usher in a new leftist government.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay's presidential runoff results delayed because of the very tight results

  

  Uruguay Sunday's presidential runoff results have been so tight that the Electoral Court will only make a definitive announcement sometime late this week after it has completed counting all votes, including some 34.000, classified as “observed”. This is because the difference between the two candidates is some 29.000 votes.

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Nobel Laureate and Myanmar generals accused of crimes against Rohingya Muslims, under universal jurisdiction in Argentine court

  

  Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named on Wednesday in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis.