Venezuelan election 2024 Time for 'democratic transition' in Venezuela, says opposition candidate Yesterday 22:03 Little-known career diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia will face President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela's elections this coming July 28.
INTERVIEW James Rubin: 'China is supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and repeating its crazy arguments' 20-04-2024 05:24 China is supporting “materially, diplomatically, and even repeating Russia’s crazy arguments for this war,” says James Rubin, the United States’ top diplomat in charge of battling disinformation abroad. by Agustino Fontevecchia
venezuelan election 2024 Banned Venezuela opposition leader Machado insists she is 'Plan A' 19-04-2024 12:32 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she will keep on campaigning and insists she is a 'Plan A,' despite authorities banning her from participating in the upcoming election.
FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY Milei requests meeting with Lula to discuss 'joint policies' 18-04-2024 12:38 Bending to reality, Argentina’s President finally proposes an encounter with his Brazilian counterpart after trashing him on the campaign trail last year; Foreign Minister Mondino delivers a formal invite to her colleague Mauro Vieira in Brasília.
FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY Mondino warms ties with Brazil, but no Milei-Lula meet on cards 16-04-2024 13:10 "The possibility of a presidential meeting is always present. And we hope that at some point it will happen," Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino declares after visit to Brasília.
ECONOMY & INDUSTRY Cheap Chinese steel threatens jobs in Latin America 16-04-2024 09:45 Metal-workers in Latin America are clamouring for higher import tariffs as an avalanche of cheap Chinese steel floods the region.
FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY Mondino says Argentina will ‘never interfere' in Brazil’s affairs 15-04-2024 17:06 Foreign Minister Diana Mondino denies reports that President Javier Milei will mediate in Elon Musk’s row with Brazilian Judiciary, declaring that Argentina would “never interfere” in another nation's affairs.
Bloomberg Tech giant with 30,000 employees has no return-to-office policy 12-04-2024 14:17 Software company Globant SA’s sleek office in downtown Buenos Aires are quite the attraction, but Chief Executive Officer Martin Migoya is choosing not to adopt a return-to-office policy for his nearly 30,000 employees across 33 countries.
HEALTH & ECONOMY Argentina is running out of bug spray amid record dengue surge 10-04-2024 10:08 Bug spray is out of stock as Argentina confronts its worst-ever outbreak of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness that’s surged across Latin America amid high heat and heavy rains.
POLITICS & ECONOMY Elon Musk and Latin America: Ideological affinities and business opportunities 08-04-2024 16:33 Billionaire Elon Musk is using his social network X to take communion with the right-wing in Latin America, a region with natural resources that could help make him even richer.
CENSORSHIP ROW Brazil judge orders probe of Elon Musk as censorship row erupts 08-04-2024 11:01 Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes opens investigation into comments by Elon Musk after X owner criticises him in row over censorship.
DIPLOMATIC ROW Ecuador in diplomatic storm after raid at Mexican Embassy 07-04-2024 09:14 Ecuador slammed by Latin American peers after police storm the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas.
Venezuelan politics Venezuela to grant safe passage of Machado aides to Argentina 05-04-2024 15:03 Maduro administration will grant safe passage to Argentina to six aides of opposition leader María Corina Machado.
venezuelan election 2024 Venezuela opposition fear arrests amid 'anti-fascism' bill debate 04-04-2024 00:22 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado warns she and her allies expresses concern over new "anti-fascism" law critics say will be used to crush dissent.
DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN POLICY Colombian ambassador to return to Argentina after Milei-Petro row 01-04-2024 09:26 Foreign ministries of Colombia and Argentina put presidential row aside and announce normalisation of relations and future visit of Foreign Minister Diana Mondino to Bogotá.
DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN POLICY Mondino denies relations with Colombia are broken amid row 29-03-2024 20:31 Foreign Minister Diana Mondino says "relations with Colombia have not been broken," despite the ongoing row between President Javier Milei and his counterpart in Bogotá, Gustavo Petro.
venezuelan election 2024 Venezuela's huge diaspora struggles to register to vote 29-03-2024 10:57 Complaints from Venezuelans who live overseas are mounting over hurdles at consulates abroad for those seeking to register in this year's elections.
HEALTH Latin America, Caribbean set for record dengue season 29-03-2024 09:00 Across Latin America and the Caribbean, regional health authorities have already tallied more than 3.5 million cases and a thousand deaths due to the dengue virus.
ANALYSIS Lula-Milei clash embodies world’s competing economic views 28-03-2024 17:25 There are few presidents in the world today with more radically different economic models than Argentina’s Javier Milei and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY Colombia expels Argentine diplomats amid row with Milei 28-03-2024 01:22 Colombia orders expulsion of Argentine diplomats after President Javier Milei describes his counterpart Gustavo Petro as a "terrorist" and "murderer."
venezuelan elections 2024 Former Chávez rival registers to challenge Maduro in Venezuela 26-03-2024 14:35 Venezuelan opposition figure Manuel Rosales registers to challenge President Nicolás Maduro in July's elections, but main opposition coalition says it was prevented from nominating its candidate.
HEALTH Puerto Rico declares health emergency over dengue 25-03-2024 21:21 Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency over dengue, a mosquito-borne illness that has surged throughout the Americas this year.
REGIONAL ROW Venezuela faces criticism over arrests ahead of vote 22-03-2024 00:21 Argentina leads international criticism of Venezuela over its arrest of two top aides to opposition leader María Corina Machado, a surging rival to President Nicolás Maduro.
HUMAN RIGHTS Judge asks Uruguay to repatriate Navy plane used in the Condor Plan 21-03-2024 14:05 Court demands repatriation of plane in Uruguay that was used to transfer detainees during the Operation Condor plan of coordination between South American dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s.
ENVIRONMENT Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro 18-03-2024 10:58 A heat wave stifling Brazil set new records on Sunday, with Rio de Janeiro's heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius, the highest in a decade.
Venezuela Elections 2024 'Stronger than ever,' Venezuelan opposition candidate refuses to yield 14-03-2024 15:05 María Corina Machado continues to campaign, despite significant challenges, to rally support for her presidential bid, emphasising resilience and determination against the regime's obstacles.
HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA Buried clothes, bones and DNA help identify Colombia's missing 14-03-2024 12:42 Across Colombia, efforts have intensified to find, exhume, and identify those who have gone missing during the country's six decades of armed conflict.
BILATERAL ROW Venezuela closes airspace to Argentina as reprisal for plane seizure 12-03-2024 18:56 Venezuela announces it has closed its airspace to any aircraft coming from or going to Argentina as a reprisal for last month's handover of a seized cargo plane to US authorities.
MERCOSUR TENSIONS Mercosur tensions: Uruguay rage overshadows hope for EU deal 08-03-2024 11:43 Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou slams Argentina, Brazil governments for blocking his free-trade deal with China; Lula and Spanish PM Sánchez optimistic about long-trailed EU despite impasse.
PROTESTS IN COLOMBIA ‘Out, Petro!’ Thousands march against Colombian president 08-03-2024 00:04 President Gustavo Petro's social reform initiatives and ongoing violence in Colombia spark demonstrations as discontent grows.
Bloomberg US Treasury Secretary Yellen praises Chile’s policies in visit to lithium-rich ally 01-03-2024 16:42 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday lavished praise on Chile during a visit focused on critical minerals.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS Brazil economy grew 2.9% in 2023, says official data 01-03-2024 16:08 Brazil's economy expanded 2.9% in 2023 after a fourth quarter of zero growth, according to data released Friday by the IBGE national statistics agency.
WAR ON DRUGS Petro: US anti-drug policies caused Latin American 'genocide' 01-03-2024 15:47 "We have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century," declares Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who points the finger at the United States.
Climate Change Indigenous Colombians fret as sacred mountain glaciers melt 28-02-2024 11:50 The inhabitants of the Sierra Nevada range in north Colombia share fears about changing climate as record heat waves melt glacial peaks and ruin crops.
Extortion in Peru Pay up, or else: Latin America cowed by lucrative extortion 26-02-2024 13:50 Extortion, a business more lucrative than drug trafficking thanks to its high profits, has become the bane of citizens' existence from Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL Argentina criticises EU as Mercosur trade talks bog down again 20-02-2024 09:29 President Javier Milei’s top diplomat, Diana Mondino, offers grim assessment of Mercosur-European Union free-trade deal, revealing that treaty may be broken up into parts.
DIPLOMACY Brazil-Israel row escalates as Lula declared 'persona non grata' 19-02-2024 21:14 Brazil recalls its ambassador from Israel, which declares Lula "persona non grata" after controversial remarks.
MARKETS Latin America’s quasi-sovereign companies attract bond investors 19-02-2024 14:09 State-owned companies across Latin America face falling output, cash woes and expensive investment plans. Yet bondholders can’t get enough.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS Brazil’s economic activity caps 2023 with better-than expected growth 19-02-2024 14:05 Brazil’s economy grew more than expected in December, indicating activity is still showing some resilience to high interest rates as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva readies higher government spending.
ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Five Argentine tourists killed in Mexico road crash 19-02-2024 11:37 Five Argentine tourists and a Mexican citizen died in the tourist state of Quintana Roo in southeastern Mexico Sunday in a road-traffic accident.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Biden’s top Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez to step down 14-02-2024 21:29 Juan Gonzalez, special assistant to US President Joe Biden and the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, will depart his post in mid-March.
Archaeology Roads, farming threaten Ecuador 'lost city' complex 14-02-2024 06:37 The remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadorean cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed.
DETAINED PLANE ROW After 20 months at Ezeiza, US seizes Venezuela’s ‘Iranian’ plane 13-02-2024 17:42 Maduro government condemns “brazen theft” of Emtrasur aircraft that was detained at Argentina’s Ezeiza airport for close to two years; United States finally seizes plane, which Washington says was part of an irregular transfer with Iran.
INFLATION WOES Latin America’s inflation progress tempered by soaring food price pressures 08-02-2024 14:28 Consumer price readings underscore challenges facing Latin American policymakers as they calibrate future interest rate cuts. Most of the region’s major inflation-targeting central banks have already begun reducing borrowing costs
BRAZILIAN COURTS Bolsonaro to surrender passport as Brazil probes 'coup' 08-02-2024 12:33 Probe into Bolsonaro supporters' invasion of the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court in January 2023 continues.
OBITUARY Piñera: the ‘locomotora’ that return the right to power in Chile 08-02-2024 01:02 Former president and businessman, who led Chile for two terms (2010-2014, 2018-2022), was nation’s first right-wing leader of post-Pinochet democratic era.
CHILE Details of Sebastián Piñera’s death emerge ahead of state funeral 08-02-2024 00:48 Three days of mourning and state funeral for conservative billionaire, who died Tuesday in a tragic helicopter crash; Funeral set for Friday.
HELICOPTER TRAGEDY Shock in Chile as ex-president Pinera dies in helicopter crash 06-02-2024 20:27 The crash took place in Lago Ranco, a lake district some 920 kilometres south of Santiago, where Piñera often spent vacations with his children and grandchildren.
EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL Germany's Scholz stresses importance of EU-Mercosur agreement 05-02-2024 20:16 Germany is one of the most fervent supporters of an agreement between the European Union and Mercosur nations. France, however, is starkly opposed.
El Salvador Elections Next hurdle for El Salvador's Bukele: the economy 05-02-2024 11:35 With high public debt, nearly a third of the population living in poverty and fast-rising consumer prices, Salvadorans are increasingly starting to think of what comes next.