News of recovery

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

20-06-2022 14:35 Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first ever left-wing president after defeating millionaire businessman rival Rodolfo Hernández in run-off.

Latin America

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

18-06-2022 01:20 A former leftist guerrilla and a millionaire businessman will go head-to-head on Sunday hoping to become the new president of Colombia.

Colombia Election 2022

Colombians set to vote in high stakes presidential run-off

17-06-2022 18:22 Colombians vote Sunday in a presidential run-off. Opinion polls have leftist Gustavo Petro and businessman Rodolfo Hernández neck-and-neck.

COLOMBIA ELECTIONS 2022

Colombian outsider makes run-off with real shot at presidency

31-05-2022 11:18 Rodolfo Hernández, who was little known at the start of the year, surged into Colombia’s presidential run-off – and he now has a real chance at winning against leftist rival Gustavo Petro.

BLOOMBERG

Colombia’s number one banker has no fear of leftist front-runner

19-05-2022 08:00 Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez would figure to be one of the people fretting the most about the looming election of the first left-wing leader in Colombia’s modern history. But, at least publicly, he betrays little angst about the outcome of the vote this month.

EUROLAT ASSEMBLY

Opposition slams Fernández de Kirchner for ‘shameful’ EuroLat speech

15-04-2022 10:08 Vice-president officially opens 14th plenary session of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly; Representatives and opposition lash out at speech.

Leftist leader

Chilean President Boric unveils economic recovery plan

08-04-2022 15:12 Chile's president Gabriel Boric announced an economic recovery plan worth US$3.7 billion that envisages the creation of half a million jobs.

FOOTBALL

Lionel Messi back in full training for PSG after Covid

18-01-2022 17:01 Lionel Messi was back in full training with Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday for the first time since testing positive for Covid-19 at the end of last year.

BLOOMBERG – INTERVIEW

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

17-01-2022 06:59 Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels.

FOOTBALL

Messi 'taking longer than expected' to recover from Covid-19

13-01-2022 16:47 Lionel Messi said on Thursday he needs more time to recover before playing again after contracting Covid-19 earlier this month.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Guzmán forecasts 10% growth for Argentina's economy in 2021

14-12-2021 12:55 Martín Guzmán tells congressional committee that Argentina's economy will grow 10% this year.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina is first in South America to regain pre-Covid fuel demand

05-11-2021 02:17 Argentina is the first major country in Latin America to see gasoline demand recover to pre-pandemic levels.

BLOOMBERG

Debt load threatens Latin America jobs recovery, World Bank says

14-09-2021 12:06 Latin America’s heavily-indebted corporations are likely to delay rehiring workers during the recovery from last year’s slump, according to the World Bank.

Economy

World Bank forecasts 'modest recovery' for Latin America and Caribbean

09-06-2021 14:51 Latin America and the Caribbean will have "modest economic recoveries" in 2021, the World Bank has warned. Argentina's economy forecast to rebound 6.4% this year.

An Indian perspective

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-Covid world

13-04-2021 13:47 Fashioning a robust response to the Covid-19 challenge is set to dominate global diplomacy in 2021.

by Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

INVESTMENT

President pitches Argentina to top global investment funds

16-03-2021 21:23 President Alberto Fernández pitched Argentina’s growth potential to a host of top global investment funds on Tuesday, as he asked them to back the country and its bid for economic recovery.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Argentina’s economy recovery slowed to a crawl in December

24-02-2021 17:52 Economic growth month-over-month slowed to a crawl of 0.9% growth in December, down from 1.4% in November.

Global pandemic

Vaccine delays threaten economies hardest hit by pandemic

23-02-2021 12:24 Latin America and the Caribbean, the region where the coronavirus caused the worst economic destruction and more than a quarter of the world’s deaths, is now falling victim to a slow inoculation campaign.