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Spain commits in Brazil to promote ratification of the EU-Mercosur agreement
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, began a two-day official visit to Brasilia on Thursday to...
López Obrador violates electioneering ban to denounce vote buying in Mexico
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador broke the ban that prevented him from talking about the campaigns this Thursday...
South American soccer begins immunization against Covid-19 in Paraguay
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Paraguayan Football Association (APF) began this Thursday the immunization against the coronavirus of its first division teams with...
Nationwide strike: Protests in Colombia remain alive to the cry of “no more violence”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Protests in Colombia remained alive this Wednesday to the cry of "no more violence", as the demonstrations that have...
Latin American Mercado Libre announces bitcoin acquisition
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Wednesday, May 5th, Mercado Libre, the Latin American e-commerce fintech company, said in a regulatory filing that it...
Uruguay watches its pockets as pandemic spreads poverty
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Covid-19 pandemic added 100,000 to the number of poor people in Uruguay, a country known for its social...
Colombia’s coffee production in April up 9%, exports up 61%
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia produced 810,000 60-kg bags of washed Arabica coffee in April, up 9% from the 744,000 bags produced in...
Paraguay “disputes” with Uruguay Latin America’s highest Covid death rate
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Health Surveillance Directorate's epidemiological projections point to even gloomier days in terms of Covid-19 infections and deaths. The...
Mercado Libre posts Q1 net loss of US$34 million; revenue soars 111%
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mercado Libre on Wednesday, May 5, reported a first quarter 2021 net loss of US$34 million, or US$0.68 loss...
Argentina’s controversial wealth tax raised close to US$2.4 billion
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Preliminary data showed that around 10,000 individuals with assets over US$2.1 million paid the new tax. Argentina's government collected...
Peruvian left unites to support Pedro Castillo against Keiko Fujimori
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Peru's moderate left, led by Verónika Mendoza, signed this Wednesday a pact to support ultra-left candidate Pedro Castillo in...
Latam airline, the largest in Latin America, seeks to be carbon neutral by 2050
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Latam, Latin America's largest airline, presented on Wednesday, May 5, the sustainability strategy with which it aims to offset...
Prosecutor’s office will charge police officers for 3 homicides during protests in Colombia
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Colombian Attorney General's Office will charge police officers for the homicides of three civilians during the violent demonstrations...
Costa Rica sets record for number of hospitalized in its worst moment of the pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Costa Rican authorities counted this Wednesday 1,123 people hospitalized by covid-19, of which 405 are in intensive care units,...