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Automaker GM sees growing deterioration of Brazil’s business environment
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - General Motors' CEO in South America, Carlos Zarlenga, on Monday, March 8th, made yet another pessimistic assessment of the...
Analysis: Brazil markets, on shaky foundations, rocked by Lula candidacy bombshell
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s financial markets were already shaky from a worsening fiscal outlook, political logjam and a devastating second wave of...
Mexico inflation quickens in February to highest since October
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Mexican annual inflation accelerated to its highest rate in four months in February due to a rise in energy...
Murderer who shocked Uruguay sentenced to 26 years in jail
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The perpetrator of a murder that shocked Uruguay in 2019 was sentenced on Friday to 26 years in prison,...
Argentine wheat planting facing pressure from rival barley, politics
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Argentine wheat sowing is likely fall this year as farmers calculate the risk of state intervention in the market...
Biden grants temporary protected status to Venezuelans in U.S. who fled country’s turmoil
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Biden administration is granting temporary protected status to Venezuelan migrants living in the United States and is also...
Brazil study suggests AstraZeneca vaccine is effective against Brazil COVID-19 variant
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Preliminary studies suggest the AstraZeneca vaccine will protect against the P1 variant of the coronavirus, Mauricio Zuma, the head...
Colombia fiscal revisions spark market concern, up risk of rating loss
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia’s plan to finance its fiscal needs this year with ever-swelling debt has sparked market concern and may herald...
“Sell the house”: Latin Americans beg and borrow to pay COVID-19 debts
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s...
Brazil’s Petrobras receives six board nominations from federal government
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras said on Monday, March 8th, that the federal government had nominated six individuals as...
Economy minister: Brazil to get extra 5 million COVID-19 doses from Pfizer
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Monday, March 8th, that Pfizer Inc will deliver an additional 5 million...
Two-thirds of tropical rainforest destroyed or degraded globally, NGO says
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising...
Exposé: 64 Chinese companies selling fentanyl chemicals and equipment to Mexico’s cartels
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Infobae) Since 2013, an unprecedented surge in fentanyl overdose deaths has been caused by heroin laced with illicitly produced...
“The Maduro regime has become a crime syndicate and Iran is a main destination for uranium smuggling from Venezuela”, says Juan Guaidó
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL- "It is public knowledge that several members of the military have been arrested after smuggling uranium from Venezuela, and we...