Latin America News

Integrate or disappear: the crisis of Colombia’s low-cost airlines 

Last week, after months of waiting, the Colombian Aviation Authority (Aerocivil) finally approved the integration of Viva Air and Avianca.

March 31, 2023

Fertility in Uruguay dropped to extremely low levels

Fertility in Uruguay has dropped drastically in the last six years, with around 49,000 births in 2015 and just over...

March 31, 2023

Cheap dollar in Uruguay? For the rural sector, there is an exchange rate delay of 25%

A few weeks ago, the Minister of Economy asked economic agents to demand more dollars so that the exchange rate...

March 31, 2023

Chile’s copper production falls to a six-year low

The top-producing nation extended a streak of unexpectedly weak figures contributing to a global market adjustment.

March 31, 2023

The province of Mendoza declares that Mapuches “are non-Argentine native peoples”

The provincial Chamber of Mendoza (western Argentina) approved a declaration considering the Mapuches as "non-Argentine native peoples".

March 31, 2023

Bolivia reports a yellow fever case on the border with Brazil

This happens 19 years after the last documented contagion in the country and amid a dengue fever epidemic, reported the...

March 31, 2023

Alfredo Borrero, the neurosurgeon who could assume the Government of Ecuador

The impeachment trial against President Guillermo Lasso could bring the Government of Ecuador to vice president Alfredo Borrero

March 31, 2023

The surprise visit to Paraguay of CIA’s number two, known as the “sanctions guru”

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo met with US Central Intelligence Agency deputy director David Cohen, nicknamed the "sanctions guru."

March 31, 2023

Opposition unites in Ecuador to impeach center-right Guillermo Lasso

On Thursday, Ecuador's Constitutional Court issued a partial admissibility ruling to initiate the impeachment trial against center-right

March 31, 2023