Peru economy contracts 4.18% in February amid COVID-19 second wave
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Peru’s economy contracted 4.18% year-on-year in February, as the world’s no. 2 copper producer was...
April 15, 2021Section
Regional
Analysis: Cuban Communists under pressure to accelerate economic reforms
Retiring Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro promised a decade ago he would transform the Soviet-style command economy into a...
April 15, 2021
Brazil’s Bolsonaro on Argentina’s new curfew: “The Army in the streets to keep people at home?”
In what promises to be a new diplomatic crossroads, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro referred to the surprising restrictive measures adopted...
April 15, 2021
Chile joins global debate on imposing a tax on the super-rich
Chile, the country with the third-largest number of billionaires in Latin America, joins the global debate on the tax on...
April 15, 2021
Venezuela to deploy 1,000 militiamen to the border zone with Colombia
One thousand fighters from the Venezuelan National Militia - a unit of civilians affiliated with Chavismo, uniformed and armed -...
April 15, 2021
Paraguay-Brazil bridge construction deferred to allocate funds to fight Covid-19
The figure corresponds to this year's amount for investment in the bridge on the Paraguayan side of the Itaipu hydroelectric...
April 15, 2021
Over 40% of tropical timber exported by Colombia in the last decade was illegal
In addition to the environmental impact of the destruction of these ecosystems, a study by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) revealed...
April 15, 2021
Guillermo Lasso vows he will send tax-cut bill to Congress on his first day as President of Ecuador
After winning the second round of elections last Sunday, Guillermo Lasso assured that his government will bring about a "real...
April 15, 2021
Ecuador’s Comptroller General arrested, charged with corruption
Ecuador's acting Comptroller General Pablo Celi, was arrested on Tuesday, April 13th, for investigations in a case of alleged corruption,...
April 15, 2021