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Brazil helped raise Chile’s dictator Pinochet to power, according to declassified US documents

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil helped to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende (1970-1973) and to raise dictator Augusto Pinochet...

March 31, 2021

Between crisis and fear of collapse, a Covid wave reaches Venezuela

After a year of coexistence with covid-19, the Brazilian mutation has caused the great wave of contagions to reach the...

March 31, 2021

Eruption of Pacaya volcano in Guatemala affects 1,300 farming families

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Pacaya volcano, one of the most active of the 32 volcanoes in Guatemala, registered...

March 31, 2021

Pandemic: the borderland between Uruguay and Brazil between hope, resilience and faith

Such is the reality of commerce in a "dry border" which is actually a public space, the International Plaza, where...

March 31, 2021

Argentine economy starts 2021 in negative territory

As expected, Argentina started the year in the red.

March 31, 2021

Argentina to become automaker BMW’s second lithium supplier after US$334m deal

German automaker BMW is making progress in its transition to electric cars and, as part of this process, signed a...

March 31, 2021

Chile says manufacturing, copper output down in February

Chile’s manufacturing output dropped 0.6% year on year in February.

March 31, 2021

Hospitals in Ecuador’s capital overwhelmed by Covid-19 infections, doctors say

Ecuador’s health system is under severe strain from a spike in coronavirus infections, doctors in the country’s capital said on...

March 31, 2021

Smuggler trade thriving on Mexico’s southern border as migrants seek access to the U.S.

Maritza Hernández arrived at this remote Guatemalan village exhausted, with two young kids in tow and more than a thousand...

March 31, 2021