August Foreign investment in Brazil drops 26% to US$4.5 billion
The Central Bank (BC) announced this Friday that Direct Investment in the Country (DDI) was US$4.5 billion in August, an...
September 24, 2021Topic
Latin America News
Brazil must import record volume of LNG to deal with energy crisis
Brazil's imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are expected to hit a record high in September, data from Refinitiv and...
September 24, 2021
Chile begins campaign for November presidential election in a climate of polarization
Chileans have voted four times in the last 12 months: They determined how the Constituent Assembly would operate and then...
September 24, 2021
Brazil’s IPCA-15 inflation tops projections, hits 10% in 12 months; interest rate futures rise
Brazil's National Consumer Price Index (IPCA-15 has reached double-digit 12-month highs for the first time since the beginning of 2016...
September 24, 2021
Fitch calls on Paraguay to create sovereign wealth fund
To maintain its sovereign rating (BB+), Paraguay must improve its financing capabilities or allow the creation and alimentation of its...
September 24, 2021
Uruguay studies possibility of allowing legal marijuana into prisons
Daniel Radio, secretary-general of the National Drug Board (JND), the presidential agency responsible for implementing drug policies in Uruguay, spoke...
September 24, 2021
Chile to restart migrant deportation flights after upsurge in crossings from Bolivia border area
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, announced the resumption of the expulsion flights, after...
September 23, 2021
Unions and left-wing demand decent wages and an end to corruption in Panama
Unions and left-wing militants protested this Wednesday in front of the Parliament of Panama, in the capital, in repudiation of...
September 23, 2021
International LGBTQ+ tourism association asks Uruguay to lead and spread inclusion to the region
The president of the International LGBTQ+ Tourism Association (IGLA), Felipe Cárdenas, asked Uruguay on Wednesday to lead the transition towards...
September 23, 2021