Bogotá Mayor submits report to the UN, defends police actions during protests
The Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia Lopez, delivered today a report to the representative of the Office in Colombia of the...
May 26, 2021Topic
Latin America
Petrobras’ Bolivian subsidiary has accounts blocked amid land dispute – sources
Petrobras Bolivia SA, a unit of the Brazilian state-run oil company, has had its accounts blocked by a Bolivian court...
May 26, 2021
Díaz-Canel says ”U.S. acts with cynicism” by keeping Cuba on terrorist list
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Wednesday that the U.S. "acts with cynicism" by keeping the island on the list of...
May 26, 2021
Violence against candidates escalates in final stretch of Mexican campaign
Violence has intensified in the final stretch of the campaign for the June 6 mid-term elections in Mexico, the largest...
May 26, 2021
Brazil creates net 120,900 formal jobs in April
According to the Ministry of Economy, in April, there were 1,381,767 new hires and 1,260,832 dismissals in the formal labor...
May 26, 2021
Colombian Ecopetrol warns of risk of fuel shortages due to refinery blockades
The Colombian state-owned oil company Ecopetrol warned on Wednesday of the risk of fuel shortages due to blockades on the...
May 26, 2021
El Salvador accumulates 2,229 Covid deaths (May 25)
The number of people who died in El Salvador due to covid-19, from mid-March 2020 to May 25, 2021, increased...
May 26, 2021
Labor unions demand aid for the poor and halt to privatizations in Brazil
Labor unions demand a halt to privatizations and more aid for Brazil's poor. The political battle over state asset sales....
May 26, 2021
Colombian protesters to march on provincial capitals to demand economic aid, social change
Unions and student groups are set to march on the capital cities of Colombia’s 32 provinces on Wednesday to demand...
May 26, 2021