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US-Cuba relations
Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in 2 months
Cuba’s power grid collapses again, leaving the entire island in the dark.
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Peru
Peru rocked by president’s nose job controversy
4 Dec 2024 - 11:09AM
Mexico
Mexico raids stores selling counterfeit Chinese goods, vows national crackdown
30 Nov 2024 - 4:44AM
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China trade
China extends reach into Latin America as crane exports pick up
China is expanding its maritime footprint in Latin America, with more exports of cranes amid rising tensions with the US.
27 Nov 2024 - 9:42PM
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Brazil
Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘actively’ took part in coup plot against Lula, police say
The ex-president was also ‘fully aware’ of an alleged plan by elite soldiers to assassinate his successor, the 884-page report adds.
27 Nov 2024 - 5:53AM
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Fame and celebrity
Disturbing new details emerge in Liam Payne death investigation
New footage reveals Liam Payne’s struggle with hotel staff before his fatal fall from a Buenos Aires balcony last month.
26 Nov 2024 - 5:50PM
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Diplomacy
Xi’s South American tour: China takes centre stage as US heads for the wings
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s nine-day trip to Peru and Brazil shows Beijing’s growing profile while US awaits the coming of Trump 2.0.
26 Nov 2024 - 10:59AM
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Left-wing candidate Yamandu Orsi wins Uruguay presidential election
South American nation joins others around the world in rebuking the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections.
25 Nov 2024 - 1:22PM
China
Uruguay’s once-dull election has become a dead heat in presidential run-off
Conservative governing party and left-leaning coalition locked in close run-off after failing to win outright majority in last month’s vote.
25 Nov 2024 - 4:51AM
Mexico
Mexico ditches Chinese products amid fears of exclusion from US-Canada trade pact
Mexican officials fear their country could be left out of the USMCA over alleged trade in Chinese steel and automotive products.
24 Nov 2024 - 1:37AM
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China trade
Amid US tariff threats, can port in Peru open up new markets for China?
US$3.5 billion Chancay port will initially be able to handle 1 million containers a year.
27 Nov 2024 - 5:33PM
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Brazil
Brazil police indict Bolsonaro and aides over alleged 2022 coup attempt
Ex-president Bolsonaro accused of plot to overthrow election result, but he rejects the accusations against him.
22 Nov 2024 - 12:04PM
Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes making him and wife ‘co-presidents’
Vice-President Rosario Murillo has become the face of the government as her husband rarely makes public appearances.
21 Nov 2024 - 11:12AM
Venezuela
US calls Venezuela opposition’s Gonzalez ‘president-elect’
The Biden administration’s use of the term prompted a furious reaction from Caracas.
20 Nov 2024 - 2:33PM
Crime
Bodies burned in streets after Haiti police, civilians kill 28 suspected gang members
Grisly scenes in Haiti’s capital as residents stand with police in a battle to repel the latest gang attack.
20 Nov 2024 - 11:34AM
Crime
Police arrest ex-Bolsonaro aide, 4 others, in alleged plot to kill Brazil’s Lula
The alleged plot involved killing Lula and his vice-president, and installing an “Institutional Crisis Management Office” to manage the coup’s aftermath.
19 Nov 2024 - 11:31PM
Social media
Brazil’s first lady insults Elon Musk at G20 social event
The swear word incident adds a new twist to Brazil’s already strained relationship with the tech billionaire right before the G20.
17 Nov 2024 - 11:50AM
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Venezuela
Venezuela frees more than 200 prisoners detained after election
The releases come after President Maduro said authorities would review the cases of those who might have been mistakenly arrested.
17 Nov 2024 - 11:05AM
Hong Kong economy
Hong Kong says new free-trade pact with Peru will spur business opportunities
Peruvian leader calls deal ‘new impetus for our companies to access one of the most competitive and dynamic markets in the world’.
17 Nov 2024 - 12:45AM
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US-China relations
Xi arrives in Peru for Apec, ready to sign 30 bilateral deals for China
A focal point of his visit will be the virtual inauguration of the South American country’s US$3.5 billion port funded by Beijing.
15 Nov 2024 - 10:09AM
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Brazil
Suspected bomber dead after trying to enter Brazil Supreme Court ahead of G20
Early indications are that it was a suicide, and no one else was hurt, vice-governor says.
14 Nov 2024 - 2:23PM
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
As Apec opens, the largest figure in attendance is not even there: Donald Trump
The US president-elect and his preference to shed, not support, multilateral institutions cast a looming shadow over Lima this week.
12 Nov 2024 - 6:00AM
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Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Chancay, Peru port project
The Chinese-funded megaport in Chancay, Peru, may reshape Pacific trade, but has also made the United States uneasy. This two-part series looks at the development of the project, its impact on global trade, its social cost and the implications for the whole of the South American continent.
12 Nov 2024 - 3:19AM
Mexico
Gunmen open fire in bar in central Mexico, killing 10 and injuring 13
At least one person was arrested following the deadly attack in a bar in downtown Santiago de Queretaro.
11 Nov 2024 - 10:01AM
Earthquakes
After hurricanes, 2 earthquakes jolt crisis-hit Cuba
Back-to-back earthquakes follow two hurricanes and two major blackouts in the last three weeks.
11 Nov 2024 - 3:05PM
Climate change
Amazon’s giant fish catch threatened by severe drought
Two years of drought has fishermen and indigenous communities requesting government aid, in what is being called a matter of climate justice.
9 Nov 2024 - 8:21PM
Argentina
Argentine beef exports hit highest level in more than 5 decades
Data showed that January-to-September beef exports totalled nearly 700,000 metric tons, with nearly 70 per cent bought by Chinese buyers.
8 Nov 2024 - 11:04AM
US presidential election 2024
Global South faces trickier US-China balancing act after Trump victory
The pledge to put 60 per cent tariffs on Chinese exports will have a major impact on economic decision-making across different continents.
7 Nov 2024 - 3:46PM
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23 August, 2024
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