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A blacked out traffic light after a power outage in Havana on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
US-Cuba relations

Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in 2 months

Cuba’s power grid collapses again, leaving the entire island in the dark.

Peru

Peru rocked by president’s nose job controversy

Mexico

Mexico raids stores selling counterfeit Chinese goods, vows national crackdown

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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.

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The Port of Chanca. Photo: EPA-EFE
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.

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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.

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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.

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Illustration: Henry Wong

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.

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.

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.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday. Photo: EPA-EFE
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.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
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.

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.

Venezuela

US calls Venezuela opposition’s Gonzalez ‘president-elect’

The Biden administration’s use of the term prompted a furious reaction from Caracas.

Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia voting in Caracas earlier this year. Photo: AFP
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.

Residents question a person who is not from the neighbourhood after an attempted overnight attack by gangs. Photo: Reuters
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.

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.

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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.

People receive their loved ones following their release after being arrested during protests over the disputed Venezuelan elections. Photo: Reuters
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’.

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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.

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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.

The scene where a man died after an explosion in front of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court. Photo: AFP
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.

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The entrance of the Lima Convention Center, part of the government complex where the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit is taking place this week. Peru: AFP
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.

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.

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.

Cuban children play on a road after Hurricane Rafael last week. Photo: AP
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.

Three pirarucu fish, captured by fishermen, on a floating warehouse in San Raimundo settlement, Medio Jurua region, Amazonia State, Brazil, on September 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)
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.

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.

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last updated:
23 August, 2024
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