Tag Archives: Latin America

China has made progress over trade deals with Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, having already penned agreements with Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, with the US losing its foothold in the region. Source link

Agenda and guest list not finalised until days before, a controversy that could have been defused if handled earlier: one critic calls it ‘amateur hour’. Source link

White House instead lays out ‘affirmative vision’ touting democracy, multilateral bank activity and reduced migration at controversial meeting. Source link

Uruguay and Nicaragua endorse an initiative proposed by Xi Jinping last month. Source link

Gabriel Boric was hailed as the face of a new Latin American left when he won Chile’s presidential race in a landslide. But just six weeks in office, Boric’s disapproval rating is up more than 30 points. Source link

Just days after Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez signed his country up for China’s Belt and Road Initiative during a high-profile trip to Beijing this month, the spot price of lithium metal in the Chinese market reached 2 million yuan (US$315,000) per tonne for the first time – more than four …

The death toll from Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest per capita death rate. From the dusty highlands of Bolivia to the Brazilian metropolis of …