HAVANA – Cubans elected Miguel Diaz Canel as the new president on Thursday in an historic moment which brought an end to the Castro era. Outgoing president Raul Castro confirmed to Mr. Diaz Canel that […]
BRASILIA – A Brazilian court on Wednesday turned down ex-president Lula da Silva’s latest appeal against his 12-year sentence for corruption, seemingly putting his bid for a political comeback even farther out of reach. The […]
SANTIAGO – Latin America’s largest carrier said Wednesday it cancelled an additional 441 flights after a flight attendants union rejected a contract offer from the Chile-based airline, bringing the number of grounded passengers to 200,000 […]
CARACAS – This week, hundreds of Venezuelans swarmed outside the Chilean Consulate hoping to get a new visa created by Pinera administration to offer a home to poor people leaving the crisis-hit country. However, the […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera proposed a bill to boost free technical education, days ahead of a planned student march in Santiago, the first such protest since he took office a month ago. Piñera, […]
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that “the high crime rate will only get higher” along California’s border with Mexico after the state’s Democratic governor turned down administration plans to deploy National Guard troops […]
SANTIAGO – Nearly 5,000 suspected criminals were taken into custody after a massive raid by Chile police in the course of 24 hours over the weekend, according to the Crime Prevention Unit. A total of […]
SANTIAGO – LATAM Airlines, the largest air transport group in Latin America, would be looking to create a new low-cost airline, in the midst of the boom in flights in that segment, a newspaper from […]
SANTIAGO – Chile-based LATAM Airlines and a union of flight attendants for subsidiary LAN Express reached an initial labor agreement early on Tuesday, the union and the airline said, even as the union cautioned that […]
LIMA – Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra opened on Friday the eighth Summit of the Americas, a conference that draws together the leaders of North, Central and South America, decrying widespread corruption and urging regional leaders […]
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