CARACAS – Venezuela’s populist leader Nicolas Maduro won a new six-year term on Sunday, but his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a […]
MONTEVIDEO – Little by little, around noon on this Sunday, Venezuelans living in Uruguay gathered in front of the Venezuelan embassy in Montevideo to protest against what they consider “unfair and fraudulent” presidential elections. The […]
TORONTO – Hot Docs wrapped its 25th edition this month with record-breaking audience numbers reaching an estimated 223,000. The 11-day event featured 471 public screenings of 247 films on 16 screens across Toronto, an internationally […]
CARACAS – Polls opened in Venezuela on Sunday for the South American nation’s presidential election – widely seen as a foregone conclusion. The 55-year-old Socialist leader cast his ballot on Sunday in an election that […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean economy grew by 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, the largest quarterly growth since 2013, the central bank announced Friday. According to the institution, most sectors of the economy […]
SANTIAGO – Swedish furniture giant Ikea is poised to expand into South America, with stores planned in at least three countries in the region. The world’s biggest furniture retailer has signed a partnership with Chilean […]
HOUSTON – The Texas governor has confirmed ten people were killed and 10 others injured in a shooting by a student at a high school on Friday. The attacker, who is in police custody on […]
SANTIAGO – All of Chile’s 34 Roman Catholic bishops announced their resignation Friday in the wake of a child sex scandal and cover-up in Chile. “We, all the bishops present in Rome, have tendered our […]
HAVANA – More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media said on Friday. Three people have survived but are in a […]
SANTIAGO – China’s Tianqi Lithium has agreed to acquire a 24 percent stake in Chile’s SQM, one of the world’s largest lithium producers, from Canada’s Nutrien (TSX:NTR) in a deal worth $4.07 billion, the companies […]
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