Government stockholders voted to close the publication La Nación permanently at a board meeting this morning. Assets will be liquidated and 117 workers will be left unemployed. The Chilean government holds 70% of the company’s stock and therefore a decisive role in the publication’s future. According to a TeleSUR correspondent, government representatives were the only […]

Last Thursday, Paraguayan president Federico Franco signed a decree that limited the rigor of environmental studies and shifted regulatory responsibilities. The decree renders environmental studies no longer requisite for the authorisation of genetically modified (GM) agricultural products. Technical bodies such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) will now hold greatest power over decisions […]

Paraguayan president Federico Franco explained Paraguay’s recent leadership shift and aired foreign affairs concerns to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Sunday afternoon. Franco is currently attending the 67th United Nations General Assembly in New York City. “The Secretary General was well aware of events in Paraguay. He asked about the killings at Curuguaty which triggered […]

Mexico has sent soldiers to patrol a suburb of Mexico City to combat escalating drug-related violence that is beginning to encroach on the capital for the first time . Nezahualcoyotl is an area located to the East of the city centre which has suffered recently from a conflict between two rival drug cartels. Up until […]

Yesterday President Juan Manuel Santos announced his intention to re-form Colombia’s national peace council. The decision came after a meeting with the Commissions for Peace of the Colombian Congress. The president declared his desire “to revive and summon” the peace council and spoke of a need to “update its make-up and function”. With that in […]

Carlos ‘Chaco’ Alvarez, the head of a UNASUR mission to Caracas that will oversee the coming election, yesterday declared his support for the Venezuelan electoral system. Upon arrival in Venezuela’s capital city, ahead of the October 7th election, Alvarez announced “Venezuela has one of the most advanced and reliable electoral systems from the region and […]

After 15 years, the DEA is reopening its office in Uruguay because of the growing transit of cocaine in the region.

Average life expectancy in Latin America rose from 29 years in 1900 to 74 years in 2010 according to a study released today by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Storms with 100 km/hr winds hit Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay early Wednesday morning, leaving nine people dead. Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, was hit the hardest with over 5,000 houses destroyed, according to the Secretary of National Emergency (SEN). Storms in Asunción had winds above 140 km/hr causing electricity outages and damage to roads. […]

Uruguayan President José Mujica will greet a Venezuelan ship transporting industrial chemicals later today in Montevideo, as a symbol of Venezuela’s recent inclusion in Mercosur. Mercosur is the regional free trade agreement that regroups Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and, since July 2012, Venezuela.