News of central america

Brazil holds rates and sounds the alarm on rising inflation bets

02-02-2023 00:03 Brazil’s Central Bank kept its key interest rate unchanged and expressed concern about the costs of taming rising inflation expectations that have been fuelled by tensions with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s new government.

JOINT CURRENCY PLAN

Brazil and Argentina are discussing whether to combine currencies

23-01-2023 09:31 Argentina and Brazil are in the preliminary stages of renewing discussions on forming a common currency for financial and commercial transactions, the leaders of the two nations reveal.

Global pandemic

Covid-19 in the Americas: Cases fall in several countries, but deaths rise

10-02-2022 13:00 Covid-19 infections are beginning to decline in several countries in the Americas, but deaths have increased, the Pan American Health Organisation said Wednesday.

PRICE RISES IN AMERICAS

Brazil posts highest January inflation rate since 2016

09-02-2022 16:50 Brazil's inflation rate slowed in January, but still came in at the highest level for the month since 2016, the government said Wednesday.

Bloomberg

The carry trade is minting big returns in Latin America again

09-02-2022 15:32 The carry trade is roaring back in Latin America, home to some of the world’s most aggressive inflation-fighting central banks.

Central America

Deal ends Honduran legislative crisis as rebel backs down

08-02-2022 13:57 A legislative crisis that threatened the presidency of Honduras' first woman president is resolved as rebel lawmaker signs deal to withdraw his claim to be speaker of Congress.

INFLATION ON RISE

Chile's Central Bank hikes rates again as inflation hits 14-year high

27-01-2022 08:06 Chile's Central Bank announces a third successive hike in its benchmark interest rate in a bid to contain inflation, which is at a 14-year high.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Xiomara Castro to be sworn in as first woman president of Honduras

27-01-2022 08:01 Honduras' president-elect Xiomara Castro made a last ditch attempt late Wednesday night to solve a congressional crisis, just hours left before her inauguration as the country's first female leader is due to take place.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender

25-01-2022 18:45 The IMF on Tuesday called on El Salvador to change course and stop using Bitcoin as legal tender, citing "large risks" posed by the cryptocurrency.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Honduras political crisis deepens ahead of president-elect's swearing-in

25-01-2022 18:18 Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner due to attend president-elect Xiomara's Castro's swearing-in ceremony in two days.

BRAZILIAN ECONOMY

Brazilian families slammed by debt, inflation

06-01-2022 12:04 Even though 2021 had been anticipated as the year of economic recovery in Brazil, high inflation and the complications derived from the pandemic, are forcing Brazilians to get more and more into debt, despite the rising interest rates.

CRISIS IN NICARAGUA

OAS finds Nicaragua in breach of the Inter-American Democratic Charter

10-12-2021 03:26 Argentina abstains in Organisation of American States vote against Daniel Ortega’s regime.

BLOOMBERG

Inflation is raging everywhere, but it’s worst in Latin America

23-11-2021 13:57 Inflation shocks are spreading pain around the world, but nowhere is it as bad as Latin America.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

Argentina begins taxing cryptocurrency, reversing old stance

17-11-2021 15:17 Transactions involving cryptocurrencies will be subject to government's tax on bank credit and debts, effective immediately.

Elections in Nicaragua

Timeline: Nicaragua's authoritarian slide

08-11-2021 10:10 Under ring-of-steel security, Nicaragua opened its polls for presidential elections dismissed as a "sham" by the international community, with all viable challengers to long-term leader Daniel Ortega locked up or in exile.

Elections in Nicaragua

Nicaragua's Ortega wins new term in 'sham' election after opponents jailed

08-11-2021 10:05 Daniel Ortega won a fourth consecutive presidential term in Nicaragua Monday in a vote denounced by the United States as a "pantomime election." Authorities had banned country's main opposition alliance from contesting seats.

Nicaragua's authoritarian slide

Ortega and Murillo: Nicaragua's power couple

08-11-2021 09:57 Nicaragua's first couple, President Daniel Ortega and his wife Vice-President Rosario Murillo, are both in their 70s but have shown no desire to relinquish their vice-like grip on power.

Elections in Nicaragua

Ortega a shoo-in to win 'sham' Nicaragua vote

07-11-2021 09:02 Nicaraguans go to the polls Sunday for presidential elections dismissed as a "sham" by the international community.

DIPLOMACY

Argentina abstains from OAS vote criticising Nicaraguan government

21-10-2021 16:10 Alberto Fernández administration refuses to back Organisation of American States resolution calling for the release of political prisoners in Nicaragua.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

A million bolivars become one as Venezuela recalibrates battered currency

30-09-2021 22:30 For the third time in 13 years, Venezuela on Friday will slash zeroes off its inflation-battered currency, the bolivar. This time, it will shed six zeroes, for a total of 14 since 2008.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

El Salvador president says half a million using new bitcoin wallet

14-09-2021 11:56 There are now more than half a million people using El Salvador's bitcoin wallet, President Nayib Bukele said Monday.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

The problem with Latin America’s rate hikes: they barely work

09-09-2021 14:25 From Brazil to Mexico, banks tighten faster than global peers; Unstable politics and off-the-books economies limit the impact

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador

07-09-2021 08:39 El Salvador officially becomes the first country in the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender.

BLOOMBERG

Cuba lays groundwork to legalise cryptocurrency transactions

30-08-2021 10:43 Communist government is trying to legalise and regulate the growing use of cryptocurrencies on the island as citizens ramp up transactions to evade state controls.

BLOOMBERG

Paraguay seeks to wind down stimulus as economy bounces back

27-08-2021 12:27 Paraguay will continue to dial back pandemic stimulus next year as a fast growing economy cushions austerity measures that have proved unpopular in other South American countries.

OPPOSITION CLAMPDOWN

Nicaragua cancels work permits of six foreign NGOs, including Oxfam

17-08-2021 13:50 Nicaragua on Monday cancelled operating permits for six NGOs from the United States and Europe, just days after President Daniel Ortega's government was sanctioned for arresting prominent political opponents.

CONFIRMATION

Nicaragua President Ortega to stand for re-election

02-08-2021 22:51 As expected, Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega will stand for a fourth consecutive term in November's general election, his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party confirms.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

El Salvador is banking on bitcoin, but will it work?

22-06-2021 15:28 El Salvador will soon become the only country in the world accepting bitcoin as legal tender, a cutting-edge but potentially risky new avenue for its large expat community to send money back home.

CRACKDOWN ON CANDIDATES

Fifth presidential hopeful arrested in Nicaragua

21-06-2021 11:40 A fifth would-be candidate for the Nicaraguan presidency was detained Sunday, police said, part of a mounting crackdown by President Daniel Ortega ahead of elections this year.

HUMAN RIGHTS & NICARAGUA

Rights groups slam government for failing to back OAS vote on Nicaragua

18-06-2021 23:16 Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International strongly criticise Argentina’s government for abstaining in OAS vote condemning Nicaragua's jailing of opposition leaders.

Human rights

Argentina abstains in vote condemning Nicaragua's jailing of opposition leaders

16-06-2021 00:41 Casa Rosada fails to endorse OAS resolution against Nicaragua demanding "immediate release of the presidential candidates and all political prisoners."

Cryptocurrencies

A crypto-revolution in Argentina

12-06-2021 00:17 Argentina’s economy is prime breeding ground for the crypto-world. And the populist promise of cheap energy here is a crypto-miner’s dream.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

El Salvador first country to approve bitcoin as legal tender

09-06-2021 09:33 Lawmakers in El Salvador approve bill that will eventually allow digital currency to be used for many aspects of daily life, from property purchases to tax contributions.

Nicaraguan Presidency

Nicaragua arrests another opposition presidential hopeful

07-06-2021 22:59 A Nicaraguan court ordered Arturo Cruz, an opposition politician, to be held in preventive custody for three months on "provocation" allegations days after another challenger of President Daniel Ortega was placed under house arrest.

US Border Crisis

Massive increase of migrant children at Mexico-US border, says UNICEF

20-04-2021 13:09 According to UNICEF, Mexican authorities are recording an average of 275 new migrant children a day waiting to cross into the United States or having been sent back from the northern side of the border.

RATE RISE

Brazil hikes interest rate, eyeing inflation

18-03-2021 11:39 First rate hike in six years for Latin America's biggest economy. Central Bank indicates another hike of the same magnitude could be coming in May.

News of central america

Brazil holds rates and sounds the alarm on rising inflation bets

Brazil and Argentina are discussing whether to combine currencies

Covid-19 in the Americas: Cases fall in several countries, but deaths rise

Brazil posts highest January inflation rate since 2016

The carry trade is minting big returns in Latin America again

Deal ends Honduran legislative crisis as rebel backs down

Chile's Central Bank hikes rates again as inflation hits 14-year high

Xiomara Castro to be sworn in as first woman president of Honduras

IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender

Honduras political crisis deepens ahead of president-elect's swearing-in

Brazilian families slammed by debt, inflation

OAS finds Nicaragua in breach of the Inter-American Democratic Charter

Inflation is raging everywhere, but it’s worst in Latin America

Argentina begins taxing cryptocurrency, reversing old stance

Timeline: Nicaragua's authoritarian slide

Nicaragua's Ortega wins new term in 'sham' election after opponents jailed

Ortega and Murillo: Nicaragua's power couple

Ortega a shoo-in to win 'sham' Nicaragua vote

Argentina abstains from OAS vote criticising Nicaraguan government

A million bolivars become one as Venezuela recalibrates battered currency

El Salvador president says half a million using new bitcoin wallet

The problem with Latin America’s rate hikes: they barely work

In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador

Cuba lays groundwork to legalise cryptocurrency transactions

Paraguay seeks to wind down stimulus as economy bounces back

Nicaragua cancels work permits of six foreign NGOs, including Oxfam

Nicaragua President Ortega to stand for re-election

El Salvador is banking on bitcoin, but will it work?

Fifth presidential hopeful arrested in Nicaragua

Rights groups slam government for failing to back OAS vote on Nicaragua

Argentina abstains in vote condemning Nicaragua's jailing of opposition leaders

A crypto-revolution in Argentina

El Salvador first country to approve bitcoin as legal tender

Nicaragua arrests another opposition presidential hopeful

Massive increase of migrant children at Mexico-US border, says UNICEF

Brazil hikes interest rate, eyeing inflation

Lucio Dupuy trial: Mother, partner found guilty of killing five-year-old

Climbers in Argentina discover corpse frozen inside glacier

Verdict due in trial for horrific killing of five-year-old Lucio Dupuy

Gruesome killing of five-year-old Lucio Dupuy shocks Argentina

Supercopa goes global as Racing see off Boca in UAE

Quién es Ana Clara Pérez Ballester, la jueza que dio la tenencia a la madre de Lucio

Felipe Pigna: "El Conicet estableció que la mayoría de los argentinos tiene sangre indígena"

Caso Lucio: Adepa repudió el "hostigamiento en línea" contra la editora de género de TN

Fue a comprar ibuprofeno para su hijo y le dieron viagra: el niño terminó internado

Regresó en avión desde Canadá y quiso ingresar 100 pares de zapatillas, pero la aduana lo detuvo