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27 Aug 19
Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
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27 Aug 19
An international anti-corruption commission is being kicked out of Guatemala, with its supporters blaming the US for being too focused on migration in the region to defend it.
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23 Aug 19
Activists have blamed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest.
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23 Aug 19
Three years on from the Panama Papers data leak, France has signed an agreement with Panama to try to fight tax evasion.
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20 Aug 19
Argentina would struggle to repay a loan to the IMF under the current “impossible” conditions, the opposition presidential candidate has claimed.
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15 Aug 19
Brazil has privatised nearly $20bn of assets and investments since the election of right-wing populist president Jair Bolsonaro, according to a government minister.
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13 Aug 19
Argentina’s currency plummeted yesterday after the current president lost an election primary against a centre-left opponent.
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6 Aug 19
Cryptocurrency transactions in Brazil must now be reported to the government’s tax office in a bid by the authorities to hamper gang activity.
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1 Aug 19
Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is likely to stall, according to the UN, especially in South America.
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23 Jul 19
Population growth in Latin America and the Caribbean is slowing down and the number of people living in the region will hit a maximum in about 2058.
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12 Jul 19
The Inter-American Development Bank is to lend Ecuador $300m to help improve fiscal management in the Andean country, it has announced.
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2 Jul 19
Latin American and Caribbean countries must bolster their capacity to mobilise public revenues by strengthening tax collection if they are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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1 Jul 19
Mexico is considering issuing its first ‘Panda bond’ – debt denominated in Chinese yuan – in an effort to broaden the country’s investor base.
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28 Jun 19
Democrats in the US congress have backed a bill to rush $4.5bn emergency humanitarian aid to the southern border amid headlines about the suffering of migrants.
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27 Jun 19
A government commission has been launched into a $1.2bn loan borrowed by Papua New Guinea’s previous government after a damning report by a watchdog.
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18 Jun 19
A massive blackout that cut energy supplies to the entire population of Argentina has put the spotlight on the country’s crumbling infrastructure.
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7 Jun 19
Protests have rocked Honduras this week after a government u-turn on public sector reforms failed to quell anger among state employees.
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4 Jun 19
Brazil’s hawkish economy minister is poised to take a major U-turn by embarking on a fiscal stimulus in a scramble to prevent recession.
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30 May 19
Brazil’s senate has voted to approve president Jair Bolsonaro’s revamp of executive government and to keep the government’s anti-money laundering department out of the control of the justice ministry.
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21 May 19
Efforts to tackle migration from Central America are at the heart of the region’s innovative effort to demonstrate it is focusing more on development than concerns over security.
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17 May 19
Brazilian students have led large protests against cuts to spending on higher education as the government struggles to bring a precarious fiscal situation under control.
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13 May 19
Critics of the country’s progressive president were quick to react to a short-term setback while ignoring the bigger picture, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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10 May 19
Mexico needs a new economic strategy to boost growth and reduce high levels of poverty and inequality, according to the OECD.
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9 May 19
Unprecedented and sudden migration flows have prompted the Inter-American Development Bank to allocate special funds to help countries integrate newcomers and defuse tensions.
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9 May 19
Fintech promises to slash the cost of sending remittances home for Latin American migrant workers in other countries.