QUITO – A bus carrying travelers from Colombia and Venezuela crashed in Ecuador on Tuesday, killing 24 people and injuring 22 others, according to the Quito Fire Department. The bus was traveling to Quito when […]
BOGOTÁ – Colombian soccer player Alejandro Peñaranda Trujillo was murdered early Friday morning in the Aguablanca district in an attack apparently motivated by a mystery woman. The 24-year-old centre-forward, who was on loan at Cortulua […]
LIMA – The fourteen members of the Lima Group have declared they do not recognize the re-election of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in a Sunday vote marred by international accusations that it was rigged. All […]
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 […]
CARACAS – Between 2015 and 2017, the number of Venezuelan immigrants in Latin America went from 89,000 to 900,000 people, which represents an increase of more than 900%, according to the International Organization for Migration […]
SANTIAGO – The union of cabin workers for LAN Express, a subsidiary of Chile-based LATAM Airlines group, unilaterally said on Thursday that they would revert back to previous working conditions after 17 days of strike […]
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 – Venezuela’s shortage of food and medicines reached the Catholic religious field when a donation of wafers from the Church of Colombia became necessary for the Easter week. Not even religion manages to escape […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with regional leaders in Peru during his first trip as president to Latin America next month, the White House has confirmed. “This travel demonstrates the President’s […]
SANTIAGO – With a rise of just 1.6% of the Gross Domestic Product in 2017, Chile returns to occupy for the fourth consecutive year the last place in terms of economic growth among the countries […]
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