SANTIAGO – Four South American countries joined forces this week in a bid to combat illegal fishing by huge Chinese fleets off their coasts. Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru threatened measures “to prevent, discourage and […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera and and his Ecuadorian counterpart Lenin Moreno have signed a new Free Trade Agreement, which provides significant benefits for exporters and small and medium-sized companies. Piñera, who was accompanied […]
SANTIAGO – This week, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera appointed diplomats Rodrigo Pérez and Hugo Llanos as the country’s ambassadors in Ecuador and New Zealand, respectively. The appointments were announced by Chilean Foreign Minister, Teodoro Ribera, […]
SANTIAGO – LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline conglomerate in Latin America, has announced it is laying off as many as 1,400 employees from offices in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as a result of […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean government has announced that it will begin proceedings to withdraw from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the regional bloc from which it suspended its membership last year. Chile believes […]
SANTIAGO – South American countries on Friday launched the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur), a new regional bloc which seeks the “integration and strengthening of the region.” Presidents and representatives from Chile, […]
QUITO – Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled […]
QUITO – Today ministers from across Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting in Ecuador on how they can cooperate to end the regional humanitarian crisis caused by Venezuela’s economic collapse. Representatives from Chile, Brazil, […]
QUITO – A bus crash in Ecuador’s Andes mountains left 11 people dead, authorities said Saturday, bringing the country’s death toll from such accidents to 46 in the past three weeks. The bus was traveling […]
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 […]
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