BOGOTA (Reuters) – Four Colombian Indigenous children who survived a plane crash in the country’s Amazon region and lived for more than five weeks in the jungle have been released from hospital after a 34-day stay, the government said on Friday. The children, aged 1 through 13, survived the May 1 crash that killed their…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A floating barrier of orange buoys put in the Rio Grande by the Texan government to hinder migrants crossing into the U.S. violates a water treaty and may encroach on Mexican territory, incoming Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Friday. “We have sent a diplomatic letter (to the U.S.) on…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Next week’s summit of leaders from the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean is unlikely to unlock a proposed EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, officials from both sides said on Friday. More than 50 leaders are expected to attend the EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) summit in Brussels on…
By Jesús Aguado, Andres Gonzalez and Iain Withers MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) – Santander is accelerating growth of its investment bank by hiring at least 50 bankers primarily in the United States, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Spain’s biggest bank is best-known as a retail lender in Europe and Latin America, but wants…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced a former top Venezuelan diplomat to 20 years in jail over the 2012 murder of the Latin American nation’s acting ambassador at her home in an upmarket Nairobi neighbourhood. Dwight Sagaray, who was the first secretary at the embassy, was convicted, along with three Kenyan nationals,…
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil is to launch a debt renegotiation program for millions of lower-income individuals using state guarantees in September, fulfilling a campaign promise of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. About 71.9 million people in Latin America’s largest economy have been blacklisted, according to credit bureau Serasa, after families’ budgets were strained by…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s retail sales fell in May and missed expectations, government statistics agency IBGE showed on Friday, as half of the segments presented a decline for the month. Sales dropped 1.0% in May compared with the previous month, missing expectations of a 0.0% increase from economists polled by Reuters. The indicator also decreased…
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel promised on Friday his country would take part “very constructively” in a European Union summit next week with Latin America and the Caribbean, just days after the EU’s parliament called for sanctions against him. Diaz-Canel met his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de…
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian labor union has accused JBS SA of submitting dozens of workers to “degrading conditions,” according to a class action suit filed against the world’s biggest meatpacker and its suppliers this week. The union filed the claim on behalf of at least 76 people, including members of…
(This July 13 story has been refiled to change the pronoun used to quote the judge, to she, from he, in paragraph 3) AMSTERDAM/BOGOTA (Reuters) – The World Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Nicaragua seeking to define and expand its deep sea economic rights beyond those previously established in a long-running maritime border…