Latin America

Argentina will receive over 3.8 billion dollars in assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) this year, the bank’s head announced in an interview on Sunday, complimenting President Javier Milei’s reforms. IDB President Ilan Goldfajn commended...

Finance ministers from across Latin America and the Caribbean convened today in Washington, D.C., to discuss mobilizing US$372 billion over the next five years to combat the region’s water and sanitation crisis. The meeting, which gathered...

Most child-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators are off-pace to meet their targets by the 2030 deadline in Latin America and Caribbean, UNICEF warned on World Children’s Day. At the current pace, the region will not...

In a counter-firearms campaign across Central and South America, more than 14,000 people have been detained and 8,000 firearms have been seized, according to Interpol’s Tuesday report. In addition to guns, the raids seized 370 tonnes...

The leaders of 11 Latin American nations, including its two biggest economies, Brazil and Mexico, announced on Wednesday a plan to work together to address rampant inflation. The initiative was unveiled after a virtual meeting convened...

Volkswagen’s South Africa unit aims to develop new markets for its petrol and diesel cars in Asia and Latin America, its managing director said, as Europe restricts sales as part of a shift to electric vehicles....

From the age of one, children in Latin America and the Caribbean are at risk of violence at home, in school and on the street, a new regional UNICEF report reveals. A statistical profile of violence...

The Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, produced and licensed in Russia, was the first to arrive in Argentina in December 2020, bringing relief to Latin American countries that had been on the waiting list for vaccines developed...

Latin America’s recovery from the pandemic crisis is lagging the rest of the world and the economy will not return to its pre-pandemic level until 2024, the IMF warned Thursday, reports BSS. The persistent health crisis...

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that European countries would be able to recover from the spread of the coronavirus without re-imposing a complete lockdown. However, the World Bank has warned that the crisis could...