Latin America
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PM Modi departs for 5-nation tour: 'Visit will reinforce India's friendship across Global South'
India | Jul 02, 2025, 09:32 AM ISTOver the next eight days, the Prime Minister will be visiting Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil, and Namibia.
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Venezuela becomes first nation to lose all glaciers after last one downgraded to 'ice field'
World | May 10, 2024, 06:00 PM ISTVenezuela had six glaciers spanning 10 square km in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range but lost five of them by 2011. Climate scientists found that the last Humboldt glacier shrunk to an area of less than 2 hectares, thus downgrading it from a glacier to an ice field.
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Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalises abortion nationwide, says criminal charges 'unconstitutional'
World | Sep 07, 2023, 07:51 AM ISTMexico has joined Latin American countries of Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay and Argentina, who have legalised abortion practices.
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Donald Trump cancels Latin America trip to focus on Syria
World | Apr 10, 2018, 10:53 PM ISTTrump’s decision to skip the South America trip marks the first time an American president has not attended the summit. Vice President Mike Pence will travel in Trump’s place, attending the summit in Lima but not traveling to Colombia.
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Venezuela no longer a democracy, say Foreign ministers of 17 Latin American nations
World | Aug 09, 2017, 12:52 PM ISThe bloc on Tuesday also said the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly convened by President Nicolas Maduro and tasked with drafting a new Constitution was "illegitimate"
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China emerges as Latin America's lender of last resort
World | Feb 06, 2015, 07:42 AM ISTBeijing: As soon as she landed in Beijing this week, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner began lauding new deals with what she called the world's "No. 1 economy," ranging from two proposed nuclear power
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India the brightest spot in Asia Pacific region: S&P
World | Dec 09, 2014, 10:23 AM ISTWashington: India has emerged as the brightest spot in the Asia Pacific region as reform has picked up pace in the country in recent months, a top credit rating agency has said."India has been the
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Latin America applauds Obama's immigration plan
World | Nov 22, 2014, 11:42 AM ISTMexico City: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto praised President Barack Obama on Friday for his executive orders granting new rights to millions of people living illegally in the United States, calling it “an act of
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Israel positive about 'Make in India'' campaign: Netanyahu
World | Nov 07, 2014, 06:27 AM ISTTel Aviv: Responding favourably to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Make in India' initiative, his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh that his country is keen to take advantage of
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Royal Enfield to enter new markets in Latin America, SE Asia
Aug 12, 2014, 04:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: Royal Enfield, the motorcycle division of Eicher Motors, is looking to enter new markets in Latin America and South East Asia in the next three years as it seeks to expand its presence
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Infosys, IBM bag Rs 2,535 crore RBS deal
Oct 03, 2013, 09:45 PM ISTNEW DELHI: Infosys, India's second largest software services exporter, and software giantIBM have won a 300 million euro (about Rs 2,535 crore) contract to develop the computer system for the UK-based bank Williams & Glyn's.
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Venezuelans to elect Chavez's successor on April 14
World | Mar 10, 2013, 05:56 PM ISTCaracas, Mar 10: Venezuelans will vote on April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarised country.The constitution mandated the election
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Latin Americans Evacuate, But No Tsunami Damage
World | Mar 12, 2011, 09:34 AM ISTSantiago, (Chile), Mar 12: Islanders and coastal residents along Latin America's Pacific seaboard moved to higher ground Friday as a precaution against possible tsunami following the superquake that bashed northeastern Japan with huge waves.Officials, however,
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Congress Unhappy Over Book On Sonia Selling In Europe, Latin America
India | Mar 20, 2010, 01:21 PM ISTA book on the life of Congress president Sonia Gandhi named El Sari Rojo (The Red Saree) is selling briskly in bookshops in Spain, Italy and Latin America, reports Hindustan Times. Written by Spanish writer-