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Mexico to import record amount of corn from Brazil instead US

2017-05-19 07:08:25 UTC
MEXICO CITY — Mexico expects to import a record amount of yellow corn from Brazil this year after its livestock producers secured lower prices in deals with suppliers on a recent visit to South America as NAFTA talks loom, a Mexican official said ...

General Electric: We're very supportive of NAFTA

2017-05-12 19:35:46 UTC
MONTERREY, MEXICO — General Electric Co's chief executive on Friday praised Mexico as a big part of its future growth and said the company is "very supportive" of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that U.S. far-right nationalist Pres...

Warning directed at Trump: Mexico outlines plans for alternatives on trade

2017-05-12 18:44:03 UTC
In the warning directed at the U.S. far-right nationalist President Donald Trump, Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, outlines plans for alternatives on trade. He sent a stark message to Trump, saying an upcoming visit by Mexican offic...

Will Emmanuel Macron be France's next president?

2017-05-07 05:20:00 UTC
PARIS — French voters will decide today whether a pro-European Union centrist or an anti-EU, anti-immigration far-rightist will lead them for the next five years. Opinion polls indicate they will pick Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old ex-economy m...

The U.S. Doesn't Have the Money to Build Trump's Wall

2017-05-01 06:03:18 UTC
U.S. Congress would not provide any money for Trump's promised border wall with Mexico, Several important White House initiatives were rejected by the Republican and Democratic negotiators, including money for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border t...

WTO: Trump lost his first trade battle against Mexico

2017-04-26 00:12:26 UTC
GENEVA — Mexico can impose annual trade sanctions worth $163.23 million against the United States after winning a dispute over trade in tuna fish, a World Trade Organization arbitrator ruled on Tuesday. Mexico's economy ministry said it planned...

Death toll in Venezuelan protests reaches nine

2017-04-21 14:22:19 UTC
A man was killed in a protest in the Venezuelan capital on Thursday night, an official said on Friday, marking the ninth death in a wave of sometimes violent demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro's government. Melvin Guaitan died of a...

Venezuela's opposition renewed nationwide protests

2017-04-20 17:52:06 UTC
CARACAS — Venezuela's opposition renewed nationwide protests on Thursday to pressure the government of President Nicolas Maduro to hold elections and improve a collapsing economy, a day after three people were killed in similar demonstrations. ...

Mexico's Economy Thriving Despite Trump's Hostility

2017-04-12 19:38:14 UTC
MEXICO CITY — The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president last year raised the specter of economic recession in Mexico, sent the country's peso into a tailspin, and threatened local industry such as car making. But four months on, Mexican au...

Protesters marched through Caracas and cities across Venezuela

2017-04-08 19:18:07 UTC
By Alexandra Ulmer and Girish Gupta | CARACAS Protesters marched through Caracas and cities across Venezuela on Saturday as the government's banning of a top opposition leader from office breathed life into a fractured movement and fueled the fir...

More Than 254 People died in Colombia landslide

2017-04-02 01:00:42 UTC
By Julia Symmes Cobb and Nelson Bocanegra | BOGOTA — A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border province of Putumayo sent mud and debris crashing onto houses overnight, killing at least 254 people and injuring scores. Heavy rains caused ...

Opposition Branded Venezuela's President A "Dictator" After Court Took Over Congress

2017-03-31 04:08:36 UTC
By Diego Oré and Andrew Cawthorne | <h3>CARACAS — Opposition leaders branded Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" on Thursday after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy political...

Mexican companies should not participate in Trump's border wall

2017-03-22 05:20:11 UTC
By Anthony Esposito | MEXICO CITY — Mexico's government on Tuesday warned Mexican companies that it would not be in their best "interests" to participate in the construction of U.S. President Donald Trump's border wall, though there will be no...

Trump's Border Wall: Enough Money To Cover A Mile

2017-03-02 10:49:34 UTC
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | DHS has just $20 million for Trump's border wall. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s promise to use existing funds to begin immediate construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has hit a financial roadblock...

Trump's trade war: Mexico wants to tax U.S. goods

2017-02-25 09:00:38 UTC
By Frank Jack Daniel | MEXICO CITY — An emboldened Mexico hardened its opposition to President Donald Trump on Friday by saying it would retaliate if the United States imposed a border tax and that it can afford to lose financial aid that migh...

Mexico gave a cool reception to visiting senior U.S. officials

2017-02-23 19:41:01 UTC
By Alexandra Alper and Noe Torres | MEXICO CITY — Mexico gave a cool reception to visiting senior U.S. officials due to a controversy over deportations of illegal immigrants, with one minister playing down the chances that a planned meeting wi...

Mexico 'ready for the trade war'- Relations to US 'as bad as war times'

2017-01-29 19:08:22 UTC
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said the feud had sparked a sense of solidarity in Mexico. "Trump has brought back a very strong Mexican spirit and we’re ready for the trade war, and we’re ready, of course, for not paying for that wall," he t...

Singer of 'La Lambada' Loalwa Braz found dead in Brazil

2017-01-19 18:04:21 UTC
Loalwa Braz, the Brazilian singer best known for the 1980s hit Lambada, has been found dead in a burnt-out car in Brazil. Local police confirmed it was Braz, but the circumstances of her death are unknown. The singer, who was 63, was discovered ...

Pena Nieto: Mexico will not pay for the wall Trump plans to build

2017-01-18 04:05:07 UTC
Pena Nieto said his government would seek to diversify business ties with Asia and Latin American countries where it had room for improvement and And we will not pay for the wall Trump plans to build. By Dave Graham | MEXICO CITY Mexico said o...

Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has died aged 90

2016-11-26 15:31:07 UTC
"History will judge the enormous impact" of Cuba's late leader Fidel Castro on the world - US President Obama. The revolutionary icon, one of the world’s best-known and most controversial leaders, Fidel Castro has died aged 90. One thing all...

Donald Trump headed to Mexico to meet President Nieto

2016-08-31 05:12:54 UTC
Republican presidential candidate – who wants to build a border wall – will meet Enrique Peña Nieto on Wednesday ahead of major immigration speech (REUTERS) - By Steve Holland | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sa...

U.S. swimmers lied about robbery: Brazil police

2016-08-19 01:32:25 UTC
REUTERS - Brazilian police are considering charging a group of U.S. Olympic swimmers with vandalism and giving false testimony, Rio's police chief said on Thursday, accusing them of lying about an incident that has marred South America's first Gam...

Brazil casts aside crisis in rousing Rio Games opening

2016-08-06 04:22:06 UTC
REUTERS - There was no glossing over history either: from the arrival of the Portuguese and their conquest of the indigenous populations to the use of African slave labor for 400 years. The clash of cultures, as the ceremony showed, is what makes ...

Messi is Messi: Argentina beats U.S. 4 - 0

2016-06-22 06:58:44 UTC
HOUSTON -- Lionel Messi and top-ranked Argentina were even better than advertised in Tuesday's Copa America semifinal, grabbing the lead against the host U.S. just three minutes in before Messi's inch-perfect free kick put the outcome beyond doubt...

Mexico to extradite "El Chapo" Guzman to U.S. — He will not face the death penalty

2016-05-21 09:06:00 UTC
Mexico to extradite drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to US — He will not face the death penalty. Mexico approved the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States on Friday after receiving guarantees he would not fa...