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Gustavo Petro and Nicolás Maduro congratulate their Mexican counterpart

Gustavo Petro and Nicolás Maduro congratulate their Mexican counterpart

Through their X accounts, the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela, Gustavo Petro and Nicolás Maduro, congratulated their new Mexican counterpart Claudia Sheinbaum, who won the elections with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes, according to a quick count of samples carried out by the electoral referee, establishing herself as the first female president of ...

Prosecutor of the 'Villarjo case' asks to prosecute BBVA with an oral trial in the middle of the takeover bid for Sabadell

Prosecutor of the 'Villarjo case' asks to prosecute BBVA with an oral trial in the middle of the takeover bid for Sabadell

The prosecutor of the 'Villarjo case', Alejandro Cabaleiro, has asked Judge Manuel García Castellón this month to open an oral trial against Bbva, former president Francisco González and several directors and former directors of the entity for alleged crimes of bribery and revelation of secrets. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has requested that an oral trial ...

Codelco and SQM signed an agreement for a new lithium company in northern Chile

Codelco and SQM signed an agreement for a new lithium company in northern Chile

Financial Diary – Santiago Late at night, and after reviewing a contract of more than 600 pages, the boards of directors of Codelco and SQM gave the go-ahead to the pact that creates a company with a state majority and that will operate by 2060. The pact was signed by the presidents of Codelco, Máximo ...

Panama Canal increases the maximum authorized draft for ships due to more rain

Panama Canal increases the maximum authorized draft for ships due to more rain

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced an increase to 45 feet (about 13.71 meters) of the maximum draft authorized for vessels in the Neopanamax locks of the sea route, from the 44 feet allowed until now, before the arrival of the canal season. rains. The Central American canal, through which around 5% of global trade ...

Lower interest rate does not ensure the country's growth, says Central Bank of Peru

Lower interest rate does not ensure the country's growth, says Central Bank of Peru

The president of the Central Bank of Peru, Julio Velarde, said this Thursday that reducing the interest rate does not define the growth of the economy in the country, days after the minister of the sector asked the head of the monetary organization be more proactive to reactivate the country that entered recession last year. ...

ConocoPhillips to acquire Marathon Oil in deal worth at least $17 billion

ConocoPhillips to acquire Marathon Oil in deal worth at least $17 billion

ConocoPhillips agreed to acquire Marathon Oil Corp. in an all-stock deal that valued the company at about $17 billion, spreading a significant buying spree among the largest players in the United States oil and gas industry. The move expands ConocoPhillips' presence in domestic shale fields from Texas to North Dakota and gives the company reserves ...

Argentina faces heating shortage amid coldest winter since 1980

Argentina faces heating shortage amid coldest winter since 1980

Argentina races to secure fuel supplies as winter rages in southern hemispherewith lower than expected temperatures that trigger demand for domestic heating. Additional imports are a headache for the Government of President Javier Milei, that needs to accumulate dollar reserves through trade surpluses – not lose them – in order to lift the currency controls ...

North Korea plans to launch a space satellite between May 27 and June 4

North Korea plans to launch a space satellite between May 27 and June 4

North Korea notified Japan of its plan launch a rocket that will carry a space satellite towards the Yellow Sea and the east of the island of Luzon between May 27 and June 4the Japanese Coast Guard reported on Monday. The notification It comes ahead of a trilateral summit between Japan, South Korea and China ...