The head of the Regional Health Department of Loreto, Carlos del Aguila CalAmp announced the start of the fumigation to prevent the spread of malaria and dengue fever in various parts of the city of Iquitos. The report indicated they have seen an increase of malaria in Iquitos. Read Article
Twelve patients are under medical observation to rule out infection acquired after the emergency room where they were, in the Heredia Hospital was flooded with sewage on Sunday. The deputy medical director of St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Johnny Alfaro Morales, reported that these people are doing exams and studies of bacteremia for the presence […]
The Ministry of Health decided yesterday to reopen the Hotel Barceló Playa Tambor, closed since 20 December, an outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting that sickened more than 200 guests. The lifting of the closure seals made this Monday, said Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila. The decision was taken after receiving the report of Carlos Venegas, […]
Goldman Sachs gave buy ratings to Brazilian carriers Gol Linhas Aereas Sa and Tam Sa , as Latin America’s middle class expands further amid strong economic activity. “Less than a third of Brazilian families are potential air travelers today,” the financial services firm said in note to clients. Read Article
An explosion on a bus in Guatemala City has killed at least five people and left more than a dozen others with serious burns. Police think the blast was caused by a home-made fire bomb which was either thrown onto the bus or left on board, causing it to burst into flames. Read Article
Mexico plans a shake-up of its corruption-ridden immigration institute, officials said, after a year that saw some of the worst atrocities against illegal migrants trekking through the country – including the mass slaughter of 72 Central and South Americans trying to reach the United States. The dismissals early this week will include several top directors […]
A Cobourg, Ont., woman has been arrested in Peru because authorities there believe she was part of a group that allegedly tried to smuggle 52 kg of cocaine out of the country on Dec. 26. Read Article
Ecstasy is a common drug among young people in large cities in Peru. However, there is information that the drug is gaining use among smaller cities in bars and nightclubs. In Aguaytía. Peru, there has been a noted increase in the us according to infoperu.pe. Read Article
Members of the Deomcratic Front and Barrios de Mazatlán are calling for the investigtion of 36 municipal employees. They are threatening a march of 2000 people in the coming days from Barrios de Mazatlán to Oaxaca. The current situation is tense and violence could be present. Read Article
The complex and highly touted March 2010 immigration laws that were to go into effect December 2010, as of today, have not been implemented. And, it appears they will not be implemented for a few more months or even on their first anniversary date. Read Article
A recent outbreak of ATM scams in Puerto Vallarta involving cloned cash machines designed to steal confidential banking information has been the latest method to fraud visitors to the popular resort town. Many times a day tourists use one of the ATMs installed into the street-side of locaRead Article
Welcome to chaos. The tourists began their holiday, thousands of them just arrived from the city of Buenos Aires, they met an old acquaintance here all year, the picket line. This time in the hands of lifesavers who, in the wage claim, cut access to the beaches of Punta Mogotes amid a major scandal. Read […]
With a document in hand, the director of la Oficina Office Nacional National de Emergencia (Onemi), Vicente Núñez. Vicente Núñez, said his agency ruled out the occurrence of a tsunami on the coast. national. Read Article
There have been a number of small earthquakes today in Chile as reported by the University of Chile. The USGS has just reported two larger earthquakes in the last hour. Map below refers to 7.1 earthquake. Magnitude 5.0 Date-Time Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 21:10:19 UTC Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 06:10:19 PM at epicenter […]
A diplomatic officer from Hong Kong is being charged for possession and transporting endangered species from the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. The police report indicated that the diplomat’s luggage was checked at the airport on Baltra Island after being alerted by a search dog. His luggage contained 20 dried seahorses, 37 unknown marine species, and […]
Following: Magnitude 6.9 Date-Time Saturday, January 01, 2011 at 09:56:57 UTC Saturday, January 01, 2011 at 06:56:57 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 26.843°S, 63.151°W Depth 562.6 km (349.6 miles) Region SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA Distances 150 km (95 miles) NE of Santiago del Estero, Argentina 185 km (115 miles) […]
The Caribbean region should expect an earthquake of at least 8.0 magnitude on the Richter scale sometime soon, says Dr. Joan Latchman, Acting Director of the Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies. Latchman says the region experiences a massive quake about every 100 years, in clockwork-like fashion, and has long since […]
Greece’s foreign ministry says a small bomb exploded outside the Greek embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing minimal damage and no injuries. Foreign Ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras told the AP said the device was very small and that there was no one at the embassy when it went off Thursday. Read Article
The annual ranking by the British consultants Sky Research puts Lima’s Jorge Chávez Airport in front of all South America’s airports, with Pudahuel Airport in Chile coming in just behind. Read Article
The Sian Ka’an nature reserve, which boasts some of the most beautiful scenery on the Mexican Caribbean, received Monday another 319,000 hectares (787,654 acres) of protected land, officials said. Sian Ka’an, which means “gateway to the heavens” in Mayan, has been under pressure for years from the hotel business, the chief driving force of the […]
With the rise of gruesome massacres and public shootouts that have put civilians in the line of fire, Mexico City has become an unlikely oasis for some hoping to escape the drug war. Read Article
Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life. The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. […]
While the beaches of Costa Rica were sizzling over the Christmas period, the Central Valley is gripped by a cold spell that is expected to continue for a couple of more days. The strong, cold winds have been bone chilling. Coats, scarves and gloves were the norm for going outside. Evelyn Quirós, of the Instituto […]
It is a tradition for thousands of Costa Ricans and foreigners living in Costa Rica to head for the beaches and resorts, leaving their homes unprotected. A big mistake as crime does not take a holiday. If you are going to leave your neighborhood, if you cannot obtain a live-in-guard and you intend to go […]
Much of Argentina is now under red alert regarding a heat wave. The red alert indicates that even healthy individuals can be impacted by the heat. The alert is regarding the central part of the country.Read Article
A luxury resort hotel on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast has been closed after more than 200 tourists were sickened in repeated outbreaks of stomach flu, authorities said. The closure of the Bracelo Playa Tambor, owned by a Spanish hotel chain, came at the peak of a Christmas season that draws flocks of well-heeled US and […]
On Saturday evening, Dutch tourist Hans Janssen (54) was murdered by robbers while he and his wife Rianne were walking back from Henck Arronstraat to their guest house on Jesserunstraat. At the beginning of the street where it is pitch dark, a car was parked alongside the road. Read Article
Due to the high temperatures recorded in the City of Buenos Aires, the National Weather Service (NWS) maintains the “orange alert” in the territory of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires. Read Article
At least 35 travellers have been killed in Ecuador when their bus tumbled off the road and fell down a 150m (500ft) ravine, officials say. Some 25 more people were injured in the crash, and at least eight of the dead were reported to be children. Read Article
Mexico is experiencing its bloodiest year of drug violence yet, but that’s not stopping domestic and international vacationers alike from flocking to Cancun. Read Article
On December 22, 2010, an interprovincial bus crashed into the Limonchayoc River, after falling 150 meters. The accident happened at 2:00 am at km 60 on the road between Quillabamba-Kitemi in Cusco Department. There were reported three dead, three missing, and thirty injuries. Read Article
A Brazilian labour court judge late Wednesday ordered aviation unions preparing a crippling pre-Christmas airport strike Thursday to abort their action under threat of big fines. Milton de Moura Franca, president of the High Labour Tribunal in Brasilia, issued the order just hours before the stoppage was to take hold across all of Brazil’s 65 […]
Chile’s LAN airline has placed a record purchase order with Airbus for 50 medium-range passenger jets in an acquisitions program aimed at giving passengers confidence Latin American air transportation is safe and secure. Read Article
Brazil could be set for airport chaos this week after unions dug in their heels and kept plans for a strike Thursday that would affect hundreds of thousands of passengers heading off on Christmas vacation. Read Article
Heavy fog is causing chaos at Colombia’s international El Dorado airport in Bogota Wednesday. According to the Colombia’s aerial authority Aerocivil, the fog caused the delay of 351 flights which is expected to cause chaos throughout the day. Read Article
On December 7, 2010, the cruise ship Clelia II had begun the final crossing of its weeklong Antarctic cruise. What remained of the journey was the notoriously dangerous Drake Passage between Antarctica and South America. And that day the ship was hit by a massive wave that shattered one of its bridge windows and damaged […]
More than 18 months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors were supposed to start enforcing stringent ID requirements at the nation’s land borders, millions of travelers are still being admitted without passports or other secure IDs, a new government audit shows. An Office of Inspector General report released Monday found that CBP remains unprepared […]
Flight attendants are on strike at LAN Argentina, causing delays and cancellations of about 30 flights a day. The strike affects all LAN Argentina flights out of the domestic and international airports in Buenos Aires. Read Article
Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) said on Tuesday that it will reinstate the code-share arrangement under which it sells seats on Aeromexico planes on Dec. 29. Read Article
InterContinental Hotels Group Plc (IHG – Snapshot Report), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, continues to expand its footprint in Latin America with its recent opening at Maracaibo in Venezuela. The hotel features 14,500 square feet of meeting space including 252 rooms, 300 self-contained parking spaces, and ball-room as well as guest […]
There is a current invesitgation in process as to why so few are being treated at the Sant Rosa hospital in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. The director has told investigators they have hired additional staff to treat the high number of people infected with dengue. Read Story
The number of dead after falling into an abyss of an interprovincial bus in Huanuco , rose to 18 with the recovery of the body of a woman about 25 who was among the twisted iron bars of Sonia company car. The bus company did not have a permit to operate in the area of […]
Peruvian families spend over US$200 in domestic tourism during the year-end holidays, President of the National Chamber of Tourism (Canatur) Carlos Canales reported today. “Most of the families who travel to provinces for the year-end holidays consist of five people or couples of friends who receive the New Year away from home,” he told Andina […]
This morning there was a fire in two hotels in downtown Quito. The flames destroyed the second and third floors of the Hotel Reina del Cisne. The Hotel Santo Domingo also caught on fire. The fire reported at 5:30 am was reportedly under control at 8:30 am. There were no reports of injuries. Tourists were […]
Story submitted by Reader of Latinamericacurrentevents.com based in Ecuador: Last evening Beba Chattin, age 36, was walking on her way to pick up her daughter in the lower income neighborhood of La Chala in Guayaquil, Ecuador. A large black male approached her from behind and told her to stop. He wanted to know what she […]
Peru is experiencing a growth in luxury tourism with new hotels, ecological resorts and gourmet restaurants opening in 2011 in key tourist locations. These investments are being driven by an increase in demand for luxury travel in the country, and new airline routes opening. 2011 will also be a bumper year for the country, which […]
The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) has informed that Peru receives over 20,000 tourists each yearr who arrive in the country exclusively to surf at beaches like Punta Rocas, Chicama and Cabo Blanco. Eduardo Ferreyros, Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, explained that these tourists are mainly from Australia, USA and Brazil. […]