Bolivia’s interim government has announced the presidential elections scheduled for May 3 will be postponed for 14 days, but without setting a new date for the vote.

Chile’s Congress has voted to postpone the planned constitutional referendum until October 25 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will provide an $80 million loan to Barbados to modernise the Caribbean island nation’s regulatory framework and strengthen its public policies oriented towards sustainable development and climate resilience.

Demarest has advised MEI Fácil, a Brazilian start-up that helps small business owners with their legal obligations and financial transactions, on its buyout by Neon Pagamentos.

Brazil’s Lefosse Advogados has acted as legal counsel to Banco Bradesco BBI, which acted as lead manager, on the offering of $95.7 million in notes due 2027 by Sociedade Educacional Cidade de São Paulo,

The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) and the S&P Dow Jones Index will launch a new index in April, called the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) index.

Brazilian law firm Veirano Advogados has advised Gran Coffee Comércio, Locação E Serviços on its acquisition of a 100-per cent stake in It Coffee Italian Coffee Comércio e Serviços for

Panama has enacted the so-called remote-working law, Law No. 126, and which makes provisions for people working off-site, granting them equal rights as on-site employees, such as the right to claim overtime if ‘on call’, and

The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned TNK Trading International, a subsidiary of the Russian energy company Rosneft, based on Executive Order 13850, authorising sanctions on persons operating in certain

Lexincorp has announced the incorporation of José Miguel Valladares to the corporate department as partner, and who joins the firm after several years running his own private practice, V&P Legal.