Latin America

The Uruguayan city of Punta del Este has been added to Formula E’s 2017-18 calendar, replacing a postponed event in São Paulo, Brazil.

Mexico’s anti-doping facility has today (Tuesday) had its World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) accreditation reinstated after being suspended for more than a year.

The inaugural Brazil ePrix has been postponed for a year by the Formula E electric car-racing series due to issues surrounding the ownership of the planned race venue.

Eladio Rodriguez, an accountant who worked for Argentinian agency Torneos, has detailed how he handled the assignment of millions of dollars in bribes to South America football officials.

Former Colombian Football Federation (FCF) president Luis Bedoya has testified that a sports marketing executive told him up to $15m (€12.9m) in bribe payments was available to South American officials from Qatari sources ahead of the vote to decide the destination of the 2022 Fifa World Cup.

Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay have formalised a pact to launch a joint bid for the 2030 Fifa World Cup, saying they are confident that the ongoing fallout from the corruption scandal within football in the Americas will not impact the effort.

A former executive for the Full Play agency has detailed the secret means by which illicit payments were made to senior officials as the ongoing US trial into corruption in world football recommenced yesterday (Monday).

The NFL American football league has reached an outline deal to extend an arrangement to play one regular-season game per campaign in Mexico through to 2021.

Alejandro Burzaco, former chief executive of Argentinian media group and sports-rights agency Torneos, has said that he and his company agreed to pay 30 football officials around $160m (€138.1m) in bribes as it was announced that Paraguay has agreed to extradite former South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) president Nicolas Leoz to the US.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced that the inaugural edition of its Baseball 5 Championships will take place later this month in Havana, Cuba.

Lawyers representing the first men to stand trial as part of the long-running US investigation into allegations of football corruption worldwide have delivered their opening statements.

Major League Baseball (MLB) has revealed plans to return regular season action to Mexico for the first time since 1999, with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres set to face off in a three-game series in Monterrey next year.

World football’s governing body Fifa has issued a guide to the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, stating the revamped procedure is designed to ensure the process cannot be open to “even one iota of doubt”.

Santiago has been confirmed as host of the 2023 Pan American Games after its bid received unanimous backing from PanAmSports, the body formerly known as the Pan American Sports Organisation (Paso).

The Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) has released its provisional calendar for the 2018 season, with events in the Czech Republic and Argentina having been added to the schedule.

The German Football League (DFL) has signed a strategic partnership with the Colombian División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano (Dimayor), the organising body of club football in Colombia.