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Montevideo, May 19th 2024 - 20:21 UTC

Stories for February 2024

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina: Libertarians not to insist on so-called Omnibus Law bill

    The bill served its purpose of exposing “the caste,” Milei argued from Israel

    After Tuesday's failure at the Lower House to move forward with the so-called Omnibus Law bill targetting government spending, Argentine President Javier Milei said Wednesday from Israel that La Libertad Avanza (LLA) would not insist on that initiative which has achieved its goal of exposing “the caste.”

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Montevideo Mayor Cosse holds talks with General Richardson

    Cosse held with Richardson a meeting of “an official nature”

    Montevideo Mayor Carolina Cosse met Wednesday with US Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson. Cosse, who is running in the opposition Frente Amplio (Broad Front - FA) primaries for the upcoming presidential elections, said her encounter with the visiting military officer was “of an official nature.”

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Brazil's STF launches corruption probe against Transparency International

    Dias Toffoli questioned the NGO's ties with former Lava Jato Prosecutor Dallagnol, who jailed Lula da Silva in 2018

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice António Dias Toffoli has launched a corruption probe against the Non-Government Organization (NGO) Transparency International after it sided with Deltan Dallagnol to create a foundation with the money from fines paid by companies that admitted to bribes to win contracts with the state-run oil company Petrobras.

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    Chile: The cause of Piñera's death disclosed

    Piñera, who ruled Chile between 2010 and 2014 and again between 2018 and 2022 was 74

    Chilean Prosecutor Tatiana Esquivel said Wednesday that former two-time President Sebastián Piñera died of asphyxia by submersion, according to the post-mortem performed by Valdivia's Legal Medical team.

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Milei: “Nazism today is disguised as Hamas”

    Milei held a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu among other engagements

    On the second day of his visit to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei said Wednesday that “Nazism today is disguised as Hamas.” On making these remarks from the local Holocaust Museum, the South American leader insisted that the terrorist group needed to free the hostages taken during the Oct. 7 raids.

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    Bolivian economy minister says Fitch's downgrading was biased

    It is clear that it is bad accounting on Fitch's part, Montenegro argued

    Economy Minister Marcelo Montenegro said the latest grading given to Bolivia by Fitch Ratings entailed a “biased vision” according to which the country's total public debt, internal and external, represented 71.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) when it actually amounted to 46%.

  • Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 05:17 UTC

    HMS Protector removes waste from Brabant Island next to Antarctica Peninsula

    HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s. Photo: Royal Navy

    Royal Navy sailors have helped preserve the natural beauty of Antarctica by removing three tons of waste from an island. Ice patrol HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island – on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula – for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s.

  • Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Chile: Boric delivers heartfelt message after Piñera's passing

    The former president will be given a state funeral with full honors, Boric announced

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Tuesday decreed three days of mourning for the death of his predecessor Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014 and 2018-2022) in a helicopter crash. He also praised the Conservative leader for his crisis management skills after the 2010 earthquake and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Boric also announced that the two-time President Piñera would receive full honors and “a state funeral.”

  • Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Parliamentarian setback for Milei's Omnibus Law bill

    “The governors did not keep their word,” Zago said.

    Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Tuesday suffered a major blow in Congress when its workhorse Omnibus Law bill was sent back to further treatment by the various Lower House committees, thus annulling last Friday's broad approval.

  • Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

    Milei cries at Wailing Wall in Israel

    Milei arrived in Israel to fulfill a campaign promise

    Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday landed in Tel Aviv on an ElAl flight and cried at the Wailing Wall together with his rabbi friend Axel Wahnish, who will be the South American country's next ambassador. During his first day in Israel, Milei met with President Isaac Herzog and insisted on his promise to move the embassy to Jerusalem.