Stories for December 2017

Monday, December 18th 2017 - 11:39 UTC
Morales insists in involving the Pope in the ongoing sea outlet dispute between Bolivia and Chile

Bolivian President Evo Morales implied in a Tweet that he and Pope Francis had discussed Bolivia’s territorial dispute with Chile during a meeting at the Vatican on December 15. According to the Vatican, the 30-minute private meeting “took place in a cordial atmosphere.”
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 10:33 UTC
Vigo launches “Fresco y Salvaje”, a registered brand to promote fresh and wild fish consumption

The Organization of Products of Fresh Fishing of the Port of Vigo (OPPF-4), in collaboration with the Galician company specialized in fishing issues Sinerxia Plus, has begun to present the new fish brand ”Fresco y Salvaje” (Fresh and Wild), which it intends to start up among the ship owners forming part of the organization.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 09:22 UTC
Mexican presidential candidate Lopez Obrador presents a moderate pragmatic cabinet

The left leaning front-runner for Mexico’s 2018 presidential election proposed a moderate U.S.-trained economist for finance minister, unveiling a planned cabinet made up of men and women in equal measure.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 07:23 UTC
Norovirus strikes again: Royal Caribbean's “Independence of the Seas” en route to Jamaica

Passengers of Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas expressed relief early Saturday as they returned to Florida after more than 200 people fell ill aboard the five-night cruise. Royal Caribbean said 220 passengers came down with a gastrointestinal illness during the cruise, which left Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades last Monday for Labadee and Jamaica.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 07:16 UTC
Argentina ready for another attempt to approve the pension reform bill on Monday

The government of Argentina has decided to vote on the pension reform bill on Monday amid speculation that President Mauricio Macri's administration could use a decree to fast-track the legislation.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 07:09 UTC
Mudslide buries village in Patagonian Chile: at least 8 dead and 15 missing

At least eight people are dead and 15 are still missing after a landslide swept through a remote village in Patagonian Chile on Saturday, the country's president said. The deadly catastrophe devastated the town of Villa Santa Lucia, near a popular national park in the Chaitén region following a deluge of rain on Friday.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:56 UTC
Theresa May and cabinet to discuss UK's future relationship with the EU

Theresa May is due to meet her “Brexit cabinet” - about a dozen of her most senior ministers - to discuss for the first time what the UK's future relationship with the EU should be. The PM will later tell MPs the UK wants to sign trade deals during what she calls an implementation period.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:41 UTC
Kuczynski appeals to an Odebrecht letter which says he was not in the “pay list”

Brazilian builder Odebrecht said on Saturday that its recently-disclosed business ties to embattled Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski were not part of the corrupt deals it struck with politicians that it has acknowledged to prosecutors.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:55 UTC
Piñera is Chile's next president: he beat the center left candidate by ten points

Billionaire former President Sebastian Piñera easily won Chile's presidential runoff election on Sunday, moving the world's top-copper producing country back to the right. Piñera got 54.6% of the votes to 45.4% for center-left Senator Alejandro Guillier, with nearly all the ballots counted.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:27 UTC
Hernandez declared Honduras president; opposition leader off to Washington to denounce “fraud”

Honduras’ electoral tribunal on Sunday declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the Nov. 26 presidential election, sparking fraud accusations and calls for renewed street protests after a bitterly disputed contest. Hernandez beat center-left challenger and TV star Salvador Nasralla by 1.53 percentage points, according to the official count.