MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 2019
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Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:40 UTC
EU money laundering black list blocked following US and Saudi complaints
The United States on Friday welcomed the blocking of a proposal to add a group of countries, including four American territories, to the EU money-laundering blacklist after almost all member states opposed it. The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, hit out at the “dogmatic posturing” of the European Commission, the bloc's executive arm.
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Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:24 UTC
US and Russia clash over Venezuela; Moscow pledges wheat and medicines
The United States and Russia clashed on Friday over how to assist ailing Venezuela, with Moscow pledging new relief channelled through President Nicolas Maduro and Washington slapping sanctions over the blocking of US aid it tried to force through the border.
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Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 01:14 UTC
Uruguay’s Chancellor on Venezuela: “We have a problem and it is the attitude of Luis Almagro”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, ratified his position on Friday on a peaceful solution to the political and institutional crisis suffered by Venezuela along with his Italian counterpart, Enzo Moavero Milanesi in Montevideo. The Uruguayan chancellor questioned the attitude of the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, considering that he took sides on the Venezuelan conflict.
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Friday, March 1st 2019 - 23:33 UTC
Guaido stops in Asunción from Brasilia and enroute to Argentina
Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benitez Friday welcomed Venezuelan dissident acting President Juan Guaidó, saying the latter represented hope for his people. Abdo added Nicolás Maduro's tyranny must end.
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Friday, March 1st 2019 - 20:05 UTC
Peru hit by earthquake also felt in Bolivia, Brazil and Chile
An earthquake measuring 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale Friday rattled southern Peru, 67 km (41 miles) north-northwest of Juliaca, near the Bolivian border, it was reported.
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Friday, March 1st 2019 - 13:27 UTC
Buenos Aires federal court finds no evidence to convict Menem of AMIA bombing cover-up
Former Argentine president and current senator Carlos Menem was acquitted Thursday in the trial for the cover-up of the 1994 attack on the headquarters of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA).
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Friday, March 1st 2019 - 13:05 UTC
Maduro moves PDVSA office to Moscow to avoid sanctions
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced at a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the central office of state oil company PDVSA in Europe, located in Lisbon, will move to Moscow to guarantee the security of the country's assets abroad, which were delivered to the Venezuelan Parliament in other countries.
