Stories for January 20th 2020

Monday, January 20th 2020 - 15:59 UTC
Interview: “Pepe” Gómez, the Uruguayan big wave surfer who rubs shoulders with surfing legends

The surfer “Pepe” Gomez slid this week what may be the biggest wave ever surfed by an Uruguayan. He did it in Nazaré, Portugal, where a submarine valley creates the necessary conditions to break a worldwide known wave that reach up to 35 meters high.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina pledges bill to attract investment for production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will send a bill to Congress to attract investment for the production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, a spokesman for the Production Development ministry said.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:38 UTC
OAS Electoral Observation mission making preliminary visit to the Dominican Republic

A technical team of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the municipal elections in the Dominican Republic will make a preliminary visit to the country between January 21 and 25.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Justice demanded for Argentina's slain terrorism prosecutor

By Toby Dershowitz - Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost Nisman his life five years ago this week. (January 18)
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:29 UTC
Guatemala cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela; orders the closure of the embassy in Caracas

Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei cut diplomatic ties with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and ordered the closure of its embassy in Caracas.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Falkland Islands Special for the popular “Walks around Britain series”

Adventurer and mountaineer Alan Hinkes is tackling one of his most tricky challenges to date: persuading people that the South Atlantic Falkland Islands are a must-see holiday destination.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:11 UTC
Fernandez off to Israel for a Holocaust Remembrance summit ceremony; Macron, Putin, Pence among attendants

Argentine president Alberto Fernández will visit Jerusalem this week to participate in the International Leaders Forum in Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, which will constitute his first official trip overseas after taking office on December 10.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:37 UTC
Massive escape from notorious Brazilian gang members from Paraguayan jail

At least 75 inmates, many of them members of a notorious Brazilian gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a border town on Sunday, according to authorities who said they immediately fired the prison’s director. Officials said they discovered a tunnel and found cells filled with as many as 200 bags of earth.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:14 UTC
World billionaires are richer than 60% of the global population, Oxfam charity

The world's richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, the charity Oxfam said on Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in “12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day”, estimated to be worth at least US$10.8 trillion a year.