Stories for May 15th 2021

Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 18:52 UTC
Argentine scientist Kini Roesler wins Whitley Award for nature conservation in Patagonia

In 2009, he had a plane ticket to the United States and everything set as a young biologist to start a PhD on tropical Andean birds. However, Argentine biologist Ignacio “Kini” Roesler, decided to stay at home to investigate the dire situation of the Hooded Grebe and help it from extinction. Twelve years later, Kini won a Whitley Award for its work with the Patagonia Programme for the conservation of the vulnerable Patagonian bird.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:39 UTC
Argentine President tells IMF head no more efforts from Argentine people acceptable

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday rounded up his one-week European tour with meetings in Rome with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva and former US Secretary of State John Kerry before flying back to Buenos Aires.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:12 UTC
Chile going to polls this weekend to elect Constitutional Convention to replace Pinochet-era text

Chile is about to write another chapter in its history this coming weekend when members of an Assembly to write up a new constitution to replace the one left by the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet are elected.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:04 UTC
Google buys 30-hectare property in Uruguay's Science Park

Google's subsidiary in Uruguay, Eleanor Applications SRL, Friday purchased 30 hectares in the duty-free Science Park in Canelones, where it will install a data centre, it was announced.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Diplomatic rift with China results in shortage of active ingredient to produce vaccines in Brazil

São Paulo Governor Joao Doria Friday blamed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for a diplomatic crisis with China, which led to the suspension of supplies to manufacturing vaccines against the coronavirus.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 08:55 UTC
Lula, CFK seal alliance regarding education of future political leaders

Former Argentine President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva Friday agreed to join forces for the future of the region.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 08:49 UTC
Brazil bans entry of foreign travellers from India due to rising number of covid-19 cases

The Brazilian government has banned the entry of travellers from India as a result of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the Asian country, an extra edition of the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette) published on Friday.
Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 04:29 UTC
Paraguay-Mexico Chamber of Commerce in process of creation

Paraguayan exports to Mexico in the context of the coronavirus pandemic have grown to such an extent that the Paraguay-Mexico Chamber of Commerce is in the process of being created, it was announced on Friday.