Stories for December 2021

Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
OPEC+ Expects Large Oil Glut In Early 2022

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com – OPEC+ anticipates the global oil market to show a worse-than-previously expected surplus in the first quarter of 2022, according to an internal report seen by Reuters, which could give the group another reason to pause monthly supply additions.
Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Unexpected call of Viking Jupiter to Uruguay; she's scheduled to visit the Falkland Islands

The Atlantic coast resort Punta del Este received on Saturday the first cruise vessel since the start of the pandemic. The expedition cruise Viking Jupiter was scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, but since it had stopped at Cape Verde islands in Africa, Argentina is demanding a fourteen day quarantine before letting anybody in the country.
Monday, December 6th 2021 - 08:54 UTC
Argentine Federal Court upholds Stanley landing ship must not be scrapped

A Bahía Blanca Federal Court of Appeals has upheld a judicial ruling whereby the decommissioned destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad which took part in the Apr. 2, 1982 landing at Port Stanley, can not be sold as scrap metal, despite its current state of deterioration.
Monday, December 6th 2021 - 08:49 UTC
Argentine automotive industry shows signs of recovery

The Argentine Association of Automotive Factories (ADEFA) has reported that November 2021 had shown a 70% increase in exports and a growth of around 43% in the total number of units delivered.
Monday, December 6th 2021 - 08:14 UTC
Norwegian cruise arrives at New Orleans with ten Covid-19 confirmed cases after a tour of Belize, Honduras and Mexico

The Norwegian Breakaway, belonging to the Norwegian Cruise Line, docked in New Orleans, on Saturday with at least ten positive cases of Covid-19, according to the Louisiana Health Department.
Monday, December 6th 2021 - 07:06 UTC
Mapuches strike again in southern Chile

With just about two weeks to go before the highly-polarized presidential elections between radical candidates from the left and the right, a group claiming to be fighting for the rights of the Mapuche indigenous peoples Friday committed yet another arson attack in the Biobio region in southern Chile. The fire affected a house and two sheds, it was reported.
Monday, December 6th 2021 - 06:48 UTC
Argentine Defense Minister welcomes new French-built OPV

Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Friday took delivery of the new OPV ARA Storni (P-53) from France.
Saturday, December 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Labour strife in port of Montevideo; increasing export volumes shipped from Rio Grande in Brazil

Recurrent labour strife in the port of Montevideo is not only frustrating but is also seriously limiting activities, and only this week did the Union of Uruguayan exporters make public a release regretting the fact that several vessels abandoned the port given what is known as pearled stoppages.
Saturday, December 4th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
UN Comittee lashes out at Bolivia's judiciary for lack of independence

The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) Friday published a series of findings which hit authorities from the Plurinational State of Bolivia as well as from countries in other continents (including Sweden).
Saturday, December 4th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Chavez's brother to be replaced in encore of Venezuelan local elections

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Friday announced a new candidate would seek to become governor of the state of Barinas which are to be held again on January 9 after the November 21 polls were annulled by electoral authorities in a much controversial decision.