Stories for 2021

Friday, October 1st 2021 - 19:23 UTC
Uruguayan President's rating of approval back on its way up, poll says

Popular support to Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou, which had been declining in the past few months, has resumed its upward trend and grew 5% since July's, a study conducted by pollsters Factum has shown.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 17:50 UTC
Chile lifts curfew; quarantine only for travelers and other specific situations

Chilean authorities have lifted the curfew imposed over a year and a half ago as a part of the sanitary measures against the COVID-19 pandemic effective Oct. 1, it was announced.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:53 UTC
Irregular migration and drug trafficking alongside Bolivia-Chile border keeps drawing concern

While Chile's presidential delegate at Tarapacá, Miguel Ángel Quezada, accused Bolivia on Thursday of “not making any effort” to prevent the crossing of irregular migrants through the common border, authorities from both countries have formed four working groups to coordinate the fight against drug trafficking.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:33 UTC
Fear reigns among Venezuelans as six more zeros are to be removed from local currency

Unrest reigned Thursday among Venezuelans as Friday's monetary reconversion which will remove six zeros from “sovereign bolivars” loomed over, prompting the exchange rate with the US dollar to skyrocket.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:12 UTC
FIG and BAS work together on forthcoming Antarctic summer research season

Despite the global pandemic, the strong strategic relationship between the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has gone from strength to strength. Following the success of the previous austral summer research season, the Falkland Islands is once again positioned to be the gateway for exciting and important Antarctic science over the next six to nine months.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:02 UTC
Embarrassing private messages by Brazilian President disclosed

Brazilian news outlets Thursday revealed embarrassing private Whatsapp messages from President Jair Bolsonaro which included homophobic remarks and words of praise for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 08:44 UTC
At least 118 dead in Ecuadorian prison riot involving Mexican drug cartels

Ecuador's police was still fighting to control a jailhouse in Guayaquil after a riot by inmates led to clashes that have so far resulted in 118 deaths in what turned out to be one of Latin America's worst prison massacres.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 08:41 UTC
United States barely avert gov't shutdown, but only for a few months

US President Joseph Biden Thursday signed into law the government funding bill, hours after Congress agreed on it in a last-minute rush to avoid a shutdown.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 07:06 UTC
Barbados to quit British Commonwealth effective December 1

The Parliament of Barbados has passed by 25 votes to none a Constitutional Amendment whereby the former British colony, which remained within the Commonwealth after its declaration of independence in 1966 will become a republic and thus remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state. The decision will become effective on Dec. 1.
Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 20:57 UTC
LATAM obtains financing to reorganize the group and begin exiting bankruptcy

On Wednesday, LATAM airlines announced it had obtained committed financing of US$ 750 million as part of the Chapter 11 proceedings, allowing the company to improve its financing conditions and to start exiting the bankruptcy process