Stories for 2021

Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 09:19 UTC
Argentine plans opening of land borders as Uruguay gets ready to allow tourists in, among many improvements

Uruguay will start allowing foreigners in as of September 1 while Argentina announced the reopening of its common land borders is being eyed for September 6, as tourism seems headed for a gradual return to pre-pandemic levels.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:48 UTC
Replacements picked for Argentina's cabinet

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday picked new replacements, so that cabinet ministers who will seek a seat in Congress later this year may focus on their campaigns.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:30 UTC
UN climate change report heralds “unprecedented” disasters

A new study released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) foresee the planet's temperature would reach +1.5 ºC compàred to pre-industrial levels by the year 2030, which is ten years earlier than forecast in 2018.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:25 UTC
UK universities, a service industry funded by foreign students

UK universities have received a record number of applications from China, which is helping to compensate financially for the drop in EU students, because of Brexit. EU applications fell 43% to 28,400 while from China the number is 28,490, more than double in four years, according to UK universities admission service, UCAS.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:06 UTC
Toyota Argentina can't find 200 new workers who have finished secondary education

Despite the pandemic, Toyota Argentina has become a success story. During 2020 it managed to keep production and this year it will have manufactured 140,000 Hilux and SW4 models, with a six months waiting list of customers, and negotiations with main offices in Japan for an investment to expand the plant in Zaraté, Buenos Aires province.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:59 UTC
“Malvinas are Argentine”, but thinking differently is not a crime in Argentina, Patirica Bullrich

Recent statements by representatives from Argentina's intellectual elite referred to the Falklands being a British territory and belonging to the Kelpers, and that Argentina did not exist as such at the time, are still reverberating, but the country is holding primaries and elections next month and in November so some political amendments seem necessary.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:49 UTC
Brazilian indigenous group APIB files criminal charges against President Bolsonaro before ICC

Indigenous lawyers have filed genocide charges against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague, it was announced Monday.
Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:27 UTC
Argentine President wants to make internet “a public utility”

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday vowed to make internet “a public utility and make those who have to get angry get angry.” Fernández made those remarks during the launching ceremony of the Argentina Program, a government initiative regarding public access to technology.
Monday, August 9th 2021 - 15:18 UTC
Latest “massive melting” of Greenland ice sheet could cover Florida with five centimeters of water

The Polar Portal website has reported that the Greenland ice sheet recent “massive melting event” released enough mass to cover the state of Florida with 5 centimeters of water.
Monday, August 9th 2021 - 10:13 UTC
Chile in mourning for two days over those who died from COVID-19

Chile's President Sebastián Piñera decreed two days of national mourning Monday and Tuesday (August 9 and 10) in memory of all those who passed away due to the COVID-19 pandemic.