Stories for 2021

Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Most of Argentina under strict confinement as of Saturday

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday decreed nine days of strict confinement starting Saturday in what he claimed was a measure to lower the increasing number of coronavirus cases.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:23 UTC
Truce between Israel and Hamas starts Friday at dawn

After 11 days of fighting, Israel and the terrorist group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire starting at dawn on Friday, May 21, it was announced.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:08 UTC
Last LATAM Argentina Airbus flies back home from Aeroparque which halts regional flights

Operation of regional flights at the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA)'s only airfield commonly known as Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport (AEP/SABE), which reopened recently following renovations, have been shifted to the Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini international airport (technically in the Province of Buenos Aires) due to lack of proper coronavirus detecting facilities.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:00 UTC
No Copa America for Colombia – where then?

The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) Thursday decided to reschedule the Copa America matches which were going to be played in Colombia starting next month but has yet to confirm the new venues.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:58 UTC
EU finalizes vaccine passport details as Summer season looms over

The European Commission has reached a decision whereby all member states are to accept the digital covid-19 certificate also known as “vaccine passport,” a document which will show whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, and refrain from imposing additional travel measures such as quarantines to its citizens,
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:51 UTC
Biden picks for Western Hemisphere career diplomat who favors sanctions against Venezuela

US President Joseph Biden's candidate for the office of Undersecretary of the State Department for the Western Hemisphere, Brian A. Nichols, has said sanctions against the Nicolás Maduro regime must continue.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:43 UTC
Former Uruguayan VP gets suspended jail sentence

Former Uruguayan Vicepresident Raúl Sendic Rodríguez was handed down an 18-month suspended jail sentence Thursday for abuse of office and embezzlement.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:24 UTC
Paraguay to import large amounts of medical oxygen from Brazil

Paraguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday announced 784 tons of oxygen for medical use had been cleared for import from Brazil as part of the anticoronavirus efforts.
Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 09:32 UTC
Brazil wants Mercosur to agree on a 20% reduction of the Common External Tariff

Brazil is determined that Mercosur's Common External Tariff, TEC, be reduced by 20% in two rounds of unilateral cuts, 10% immediately, and the other 10% in December. This is the official strategy and position of Brazil for the extraordinary meeting in June of the four founding members of the group, in Buenos Aires, underlined Lucas Ferraz, foreign trade secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of the economy.
Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 09:08 UTC
Duque picks Colombia's Vice President Ramírez for the Foreign Ministry

After Foreign Minister Claudia Blum handed in her resignation last week due to the social and political unrest Colombia is going through, President Iván Duque chose to appoint Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez as her successor.