Stories for March 2022

Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:39 UTC
The IMF understanding does not solve Argentina's problems, “it's only a breathing space”

Gustavo Grobocopatel, one of Argentina's most successful farming businesspeople said that the understanding reached with the IMF does not solve the country's problems, IMF merely agreed “to kick the can down the road” and give Argentina time to change its production matrix.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:38 UTC
Ecuadorian banana producers seek declaration of emergency

Ecuadorian banana producers in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, and El Oro, have staged road blockades demanding the government to step in and purchase the surplus resulting from Russia's military operation in Ukraine.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:37 UTC
First Woman Governor of the Falkland Islands: Alison Mary Blake CMG

Ms. Alison Blake CMG has been appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands and Her Majesty’s Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in succession to Mr Nigel Phillips CBE. Ms Blake will take up her appointment during July 2022.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:37 UTC
PM Johnson hosted a roundtable of leaders in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted on Monday a roundtable of leaders in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry today to discuss domestic energy security. This is part of a series of engagements by the Government across the UK’s energy sectors, including with renewable and nuclear companies in the coming days and weeks.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
Three provinces concentrated 74% of Argentine US$ 78bn. exports in 2021

Three mainly agricultural provinces in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, and Córdoba accounted for 74% of the US$ 78 billion exported by the country in 2021, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
Peru's Parliament to debate impeaching President Castillo, yet again

Peru's Congress Monday passed by 76 voted in favor, 41 against, and one abstention a motion to debate the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo Terrones for “permanent moral unfitness” to hold office.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:31 UTC
Argentine FM lands financing deals for transition infrastructure

Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, who is on a Middle East official tour, Monday announced he had reached agreements worth over US$ 1 billion to finance infrastructure works regarding energy and climate change through 2023.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
Arrest warrant issued in Argentina against Diosdado Cabello

Argentine surrogate Judge Mariela Alejandra Giménez has issued an arrest warrant against Venezuela's Government leader Diosdado Cabello, number two of the ruling PSUV, should he try to enter the country. Authorities believe Cabello might try to travel through the northern border in the province of Jujuy.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:21 UTC
Mercociudades launches ambitious agenda in Montevideo

An international meeting in Montevideo of municipal authorities from cities all over Latin America has come up last week with a large list of conclusions and recommendations for the times to come and an agenda with more than fifty events to be held in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:15 UTC
Former Peruvian President back in jail after hospital discharge

Alberto Fujimori has been discharged Monday from the private Lima clinic where he had been taken to earlier this month due to a heart failure and was subsequently taken back to jail, his daughter and opposition leader Keiko Fujimori announced.