Stories for July 2022

Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:31 UTC
Uruguayan Higher Court upholds rejecting Pepín's asylum request

A Montevideo Court of Appeals has denied Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón's asylum request, it was announced Monday.
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Uruguay records coldest, driest June in decades

Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) reported Monday that this year's was the coldest June in the last 41 years “with a countrywide anomaly of -2.3°C.”
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:38 UTC
PAHO supports Uruguayan Health Ministry in vax judicial ruling

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sent a letter of support to Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas after a judge ordered all vaccination of children under 13 years of age against COVID-19 be halted in the country.
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:12 UTC
Number of monkeypox cases in Brazil crosses 200 threshold

Brazilian health authorities Monday confirmed there were 219 confirmed cases of monkeypox nationwide, with the bulk of them in São Paulo (158) and Rio de Janeiro (34), according to an Agência Brasil report.
Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 07:54 UTC
US dollar soars in Colombia as Petro's inauguration looms over

The Colombian peso Monday suffered a historic devaluation amid uncertainty less than a month ahead of President-elect Gustavo Petro's inauguration.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 22:25 UTC
Bolsonarist murderer of PT treasurer remanded

A Brazilian court has ordered Jorge José da Rocha Guaranho to be remanded after charging him with murdering Workers' Party (PT) Treasurer Marcelo Arruda in Foz do Iguaçu, a city on the Brazilian sector of the three-way border with Argentina and Paraguay.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 22:22 UTC
Batakis announces spending cuts for Argentine gov't

Argentina's Economy Minister Silvina Batakis Monday warned that the government of President Alberto Fernández “will not spend more than we have,” while launching a series of measures aimed at curbing inflation and restoring federal reserves.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 20:55 UTC
Abuse within Paraguayan Military Academy reported

Just weeks after two cases of abuses within Argentina's Army surfaced, Paraguay's National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (MNPT) Monday confirmed the cruel treatment of cadets at the Francisco Solano López Military Academy (Academil) was common practice.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 20:52 UTC
Life expectancy drops from 2019 figures, UN says

The United Nations' World Population Prospects (WPP) report released Monday foresees the world's population will reach 8 billion people by November of 2022 and that India will surpass China as the country with the largest number of inhabitants.
Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:45 UTC
US Ambassador insists on no special IMF treatment for Argentina

The United States Ambassador to Buenos Aires Marc Stanley insisted there would be no special treatment for Argentina following President Alberto Fernández Government's request to cut down the International Monetary Fund (IMF) surcharge.