Stories for August 2022

Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 10:39 UTC
Brazil's inflation for July 2022 best in 42 years

Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics Tuesday released its monthly price index report for the month of July, which returned negative figures, in line with Central Bank projections that inflation was slowing down.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:58 UTC
Mexico: AMLO announcement dubbed “a soft coup”

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday came under heavy criticism when he announced that he would transfer the National Guard to the scope of the Armed Forces, which was regarded as a “soft” coup d'état.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
Mercosur consolidates as the leading global exporter of beef

Mercosur is again consolidating as the leading global exporter of beef with shipments of almost 1,8 million tons during the first half of the year, according to primary information from different sources. Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay in that order were the main suppliers.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:42 UTC
Salmon farming industry fights back in Magallanes despite president Boric's intended policy

“Salmon farming industries must move out of protected areas” was the controversial phrase from Chilean president Gabriel Boric during his latest visit to Magallanes region, the extreme south of the country.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC
Uruguay's Parliament passes defense agreement with China

Uruguay's Congress Tuesday approved the implementation of joint defense efforts with China agreed upon in 2019, when the two countries pledged to increase cooperation between their respective Ministries of Defense, “within the limits of their competencies.”
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
Mapuche groups claim responsibility for yet another attack in Chile

Mapuche violence is reaching unprecedented levels after the Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an arson attack against a forestry site in the commune of Lumaco, in the Araucanía region, 700 kilometers south of Santiago.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:23 UTC
Venezuelans demand release of Emtrasur's 747

Scores of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Tuesday staged a rally across the streets of Caracas to demand that Argentina's judiciary releases Emtrasur's Boeing 747-300 cargo aircraft seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport.
Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:38 UTC
Uruguayan judge who halted vaccination under scrutiny

Uruguay's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) has launched an inquiry against Judge Alejandro Recarey for his July 7 decision to halt vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged 5 to 13 to determine which course of action to take regarding the magistrate's future.
Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:32 UTC
Bolsonaro says voting for Lula is like hiring traffickers to fight drug dealing

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro likened his predecessor and electoral rival Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the latter's running mate to notorious local drug traffickers.
Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:22 UTC
Nagasaki Mayor launches “Never Again!” cry

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and other speakers during Tuesday's ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the second atom bomb dropped on Japanese soil by the United States at the end of World War II insisted that theirs should be the last tragedy ever of that nature.