Stories for November 2022

Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:37 UTC
Uruguay: ex-presidential custody chief used to offer State spying system; opposition warned of “bribes”

Alejandro Astesiano, the former custodian of President Luis Lacalle Pou, offered the use of El Guardián, the telephone tapping system of the Interior Ministry, which can only be accessed with judicial authorization. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Gabriela Fosatti, investigates in depth the use that Astesiano had of this tool, it was reported.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:13 UTC
Mexico: Tourist climbs Chichen Itza Castle without permission and locals call for sacrifice

An angry mob almost lynched a tourist who climbed without permission the steps of the Castillo de Kukulcán, one of the new seven wonders of the modern world located in the archaeological zone of Chichén Itzá, in southeastern Mexico.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:13 UTC
Uruguayan Defense Minister reviews troops in Middle East

Uruguay's Defense Minister Javier García reviewed the South American country's peacekeeping mission in Sinai 40 years after its deployment.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:11 UTC
Cuban music legend Pablo Milanés dies aged 79

Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés died Monday in Madrid, after being hospitalized for a series of cancer-related infections. He was 79.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:07 UTC
Argentina promoting medium and small companies exports to UK

Sponsored by the Argentine Foreign and International trade ministry, a business delegation from Argentina visited the UK for a round of negotiations involving companies linked to the food and beverage industries.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:00 UTC
Brazil encouraged with UK larger quota for chicken meat and sugar

Brazil is forecasted to gain a 19.3% larger quota of chicken meat exports to the UK in accordance with the bilateral agreement signed last November 17 at the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to information from the financial press agency Valor.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC
With Argentine wheat crop failing, Brazil appeals to Russian grain, but it has its problems

A severe drought, followed by several episodes of frost, is expected to reduce Argentine wheat harvest by 40% from initial estimates to around 11/12 million tons, which is expected to have an impact on the Mercosur partner Brazil.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:46 UTC
COVID-19 back on the rise in Argentina

Six people were reported Sunday to have died of COVID-19 in Argentina as 2,206 new infections were detected last week nationwide, a 48% increase in just one week (1,486 by Nov. 13).
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC
Lula back home from larynx surgery

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Hospital Sírio Libanês in São Paulo after undergoing larynx surgery Sunday for a lesion in his left vocal cord.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC
Eight people killed in Medellín air crash

Eight people were reported dead after a light aircraft crashed in a residential area after declaring an emergency following takeoff at Medellín's Olaya Herrera Airport, the same air terminal where famous tango singer Carlos Gardel and his band were killed in an airplane crash on June 24, 1935.