Stories for December 2022

Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 09:52 UTC
Australia patching up relations with China. Aussie foreign minister in Beijing

After years of strained relations, Australia and China have given the first steps to normalization with the visit of Aussie Foreign Minister Penny Wong to Beijing. Ms Wong is the first Australian minister to visit China since 2019 and is leading Canberra's first formal talks in Beijing since 2018.
Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 01:24 UTC
Suspect in murder of Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia captured in Venezuela

Venezuelan authorities captured in Caracas a sixth suspect in the murder of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in May, when he was spending his honeymoon on a beach in the Colombian Caribbean, Colombian police reported on Wednesday. His crime has been linked to several judiciary processes, such as Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastian Marset, who allegedly ordered the death of the prosecutor.
Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 01:20 UTC
Venezuela: opposition majority calls for the termination of Juan Guaidó's “interim government”

An opposition majority called this Wednesday for the cessation of functions of the “interim government” of Juan Guaidó in Venezuela by considering that, after four years of his self-proclamation, the mechanism was weakened without achieving the objectives of political change set out. This represents a change for dozens of countries that formaly still recognize the parliamentary leader and host opposition ambassadors in their territory.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:57 UTC
Over 4 million people celebrate chopper-borne world champs in Buenos Aires

Over four million Argentine football fans needed in the end to look up to see helicopters carrying the national team players overfly the Obelisk Square area and other parts of Buenos Aires because the bus could simply not get through the crowd along the highway from the Football Association's training camp in Ezeiza.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:55 UTC
Ex UK ambassador Mark Kent celebrates Argentina's World Cup but regrets Carmona's attitude

The head of Argentina's Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands, Guillermo Carmona had a Twitter exchange with former UK ambassador in Buenos Aires Mark Kent, who congratulated and celebrated the Argentine team's win of the Football World Cup in Qatar.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:53 UTC
Tierra del Fuego team planning Falklands trip to assess the economic impact of UK 'usurpation' of the Islands

The economic impact of the “illegal” occupation of the Falklands Islands by the British, is to be analyzed by the Economic Development and Innovation Institute from the Argentine University of Tierra del Fuego, in coordination with other tertiary education centers both public and private.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:24 UTC
Brazil planning to become world's largest cotton exporter, ahead of US

Brazil could become the world’s largest cotton exporter in 2023, because of an increase in the planted area helping it to surpass the United States, which could reduce sowing by 30% to make way for competing crops such as corn, soy, and wheat.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:22 UTC
Abundant rainfall in central Brazil helps Paraná River recover navigable level

After years of forcibly lighter shiploads due to the intense down flow of the Parana River, the water level has begun to grow again, especially in the last couple of months. Thus according to the Rosario Grain Exchange, the average shipload of vessels sailing upriver rose 21% in two months and stood at more than 38,000 tons in November. Furthermore, the current water level is 23% above November last year and 19% above the November 2020 average.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:14 UTC
Ushuaia expects some 540 cruise calls this season, “hopefully an estimated 200,000 visitors”

The current cruise season means some 200,000 tourists will be visiting the extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, based on the announced projection of 540 calls in Ushuaia, according to Dante Querciali, president of Tierra del Fuego Tourism Institute.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:58 UTC
Two coups doomed to fail before they began and the power of big lies

By Gwynne Dyer – Could there be anything more ridiculous than last week’s failed coup attempt in Peru?