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Montevideo, January 12th 2025 - 04:24 UTC

Stories for 2022

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

    Argentina targeting export industries, facilitates the import of fertilizers

    Argentina plays an important international role as a global supplier and exporter of soybeans, wheat, corn and other food commodities

    Argentina has eased conditions for importers of fertilizers and crops' protection products, among other issues by facilitating access to much scarce foreign currency. The Central Bank has increased restrictions on sumptuary imports, traveling, and overseas purchases given the lack of sufficient dollar reserves for the purchase of industry imports.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Scioli off to Brazil in a move to cut down Argentina's trade deficit

    Scioli is playing an increasingly active role in the Alberto Fernández administration.

    Argentina's Productive Development Minister Daniel Scioli is taking center stage this week as he leaves Wednesday for Sao Paulo on a mission to overcome the sustained trade deficit between his country and Brazil, where he has served as Ambassador up until last month when he was summoned to Buenos Aires to replace Matías Kulfas.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

    Brazil 2022 soybean exports remain flat but processed oilseed has climbed

    The soybean crop in Brazil, is almost complete, totaling 125.8 million tons, 300,000 more than the previous estimate and 9.4% below the 2021 record

    Brazil expects soybean exports to reach 76.8 million tons in 2022, a 200,000-ton decrease from the estimate released in June, while oilseed processing in the country was adjusted upwards, with good margins for the production of bran and oil, according to Abiove, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

    Falklands' SAERI project on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems of the Southwest Atlantic

    Dr Tabitha Pearman chairing the session ‘Habitat mapping for maritime spatial planning within an ecosystem based approached’.

    Research from the Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) project has been showcased at the GeoHab Conference held at The Venice International University in Italy during the month of May 2022.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

    Evo says Argentine motorbiker was not denied medical help

    On the Day of Argentine-Bolivian Confraternity, when Argentina filed a protest against Bolivia for possible malpractice in the death of a motorbiker, President Fernández had lunch with Evo

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Tuesday said over lunch at Casa Rosada with President Alberto Fernández that the retired Salta teacher who died after a motorcycling accident near Santa Cruz de la Sierra had received all possible medical care, thus contradicting statements from his family and friends.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

    Biden and AMLO discuss immigration, oil supply, and China's role

    It was comfortably accepted that China would be the world's factory, with the fallacious idea that, because of globality, we could import whatever we needed, AMLO told Biden

    Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and Joseph Biden of the United States Wednesday held their second face-to-face meeting, and the first since the Latin American leader chose not to attend last month's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles following the White House's decision not to invite Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to the event.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    IAPA concerned over Costa Rican President's onslaught against newspaper

    Chaves had vowed to destroy media who recalled he was involved in sexual harassment allegations during his tenure at the World Bank

    The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) Tuesday expressed its concern over the future of free speech in Costa Rica following the attacks of the Government of President Rodrigo Chaves against La Nación, which included “administrative actions” against the newspaper one of the companies owning it.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

    Chilean deputies create committee to investigate Conviasa A-340 flights

    The lawmakers were not pleased with Chilean intelligence reports saying there was nothing unusual about those flights

    Chile's Lower House Tuesday approved the creation of a special committee to investigate the case of the Airbus A-340-600 with Venezuelan registration YV-3533 bearing flag carrier Conviasa's colors which has reportedly landed around 13 times in Santiago this year, probably carrying Iranian passengers with unclear intentions, it was announced.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

    Milestone Parliament debate on Queen's Guards iconic bear skin caps

    The petition rapidly hit over 100,000 signatures, triggering the important debate.

    A milestone debate took place in the House of Commons on Monday, during which Members of Parliament from several political parties scrutinized the Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) continued use of real bear fur for the Queen’s Guard’s caps and spoke passionately about the need to switch to faux fur.

  • Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:14 UTC

    UK Ministry of Defense criticizes BBC Panorama program for putting “armed forces personnel at risk”

    MOD has put out a strong statement criticising “unjustified conclusions” in an upcoming documentary, “SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?”

    British Armed Forces personnel have been put “at risk both in the field and in reputation” by BBC Panorama's episode about SAS operations in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) has said. MOD has put out a strong statement criticizing “unjustified conclusions” in an upcoming hour-long documentary, called SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?