Stories for 2022

Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Argentina: Water emergency extended, insufficient rainfall in main rivers' basins

Argentina has announced that it will extend the Water Emergency Crisis warning for another six months due to insufficient rainfall in the Paraná, Paraguay, and Iguazú river basins.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
Eichmann audios recorded in Argentina to be released

An Israeli documentary to be released shortly features voice recordings of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Mossad in the early 1960s in San Fernando, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was reported.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:15 UTC
Brazil sacks Petrobras CEO yet again

Brazil's Government has replaced yet again the chairman of the state-run oil company Petrobras in which private investors also have a share.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
Biden on Asian tour amid growing military threats from China, N.Korea

US President Joseph Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Monday at Tokyo's State House to discuss their two countries' joint deterrence and response capabilities in case of a military conflict involving China, which has sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone in recent weeks.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 08:55 UTC
Ukraine war: Poland wants Norway to share windfall gains from oil and gas sales

Norway which is western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, and also has one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend, according to Tsvetana Parakova from Oilprice.
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 23:54 UTC
Lacalle Pou with a green message in London: Uruguay “is among the strongest democracies in the world”

By Graham Bound for MercoPress (London) – Only on the most serene of news-days might a visit to the United Kingdom by the President of Uruguay make headlines in the country’s newspapers and broadcast bulletins. For a little while it actually looked as if there might be just such a benign news environment. But as President Luis Lacalle Pou took his seat at Canning House, the Latin America and Iberia think tank, on Monday evening to deliver a lecture titled “Uruguay, a Reliable Gateway to South America – Opportunities in Green Finance”, he must have known that he had been totally eclipsed by his host, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:43 UTC
Alberto Fernández eyes Antarctica for May 25 celebration

Argentine President Alberto Fernández has announced he would spend the May 25 National Holiday at a school in the Esperanza Base in Antarctica, weather permitting. The move would allow him to skip the traditional religious service at Buenos Aires' cathedral.
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:39 UTC
Boric enacts minimum-wage increase bill for Chileans

Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday signed into law a minimum wage hike so that “no one is left behind.”
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:37 UTC
Nearly 34,000 arrested under El Salvador's state of emergency

Around 34,000 people have been placed under arrest thanks to the state of emergency in force in El Salvador since March 27, it was reported Monday as Congress is set to agree on yet another extension of the measure. Human rights organizations have warned of arbitrary arrests.
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:34 UTC
Argentina launches website to boost “nature” tourism

Argentina's Ministry of Tourism has launched a new website called “La Ruta Natural” (The Natural Route) to promote domestic trips to the various attractions nationwide.