Stories for January 16th 2023

Monday, January 16th 2023 - 19:47 UTC
Residents evacuated, lake navigation restricted due to fire in Chubut

Around 60 people have been evacuated from their homes in the town of El Hoyo in the Argentine province of Chubut while 135 firefighters were deployed together with three hydrant planes and a helicopter to face the flames having gripped the Currumahuida hill since Sunday afternoon, it was reported.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 19:37 UTC
Evo to open operational HQs in Buenos Aires

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales plans to set up his operational headquarters in Buenos Aires on Jan. 23 to consolidate his plurinational, indigenist movement in the region, it was reported.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 19:29 UTC
Argentina has most bizarre regulations, leading businessman tells Harvard

Francesco Starace, CEO of Italy's Enel, the company owning a majority of Buenos Aires electricity suppliers Edesur, said last week during a convention at the Harvard Business School, that they would be leaving the South American country because it “has the most bizarre regulation in the world.”
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 19:21 UTC
Opening of Itaipu floodgates might relieve Paraná River downspout

The opening of the floodgates at the Itaipú dam during the weekend is expected to bring some relief to the people along the Paraná river shores after 2023 also started with a downspout, although not quite as severe as in previous years.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:30 UTC
Chilean navy reports some 100 jiggers have crossed from the Pacific to the South Atlantic

Over a hundred jiggers have crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the Magellan Strait reports the Chilean navy responsible for monitoring and safe navigation along the waterway.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC
Millions of Venezuelans suffering from nutritional deficit, Maduro tells the National Assembly

Some 2,3 million Venezuelans are exposed and suffering a serious nutritional deficit, according to stats presented by the government of Nicolas Maduro to Congress, but the situation has considerably improved since 2017, when a third of the Venezuelan population (some 11 million) was suffering some kind of food insufficiency.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:23 UTC
“Anthropogenic noise impairs cooperation in bottlenose dolphins”, University of Bristal study

Dolphins working collaboratively are less successful in the presence of sound generated by humans, a University of Bristol-led team of researchers have shown. The findings, published in Current Biology, imply that dolphins cannot minimize the impact of human-made noise, even by adjusting their own vocal behavior.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:20 UTC
Biden declares “major disaster” in California as storms kill 19

US President Joseph Biden has declared a state of catastrophe in the State of California as unprecedented rains and mudslides leave at least 19 people dead over the past three weeks. Tens of thousands have been also been evacuated.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:16 UTC
Avian flu emergency decreed in Honduras

Honduran authorities have declared a 90-day nationwide health alert following an outbreak of avian influenza among pelicans, it was announced in Tegucigalpa. About 40,000 poultry were also evaluated and no signs of the malady were detected, it was also reported.
Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:12 UTC
Peruvian demonstrators undeterred by gov't measures

Demonstrators gathered Sunday in Lima to express their rejection of President Dina Boluarte's staying in office barely over a month after taking over from the deposed Pedro Castillo Terrones who is held in pre-trial detention.