Stories for June 22nd 2023

Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:47 UTC
Argentina did nothing to charge toll, Paraguay's Waterway Commission finds

Paraguay's National Waterway Commission concluded that Argentina's technical explanations for charging tolls to vessels sailing through the Parana River between the Port of Santa Fe and the Confluence with the Paraguay River were inadequate and that there was no justification for such a unilateral measure, it was reported in Asunción.
Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:44 UTC
Chilean President forms Commission to solve Mapuche crisis

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font set up a Commission for Peace and Understanding to lay the “foundations for a lasting and sustainable solution to the long-standing intercultural conflict between the Chilean State and the Mapuche people,” it was announced Wednesday in Santiago during the National Day of Indigenous Peoples holiday.
Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 10:00 UTC
Lula has busy agenda in Rome

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentine-born Pope Francis exchanged views for over an hour Wednesday on “the socio-political situation of the region” and discussed ”the promotion of peace (...) the fight against poverty and inequality, the respect for indigenous populations and the protection of the environment”, according to a communiqué.

Argentina did nothing to charge toll, Paraguay's Waterway Commission finds