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Stories for June 2023

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 15:14 UTC

    Falklands budget, “it won't be easy for the private sector”

    Mike Summers, “government competes constantly with the private sector for labor in the middle and lower ranks”

    The latest announcements on the Falkland Islands budget have not gone without comments from the Falklands Chamber of Commerce and its current president Mike Summers, according to an interview on the local television channel.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 14:49 UTC

    Punta Arenas optimistic about the 2023/24 cruise season

    Punta Arenas terminal said that between 180 and 190 cruise calls are expected for the 2023/24 season, involving some 90,000 passengers

    Port authorities from Punta Arenas in the extreme south Chile, have revealed what they are expecting for the coming cruise season, following a 2022/23 season considered acceptable, although with a lesser number of passengers.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:57 UTC

    Deforestation in Amazon drops 31% interannually

    From January to May this year, there was a 31% drop in deforestation,” João Paulo Capobianco said at a press conference.

    According to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), deforestation fell 31% in the Legal Amazon, from January to May 2023, compared to the same period last year, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Fitch upgrades Uruguay's rating

    Uruguay Economy Ministry Azucena Arbeleche

    Thanks to Uruguay's ”solid fiscal performance that allowed it to absorb the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic, added to the track record of compliance with the fiscal framework, which has improved its credibility, increased resilience to economic shocks and reduced the risk of a potential increase in the stock of public debt.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Petro warns “soft coup” against him will not prevail

    Castillo was alone. Petro is not alone, the Colombian President stressed.

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Wednesday said he could face the same fate as Peru's Pedro Castillo Terrones as Congress might try to impeach him out of office. “Once the reforms are overthrown, they intend to destroy me in the Commission of Accusations,” Petro argued while urging lawmakers not to betray “the will of the people”.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Sonnenholzner to run for president of Ecuador

    Sonnenholzner was vice president under Lenin Moreno

    Former Ecuadorian Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner Wednesday confirmed he will enter this year's snap elections called after President Guillermo Lasso enacted the so-called crossed-death mechanism which meant dissolving Parliament and ruling by decree until new lawmakers and a new head of state are chosen.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Historical number of foreigners visit Argentina in April

    “We no longer speak of recovery but of growth in international tourism,” Lammens said

    Over 619,000 foreign travelers reached Argentina in the month of April, thus setting a YoY increase of 105.2%, a historical record for this month, according to the latest report of the National Directorate of Markets and Statistics of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

    Chile's Constitutional Council instated

    I hope that all of us are aware of what we can achieve when we are capable of putting the common good above our particular interests, Boric said

    Chile's Constitutional Council, a body of 50 people that will pen a new Constitution, was instated Wednesday in Santiago in a new attempt to change the 1980 Magna Carta inherited from Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The first try succumbed in a plebiscite in September of 2022.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 09:12 UTC

    Messi picks MLS Inter Miami offer to continue his club career

    Messi already owns a home in Miami

    Argentine star Lionel Messi will continue his professional footballing career in the United States, playing for Inter Miami, it was announced Wednesday.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 08:59 UTC

    UK's CBI survives, but many questions remain and members holding out

    Rain Newton-Smith, its new director general, said the result is “a really strong mandate from our members”

    The powerful lobby Confederation of British Industry, CBI has won a key confidence vote over its future after members overwhelmingly backed the lobby group following a series of scandals.