Stories for August 2023

Monday, August 28th 2023 - 10:24 UTC
Chilean top military brass letter to President Boric on the 50th anniversary of the coup

Just a couple of weeks before the commemoration events of the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup d'état (11 September), retired Generals and Admirals addressed a letter to President Gabriel Boric.
Monday, August 28th 2023 - 10:14 UTC
Falklands Argos Resources negotiating its North Falkland Basin production license with Canadian company

Falkland Islands oil and gas exploration Argos Resources Ltd has announced changes in its board of directors, until a general meeting of shareholders is announced, and the executive directors finalize the sale of its PL001 production license interests in the North Falkland Basin to JHI Associates. The Argos sold asset is expected to be a shareholding in JHI.
Monday, August 28th 2023 - 09:11 UTC
Paraguay and Brazil agree on data exchange to expedite border crossings

Mercosur partners Paraguay and Brazil have agreed to exchange migratory information to strengthen bilateral security across mutual border crossings, it was reported in Asunción.
Monday, August 28th 2023 - 09:00 UTC
BRICS is the future, Bolivian FM says

Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta insisted Sunndnay that his country was looking out “to the future and the future is BRICS,” the bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, to which six new members including Argentina will join effective Jan. 1, 2024.
Monday, August 28th 2023 - 08:52 UTC
Lula highlights the importance of Portuguese-speaking countries

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday insisted before the 14th Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) in São Tomé, capital of São Tomé and Príncipe, an island country off the west coast of Africa, that the group brought together almost 300 million consumers across four continents, with a GDP of US$ 2.3 trillion, Agência Brasil reported.
Monday, August 28th 2023 - 08:20 UTC
Massa announces measures for the poorest leading up to the elections

Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate on behalf of the Ruling Unión por la Patria (UP) Sunday announced a series of measures towards improving the people's situation through the current crisis ahead of the Oct. 22 elections.
Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 15:41 UTC
Guyana: Former slave-owning British PM family apologies not enough

Activists were not entirely satisfied with Friday's apology speech by a descendant of former British Prime Minister and slave exploiter/trader William Gladstone at the University of Guyana and insisted reparations worth around US$ 1.2 trillion were due as messages along the lines of “our ancestors deserve real justice” became rife.
Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 15:02 UTC
Recife subway strike ends after 23 days

Workers of Recife's underground have announced the end of their 23-day strike. Therefore, trains in the capital of the Brazilian State of Pernambuco will be running again as of Monday, it was decided late Friday.
Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 14:48 UTC
Emperor penguins in danger due to sea ice melting

According to a peer-reviewed British Antarctic Survey report released late last week, the melting of sea ice might have caused the death of some 10,000 Emperor penguin chicks by the end of 2022.
Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 14:36 UTC
Argentina to keep collecting Paraná Waterway toll, FM says

Argentina will continue to collect tolls from barges sailing through the Paraná-Paraguay River Waterway “because it is something that was contemplated,” Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero said this weekend after his Paraguayan colleague Rubén Ramírez's announcement last week otherwise. “A toll is not going to define the relationship between both countries,”.