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Montevideo, December 21st 2024 - 15:07 UTC

Stories for December 2023

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 15:04 UTC

    Interoceanic train launched in Mexico

    The Panama Canal “is already saturated,” AMLO said

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday inaugurated the new interoceanic railroad through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which will cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa, and somehow compete with the 80-kilometer Panama Canal, which takes 8 to 10 hours to cross.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 14:27 UTC

    Uruguayan President to insist on a more flexible Mercosur in his last full year

    With Milei “we will talk as soon as we can,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said on Friday during the inauguration of an intensive care unit in the department (province) of Cerro Largo that “we shall insist on Mercosur to get out of this corset and to be able to connect with the rest of the world.”

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 14:20 UTC

    Milei says Argentina was left in a “regrettable” situation

    Milei insisted those who opposed his DNU were the ones who would lose some privileges

    Argentine President Javier Milei said his country's situation was “regrettable.” He made those remarks Saturday evening during his appearance together with Security Minister Patricia Bullrich on a live TV show with 96-year-old hostess Mirtha Legrand.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 13:35 UTC

    Arrest of former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani ordered

    Cristiani, 76, is said to be residing in Rome, Italy, but his current whereabouts are unknown

    A court in the Salvadoran city of San Francisco Gotera has issued a warrant for the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani (1989-1994) and some former lawmakers for their alleged involvement in the 1981 El Mozote massacre in which around 1,000 peasants were killed during the civil war (1980-1992).

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 13:12 UTC

    Covid-19 shows social inequalities in Brazil and kills 2 in Bolivia

    Patients in private healthcare facilities in Brazil did better on average than those treated in public hospitals for Covid-19

    According to a study by the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz) released this week, COVID-19 turned out to be a reflection of the South American country's socioeconomic and health disparities while in Bolivia -a full Mercosur member since earlier this month- two people have died of the disease.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Milei calls for extraordinary sessions of Congress

    This is what Milei had in mind when he said there was more coming up

    Argentine President Javier Milei issued a decree on Friday calling for extraordinary sessions of Congress between Dec. 26, 2023, and Jan. 31, 2024, to deal with urgent matters. The head of state said earlier this week that “the crisis requires immediate action.” According to the Constitution, during the legislative recess (from Dec. 1 to the last day of February), Congress can only deal with issues specified in the presidential decree calling for extraordinary sessions.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Paraguayan president says he is inspired by Bukele

    Photos of Operation Veneratio showed inmates face down, seated, on their knees, and in underwear, Bukele-style

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña confirmed in an international interview with CNN that he was inspired by his El Salvador colleague Nayib Bukele when launching Operation Veneratio this week, a move to dismantle virtual ownership by the notorious Rotela Clan drug gang of the Tacumbú Penitentiary in Asunción.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 09:58 UTC

    Child labor in Brazil goes up under Bolsonaro

    In Brazil, any form of work is illegal up to the age of 13

    According to a study released this week by the statistics bureau IBGE, child labor went up in Brazil between 2019 and 2022 under then-President Jair Bolsonaro, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Brazilian Air Force flight to repatriate people from Gaza takes off

    The return flight is due at Brasilia's air base on Dec. 23.

    A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) KC-30 aircraft (the military version of the Airbus 330-200 passenger airliner), took off from Rio de Janeiro's Galeão Airport to bring back another batch group of nationals of the South American country who lived in the Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 09:35 UTC

    Paraguay's GDP grows 4.7% in the first 3 quarters of 2023

    Paraguay's GDP grows 4.7% in the first 3 quarters of 2023

    The Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) issued a report on Friday confirming that the South American country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.7% in the third quarter of 2023, after a 3.6% increase over the same period last year, boosted by energy and services, it was reported in Asunción.