Stories for 2023

Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 12:43 UTC
Argentina to export oil to Chile again

Beginning in June, Argentina will resume exporting oil to Chile after 17 years, the website Rio Negro reported.
Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 12:18 UTC
Brazil passes law requiring race and ethnicity data in employee records

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed into law an amendment to the Statute of Racial Equality, requiring the inclusion of race and ethnicity information in administrative employee records in the public and private sectors. The move is intended to “promote ethnic equality and combat social inequalities resulting from racism,” according to the federal government. Law 14.553/23 also mandates a survey conducted every five years by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics to measure the percentage of occupation of these segments in the public sector. The government aims to produce information that can help overcome racial stigmas and guide public policy implementation.
Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 12:09 UTC
Mexican Interior Secretary denies rumors about AMLO's health

Mexican Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López Monday denied President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had suffered a heart attack or was even hospitalized following local media reports in that regard. AMLO is in isolation due to Covid-19, it was reported.
Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 11:52 UTC
Lula wants partnerships with private companies in developments to come

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Monday told a group of businessmen in the Portuguese city of Porto that his country was not willing to sell any public company but it would nevertheless welcome private entrepreneurship “to partner with us in what we need to create anew.”
Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 11:47 UTC
Deportation flights to Havana resumed

The United States has resumed its deportation flights to Cuba of the so-called undesirable migrants after the procedures were halted during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed.
Monday, April 24th 2023 - 18:42 UTC
Mount Pleasant Complex runway in Falkland Islands undergoes successful refurbishment

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has completed a project worth almost £7 million to extend the lifespan of the runways and taxiways at the Mount Pleasant Complex airfield in the Falkland Islands. The project was awarded to Mitie in June 2022, and was undertaken by sub-contractor Gatwick Construction, with work commencing at the end of January.
Monday, April 24th 2023 - 17:05 UTC
Worldwide military expenditure increased 3,7% in 2022, SIPRI report

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a leading global security think tank, reported that countries around the world are spending record amounts of money in defense budgets. Some of the reasons for this new trend, inflation, the war in Ukraine, US efforts to outpace China.
Monday, April 24th 2023 - 17:02 UTC
Argentine inflation has the country printing money in France, Malta, Spain, China and Brazil

The explosive inflation situation in chaotic Argentina, close to 120% in twelve months, with the CPI at 7,7% in March ( and roaring during the three weeks of April) is showing that the country is incapable of supplying the necessary demand for bills and thus must appeal to the printing in foreign mint houses, of billions of Argentine bills.
Monday, April 24th 2023 - 16:53 UTC
ECLAC downgrades growth estimates to 1,2% this year for Latin America and the Caribbean

New projections released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, estimate all sub-regions will experience lower growth this year compared with 2022.
Monday, April 24th 2023 - 16:32 UTC
Moscow warns Ukraine's Black Sea “export channel” conditioned by West obstacles to Russian trade

Moscow warned that the outlook for extending a deal beyond May 18 that allows the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports was “not great” as Russia’s own such exports still faced obstacles.