Stories for January 16th 2024

Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 15:03 UTC
Pilot working to extinguish a fire in Chile died after crashing on a highway

A Spanish pilot lost his life on Monday when the firefighting plane he was operating crashed in the central Maule region, as reported by the National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) of Chile.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 14:04 UTC
Funding request approved for Falkland Islands Meat Company

Following the sitting of Executive Council on Tuesday 12 December 2023 a paper was approved to provide additional funding of £1 million to the Falkland Islands Meat Company (FIMCO). The paper was also approved at Standing Finance Committee.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 12:24 UTC
Itaipú: No progress after Presidents of Brazil and Paraguay meet

Talks between Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Santiago Peña of Paraguay reached nowhere Monday in Brasilia as both leaders failed to reach an agreement over the Itaipú dam electricity fares. However, dialogue will continue.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:20 UTC
Boric keen on not mirroring Ecuador's crisis

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday said during an engagement in the Coquimbo Region that his administration needed to do things to not have to go through the crisis Ecuador is experiencing. “We have to ask ourselves how we do things so that we don't get to that place,” Boric underlined.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:17 UTC
Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured

Only five of the 48 prison inmates that escaped Monday from the Esmeraldas jailhouse were recaptured later in the day according to sources from Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's administration quoted by local media.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:10 UTC
Peru: Repsol argues area affected by La Pampilla spill is fit for use

The Spanish oil company Repsol said Monday that the Peruvian beaches affected by the 2022 La Pampilla spill were again fit for travelers.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:56 UTC
Milei fooled by fake X account

Argentine President Javier Milei was tricked Monday by a fake X account pretending to be Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, and responded by criticizing the latter's tenure as economy minister under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:17 UTC
Venezuela: Maduro says Milei a “fatal mistake”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday said his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei was a “fatal error” because of his State-capping economic policies. “You are a mistake in the history of Latin America, Milei, a fatal mistake in the history of Argentina,” Maduro said during his annual message before the National Assembly in Caracas.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:00 UTC
Casino market suggests it could be time to revive million pound drop adaptations in America

Various British game shows have found success on the other side of the Atlantic, in different international adaptations. The Million Pound Drop was a popular offering that ran for 15 seasons over there and spawned spinoff editions in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, and numerous other nations.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 09:18 UTC
Online bingo is helping the pastime to spread across South America

Prior to the turn of the millennium, bingo wasn’t a major pastime across South America. You could find games in certain places, but it certainly wasn’t mainstream. While the game blew up in the USA and the UK, it never really spread around this continent in the same way.