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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 10:14 UTC

Stories for June 2024

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Petrobras CEO says oil will lead Brazil's energy transition

    Chambriard has already been in charge of the company since late May when she replaced Jean-Paul Prates

    Despite being de-facto the new CEO of Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras for a while, Magda Chambriard took her oath of office Wednesday during a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brfasil reported. In her speech at the event attended among others by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chambriard insisted that oil would lead the way into energy transition progressively reducing carbon emissions and zeroing them by 2050.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Nationwide blackout hits Ecuador after heavy rains kill 17

    The power outages were due to “a fault in the transmission line” that caused a “cascading disconnection,” Luque explained

    Entire cities across Ecuador were left with no electricity Wednesday at around 3.30 pm just two days after Energy Minister Roberto Luque ruled out that possibility when he downplayed the importance of the cessation of activity of at least three hydroelectric power plants due to heavy rains that caused at least 17 deaths according to preliminary reports. In mid-April, a series of outages led to the dismissal of Luque's predecessor Andrea Arrobo.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentina declassifies intelligence report on AMIA bombing

    The Toma Report was named after the SIDE “Señor 5” under President Eduardo Duhalde

    Argentina's judiciary Wednesday declassified a confidential intelligence report dated in 2003 which delved into Iran's role in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Putin lands in Vietnam to strengthen Russia's alliances in East Asia

    Kim Jong Un called Russia “a true friend” and its President Vladimir Putin “the dearest friend of the Korean people”

    Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Hanoi Wednesday after signing the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement” with North Korea which reshaped the world's military preparedness after Moscow pledged to defend Pyongyang in case of attack by a foreign power. In Vietnam, the Russian president was to hold meetings with local leaders further to strengthen his country's allegiances in the region.

  • Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 09:50 UTC

    Understanding the daily fantasy sports market and Its future potential

    Photo: Unsplash

    The daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry has experienced a meteoric rise in the last couple of decades, shaking off the dated traditions of the Dugout Derby and Pigskin Playoff to evolve into a serious, billion-dollar market.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 20:14 UTC

    Argentina: Milei reckons June's inflation to rebound

    Failing to reach a zero fiscal deficit is also the consequence of politicians delaying the approval of the so-called Bases Law, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei admitted that his country's process of curbing inflation would be making “a pause” from the 4.2% the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced for May this year. In addition to a rebound in the decline, there will be no zero deficit, the Libertarian leader also admitted.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 19:26 UTC

    Hike in electricity bills burdening Chile's inflation policy

    Chile needed not to repeat Argentina's disproportionate fare increases, Ramos explained

    A recent increase in electricity bills has Chile's Central Bank needing to postpone getting the South American country's inflation under control, according to the Monetary Policy Report (IPoM) for June 2024 released Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

    United Nations, is where our threatening neighbor hopes to gather support to rewrite history to suit their colonialist ambitions.

    By MLA Teslyn Barkman

    The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    “Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

    My family had been Falkland Islanders for over 100 years before Argentina first made their claim to the UN.

    A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

    Argentina: Former Governor and Senator given 16 years for rape

    Alperovich and his wife used to be close to Néstor and Cristina Kirchner

    The three-time former governor of the Argentine province of Tucumán José Alperovich was sentenced to 16 years in prison Tuesday for sexually abusing his niece, who worked as his secretary during his term as a national senator. It took Judge Juan Ramos Padilla 15 hearings and testimony from almost 70 witnesses and experts to hand down his verdict and decision which also included the defendant's disenfranchisement.