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Montevideo, December 21st 2024 - 13:45 UTC

Stories for August 2024

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 22:06 UTC

    Venezuelan gov't offered Sandinista fighters in case of civil war

    Lula's “was not a very clean government,” Ortega claimed. “I could say a dozen more things,” he went on.

    Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega offered his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro the help of his “Sandinista fighters” in case of civil war in the South American country, where the opposition insists on not admitting the National Electoral Council's (CNE) announcement that the incumbent had been reelected on July 28.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 15:39 UTC

    HRW against repeating Venezuelan elections

    Goebertus also urged these three “governments to insist on independent verification of the results”

    The governments of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia were sent letters by Human Rights Watch (HRW) pointing out that repeating the elections In Venezuela would serve no purpose. The New York-headquartered non-governmental organization known for advocating in favor of political prisoners and other victims of injustice added that the proposal put forward by these three Latin American countries would be a “mockery,” while granting President Nicolás Maduro's regime an amnesty “would violate international law and affect the rights of victims of atrocities.”

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Argentina: Breakup among Libertarian lawmakers imminent

    Arrieta said Martín Menem called her “a little whore”

    Libertarian Congresswoman Lourdes Arrieta, who gained notoriety for claiming she did not know who the people she visited with a group of fellow lawmakers at the Ezeiza penitentiary because she had been born in 1993, keeps undermining whichever unity President Javier Milei's Parliamentarians might have left by denouncing House Speaker Martín Menem for allegedly labeling the female deputies of his bloc as ”whores.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

    Latin America on alert over oropuche spread

    Before the July 25, 2024, report from Brazilian authorities, there was no record of oropouche being deadly

    With two confirmed deaths caused by oropouche, health authorities in Brazil, Cuba and Colombia are concerned about the recent outbreak of the malady in the region. Other countries do not even keep track of the number of patients who might have contracted the disease and are therefore doing little to nothing to prevent it from spreading, not even after the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) alert last month.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:52 UTC

    Jet fuel shortage grounds numerous flights in Colombia

    Carriers able to fly as scheduled have upped the price of their tickets by 50%

    Jet fuel shortages have led airlines operating in Colombia to reschedule their services. The problem was reportedly caused by an electrical failure at the Cartagena refinery on Aug. 16.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    Foreign Ministers of Iran and Venezuela ratify partnership

    “We reaffirmed the solid friendship between our countries,” Gil stressed

    The Foreign Ministers of Venezuela, Yván Gil, and Iran, Abbas Araghchi, held a telephone conversation during which their countries' willingness to expand bilateral cooperation.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:39 UTC

    Falklands, expect a week of Islands television and radio services outages

    The outages are due to disruption of the signal from the satellite to BFBS receivers by the sun’s rays and are completely unavoidable

    Falkland Islands residents of Stanley and Camp are advised that there will be a disruption to TV and radio services due to sun outages affecting satellite reception in late August into September.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:29 UTC

    Norwegian cruise company promotes South Atlantic and Antarctica in China market

    The road-show is scheduled to take place from Sept. 9 to 13, 2024, with events in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai.

    A leading Norwegian cruise line, pioneer in South Atlantic and Antarctica expeditions is pushing its marketing efforts in China with a new road-show that will visit three cities in the country.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 07:24 UTC

    Punta Arenas expects some 170 cruise calls this season, beginning 14 September

    One of the main vessels expected is Majestic Princess, 330 meters long, has a passenger capacity of 3.600, plus 1.340 crew, and is sailing since 2017

    Some 170 cruise calls and an estimated 100,000 visitors are what the Punta Arenas, Austral Ports Enterprise, Epaiustral, is expecting for the coming 2024/25 season. Of these 128 are internationally flagged vessels, while the remaining fifty belong to local Chilean cruise companies, the Ventus and the Stella Australis.

  • Tuesday, August 27th 2024 - 06:26 UTC

    Falklands' Governor Alison Blake returns to the Islands next week

    Governor Alison Blake will also resume her duty as Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

    The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly and Government House announced on Monday 26th August that the Governor of the Falklands, Alison Blake, CMG will be back in the Islands next week,