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Montevideo, December 4th 2024 - 08:48 UTC

Stories for November 2024

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Evo goes on hunger strike, calls for end to road blockades to seek dialogue

    Morales called for friendly international help to make Arce (L) understand.....

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday that he would go on a hunger strike as the conflict between him and his former Minister of Economy and ally, and current president, Luis Arce Catacora, continues to escalate.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Too many overburdened Tesla workers in Germany on sick leave

    “The survey shows how critical the workload at Tesla is,” union leader Dirk Schulze complained

    While leaders at a Tesla plant in Grünheide (Germany) -near Berlin- complained about the high number of employees under sick leave, the trade union spoke of a “shockingly” critical workload resulting in these health problems and has a survey to back that up. “The results are shocking and make me angry,” said Dirk Schulze, head of the IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg district.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 09:51 UTC

    Brazilian rivers in Amazon face mercury contamination risk

    Mercury accumulates in the food chain, especially in fish consumed by the local population

    Four rivers in Amazonian indigenous territories were found to be at a high risk of mercury contamination, above levels considered safe, Agencia Brasil reported this week citing a study by the NGO WWF-Brazil.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 09:37 UTC

    Machado thanks Italian FM for endorsing PUD's alleged win

    Italy's leadership is crucial to accompany the transition to democracy in Venezuela, Machado highlighted

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani for supporting an orderly transition from the Bolivarian regime, which intends to cling to power through a fraudulent vote count after the July 28 elections.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 21:40 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve resurfaces in Viña del Mar

    “My silence is due to respect for due process,” Monsalve argued

    After a fortnight virtually in hiding, Chile's former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsavle came back into the limelight Friday in Viña del Mar. His whereabouts had been unknown since resigning following rape charges filed against him.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 21:14 UTC

    Argentina's Central Bank lowers basic interest rate

    The benchmark interest rate was standing at 133% when Milei took office

    Given the significant fall in Argentina's inflation rate, the Central Bank (BCRA) announced Friday that it was lowering the basic interest rate from 40% to 35% in a move to “boost private credit.”

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 17:10 UTC

    Lacalle Pou hints at possible return in 2029, talks about regional relations

    The president suggested he would remain engaged in politics, saying, “I will be surrounded by people and politics, because that makes me feel a better person.”

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, months from completing his term, hinted at a possible return in the 2029 presidential election but left the door open.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Wages in Uruguay grow 6.95% year-on-year, although real wages fall in September

    Inflation deducted, salaries posted a 0.31% setback

    According to a report from Uruguay National Statistics Institute (INE) released Thursday in Montevideo, wages grew 6.95% in the last twelve months. The Average Wage Index (AWI) had a monthly variation of 0.07% in September for a 6.13% accumulated so far in 2024. In terms of categories, the private sector grew the most, with 7.20%, while the public sector showed an increase of 6.50%.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Bukele's El Salvador to send troops to Haiti

    Bukele has already claimed he can fix the Haitian gang crisis as he did in his country

    El Salvador's Congress gave its nod this week to the sending of troops to help violence-torn Haiti where crime gangs reign supreme. At first, El Salvador's assistance will be focused on medevac operations in coordination with the United Nations (UN) blue helmets deployed in the Caribbean country. The Parliamentarian decision thus ratified with 57 votes out of 60 the so-called ”Agreement on the Condition of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMAS) in Haiti” signed by the diplomatic missions of El Salvador and Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS).

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Brazil: Unemployment down in 3Q

    Only in December 2013 was unemployment lower since these measurements started in 2012

    According to a report from Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released Thursday, unemployment in South America's largest country fell to 6.4 % in the third quarter of 2024 (from July to September), Agencia Brasil reported. These figures are 0.5 percentage points lower than between April and June, when it stood at 6.9%. Compared to July–September 2023, the drop is 1.3 percentage points. In that quarter, the rate was 7.7%.