Uruguayan opposition presidential candidate Yamandú Orsi this weekend supported a peaceful and negotiated solution to the Venezuelan crisis and insisted that suffering should be the least possible. The Broad Front nominee made those remarks when commenting on Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's suggestion that a coalition government of the ruling PSUV and the challenging PUD could be arranged pending fresh elections.
Argentine authorities last week dismantled what was believed to be an Islamist terrorist cell planning to attack Jewish community sites in the province of Mendoza and arrested seven suspects in the process, some trying to cross over to Chile and others at the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires.
Supporters of Venezuela's opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) took to the streets of Caracas and of numerous other cities worldwide Saturday to insist that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia needs to be recognized as the winner of the July 28 polls instead of the incumbent Nicolás Maduro, whom the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced as victor despite never producing the minutes to back up such a statement.
China and Brazil celebrated on August 15, fifty years of diplomatic relations, which with time paved the way for Beijing to become Latin America's largest economy main trading partner.
In July 2024 the Falkland Islands Fisheries Department conducted a routine pre-season survey prior to the second Loligo season, working in close partnership with local fishing companies. The survey results showed the lowest second pre-season biomass estimate since 2008, with the lower end of the estimate being below the Fisheries Department safe stock replenishment threshold of 10,000 tonnes.
A new case of monkeypox was confirmed Friday in the Argentine province of Corrientes, bringing the total number of cases in the country to six in the same week that the World Health Organization declared the malady a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) after an outbreak in Africa.
The Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of Uruguay's Central Bank (BCU) decided Friday to maintain the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 8.5% for the third month in a row to help keep inflation downwards and en route to the 4.5% Monetary Policy Horizon, it was announced in Montevideo after the first Copom meeting chaired by BCU's new president, Washington Ribeiro.
Brazil's Health Ministry issued a sanitary bulletin Friday admitting that Oropouche fever has spread nationwide, except for only five out of the 27 States, namely the Federal District (Brasilia), Goiás, Paraná, Rio Grande do Norte, and Rio Grande do Sul, Agencia Brasil reported.
The Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council passed a resolution Friday urging Venezuelan authorities, political forces, and citizenry to abide by the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Mexico City on August 13, 2021, as well as the Partial Agreement on the Promotion of Political Rights and Electoral Guarantees for All signed in Barbados on October 17, 2023, and therefore abstain from any conduct that might jeopardize the peaceful settlement of this crisis, fully respecting the sovereign will of the electorate of Venezuela.
Chile's Supreme Court Friday ordered the immediate release of convicted Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala of Argentine origin because he had served out his sentence by June 14 and had therefore been illegally deprived of his freedom. The Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) activist had been convicted of arson and illegal possession of firearms in 2013.