Stories for 2024

Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 - 09:52 UTC
Peru: Boluarte reshuffles cabinet ahead of congressional vote of confidence

As signatures continue to be collected in Congress to impeach her over the Rolex watch scandal, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte was forced to make a snap cabinet reshuffle.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 23:01 UTC
Ceremonies in Buenos Aires on the Day of the Malvinas Veteran and the Fallen in combat

April 2nd is a very special day in the Argentine calendar, a national holiday, which recalls the Falklands conflict, (when the Argentine military landed and occupied the Islands that day in 1982) and is remembered as the “Day of the Malvinas Veteran and the Fallen in combat”.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 19:54 UTC
Brazilian VP down with Covid-19

Brazil's Vice President Geraldo Alckmin stayed at home Monday after being diagnosed with Covid-19, Agencia Brasil reported. Alckin is also Minister of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 19:05 UTC
Ties between Argentina and Colombia getting back to normal

Diplomatic authorities of Argentina and Colombia have taken “concrete steps” to overcome their government's “differences” and restore ties between both countries to normal following the engagement in reciprocal diatribes on TV and on social media by Presidents Gustavo Petro and Javier Milei.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 18:44 UTC
Google to lay submarine cable between Chile and Australia

Tech giants Google plan to link Chile with Australia and French Polynesia through the Humboldt cable, which would become first direct submarine link between South America and Oceania, thus expanding the digital infrastructure of the South Pacific.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 12:32 UTC
Uruguay reports 224 case of dengue disease transmitted by mosquitoes

Uruguay has reported 224 cases of the mosquito transmitted disease dengue, including three related deaths, of which 113 are identified as autochthonous and 111 imported, according to the latest release (March 30) from the country's Public Health Ministry, MSP. The release also mentions imported cases of chikungunya (1) from Brazil and zika (2) from Southeast Asia.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 12:22 UTC
Federal Reserve chairman Powell, “in no rush to begin cutting interest rates”

Despite an encouraging Personal Consumption Expenditure Index, PCE, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell repeated on Sunday that the U.S. central bank isn’t in any rush to cut interest rates as policymakers await more evidence that inflation is contained.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 12:16 UTC
Falklands: happy birthday to the Typhoon

It’s 30 years today since the first Eurofighter Typhoon flight of Development Aircraft 1 (DA1) at Manching in Germany. The first UK development aircraft, DA2, flew a few weeks later at Warton on the 6th April 1994.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Paraguay records highest economic growth in the region in 2023

Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) issued a report last week announcing that the country had recorded the highest regional growth in the last quarter of 2023, with a positive rate of 4.9%.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:57 UTC
Milei denounces intimidating threats on social media

Argentine President Javier Milei wrote Sunday on social media about intimidating messages and death threats he had been receiving. He showed drawings of himself, one of them captioned: “The noise will be the tomb of the regime.” Milei also questioned reporters “who joined the wave of violence.”