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Montevideo, September 7th 2024 - 23:53 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 21:10 UTC

    Brazilian airliner falls with 62 people on board

    The French-built aircraft was bound for Guarulhos International Airport

    An ATR-72 twin turboprop of Voepass Linhas Aéreas crashed Friday in the Sao Paulo State residential area of Vinhedo while approaching Guarulhos International Airport. None of the total 62 people (58 passengers and four crew members) on board is believed to have survived.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 21:06 UTC

    Power restored to customers in Santiago Metropolitan Region

    The electricity company Enel now faces other challenges, Pardow stressed

    The Chilean Government said Friday that the electricity company Enel had met Thursday's goal to restore supply to 20,000 households in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (MR) after an outage that lasted seven days.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina: Pictures of beaten Fabiola Yáñez released

    “You have been hitting me for three days,” Yáñez was quoted as telling Fernández

    Photographs of former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez with bruises allegedly due to beatings she received from then-President Alberto Fernández were released Thursday by local media. In addition, video footage of TV celebrity Tamara Pettinato sipping beer in the presidential office at Casa Rosada also went public. Although his face is not seen, the voice speaking with Pettinato in an intimate tone resembles that of Fernández.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei tours Vaca Muerta and Chile with a focus on energy investments

    We have the second-largest shale oil reserves in the world and we can be an exporting power, Milei argued

    Argentine President Javier Milei resumed his mileage accruing habit Thursday with a trip to Vaca Muerta in the Patagonian province of Neuquén and later to Santiago, where he met with local businessmen but not with Gabriel Boric Font.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentine gov't lifts operational restrictions from BA's Aeroparque

    Aeroparque is the second-busiest air terminal in Argentina

    The Argentine administration of President Javier Milei adopted new measures to further deepen the open skies policies regarding Buenos Aires' metropolitan Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP/SABE) airfield.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

    Paraguay urges US to speed up Ambassador's departure

    The loss of trust towards a person should not damage the relationship between the two countries, FM Ramírez argued

    The Paraguayan Government Thursday asked the United States to speed up the departure from Asunción of Ambassador Marc Ostfield after the diplomat spoke in favor of the sanctions applied by the OFAC to the tobacco company Tabesa, linked to former President Horacio Cartes, the mentor of the incumbent Santiago Peña.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 08:59 UTC

    Argentina upgrades Petrel Antarctic base air and maritime facilities

    The new landing strip was first tested last June with a Saab 340

    The three services of the Argentine Armed Forces, together with private sector companies have finished upgrading landing facilities at the Antarctic base of Petrel in the Antarctic Peninsula. Accordingly during the month of June a first medium sized aircraft, Saab 340 from the Argentine Air Force landed successfully at the new landing strip.

  • Friday, August 9th 2024 - 08:34 UTC

    Maduro bans X from Venezuela for 10 days

    After 10 days a final measure is to be taken, according to Maduro's announcement

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Thursday banned the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) for 10 days. He also accused its owner Elon Musk of “inciting hatred” in the South American country. Maduro has also singled out WhatsApp, Instagram, and TikTok as “multipliers of hate”.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 22:11 UTC

    Brazil expels Nicaraguan ambassador in reciprocity for Managua's gesture

    Ortega never replied to Lula's requests for direct talks regarding an incarcerated clergyman

    The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday expelled Nicaragua's Ambassador Fulvia Patricia Castro Matus from Brasilia in retaliation for Managua's decision to send Breno Dias da Costa home for failing to show up at the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution on July 19, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 20:36 UTC

    Santiago's electricity company given ultimatum

    In case of failure, the Government would move on to the adversarial phase, Pardow explained

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday gave the electricity company Enel until midnight local time to reconnect the service to some 20,000 households in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (MR) where the outage reached its seventh day in a row. Energy Minister Diego Pardow held a press conference to explain the impending steps to terminate Enel's concession should it fail to deliver.