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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 23:11 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

    Paraguayan pork exports record significant increase

    The main destinations were Taiwan, Uruguay and Georgia

    According to a report from Paraguay's National Service of Animal Quality and Health (Senacsa) released this week in Asunción, pork exports have been recording growing numbers since 2019 and reached a 173% increase from 2022 to 2023.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:15 UTC

    Uruguay: Inflation within target for first time in many years

    “The CPI for December 2023 registered a monthly variation of -0.11%,” Uruguay's INE said in its report

    Inflation in Uruguay during the year 2023 amounted to 5.1%, it was reported in Montevideo. The South American country's lowest rate in 18 years was achieved mainly thanks to prices reasonably stable in household goods, transportation, and communications, it was explained by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew only 4.9% in 2005.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

    Jones-Huala extradited yet again to Chile

    Jones Huala might be just months from being released in Chile

    Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala was extradited Thursday for a second time in his life from Argentina to Chile to serve out the remainder of his prison sentence for a 2013 arson attack. Jones Huala was escorted across the Andes by Interpol and law enforcement officers from both countries.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 09:46 UTC

    Brazilian support for Argentine sovereignty claim over the Falklands

    Brasilia the modern capital of Brazil, the leading economy of Latin America

    On Wednesday, 3 January, the Brazilian government made an official statement in support of its second trade partner, and Mercosur associate, Argentina, and its sovereignty claim over the Falklands and other South Atlantic Islands.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Icebreaker Irízar pays tribute to ARA San Juan crew

    It was an emotional moment for Captain Recio, who was a close friend of the San Juan's first officer

    The Argentine Navy icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar stopped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean this week, en route to this summer's Antarctic campaign, at the site where the doomed submarine ARA San Juan was found off Comodoro Rivadavia in 2018, paying tribute to the crew and demanding justice from the ongoing investigation into the unit's 2017 sinking.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentina: Malvinas claim recognizes Islanders “interests” and a “mature relation” with Britain

    Argentine Foreign minister Diana Mondino, “bilateral negotiations taking into account the interests of the inhabitants of the Islands”

    The third of January has been an iconic date for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands, since on that day but in 1833, the “United Kingdom forcibly occupied the Malvinas Islands over which ”a recently independent Argentine Nation was exercising sovereignty, given her condition of heir to such possessions of Spain in South America.”

  • Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Argentine judge orders Emtrasur Jumbo handed over to the US

    Venezuela threatened Latin American countries allowing the B-747-300 to fly back to the United States that such an acquiescence would be interpreted as a hostile act

    Lomas de Zamora Federal Judge Federico Villena, who has jurisdiction over Buenos Aires' international Ezeiza Airport, Wednesday acquiesced to a request from the United States and ordered the Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft belonging to Venezuelan carrier Empresa de Transporte de Aerocargo del Sur (Emtrasur), after obtaining it from Iran's Mahan Air handed over to Washington.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    The 1933 Whalebone Arch which commemorates British continuous rule in Falklands

    The Whalebone Arch in Stanley City, adjacent to the cathedral, the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world, a must for visitors to enjoy and picture a souvenir

    One of the attractions when visiting the Falkland Islands' capital Stanley City is the Whalebone Arch, adjacent to the cathedral, the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world. Locals, tourists and cruise visitors love to enjoy and picture the impressive mandibles of blue whales in the arch, but not many are aware it was erected in 1933, to commemorate the centenary of continuous British administration in the Falklands. The land and garden that forms the Arch Green (formerly Cathedral Green) was given by the Falkland Islands Company to the Falkland Islands Government for the leisure of the people of Stanley, and enjoyment of visitors.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Falklands Rockhopper set to receive huge sum because of an arbitration with Italy

    CEO Moody, “We are hopeful that this new funding will largely or entirely fulfill our equity requirements for Sea Lion”

    Falklands oil company, Rockhopper Exploration PLC has agreed with a regulated specialist fund to monetize the arbitration award. The award announced in August 2022 relates to arbitration against Italy involving Ombrina Mare oil field in the Adriatic. (*)

  • Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

    Lula should run for reelection in 2026, Haddad says

    Haddad acknowledged that at some point the issue of Lula's succession will come up. “And I think there should be some concern about that”

    Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said Wednesday that there was consensus among the ruling coalition that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should seek reelection in 2026.