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Montevideo, May 18th 2024 - 05:53 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Milei fooled by fake X account

    What the fake account posted “could have been said by the real one without a doubt...,” Milei argued.

    Argentine President Javier Milei was tricked Monday by a fake X account pretending to be Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, and responded by criticizing the latter's tenure as economy minister under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Venezuela: Maduro says Milei a “fatal mistake”

    Milei thinks that “by shrinking the State prosperity will be born by spontaneous generation,” Maduro explained

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday said his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei was a “fatal error” because of his State-capping economic policies. “You are a mistake in the history of Latin America, Milei, a fatal mistake in the history of Argentina,” Maduro said during his annual message before the National Assembly in Caracas.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Casino market suggests it could be time to revive million pound drop adaptations in America

    Photo: Pixabay

    Various British game shows have found success on the other side of the Atlantic, in different international adaptations. The Million Pound Drop was a popular offering that ran for 15 seasons over there and spawned spinoff editions in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, and numerous other nations.

  • Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 09:18 UTC

    Online bingo is helping the pastime to spread across South America

    Photo: Pixabay

    Prior to the turn of the millennium, bingo wasn’t a major pastime across South America. You could find games in certain places, but it certainly wasn’t mainstream. While the game blew up in the USA and the UK, it never really spread around this continent in the same way.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 20:59 UTC

    Nicaraguan clergymen said to have been freed and deported

    The report is yet to be confirmed by Ortega's government

    Nicaraguan authorities released from prison and deported Catholic Bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro Mora, 13 priests, and three seminarians, it was reported Sunday in Managua. Álvarez was sentenced in February 2023 to 26 years and 4 months in prison for treason.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 20:34 UTC

    Arévalo sworn in as President of Guatemala at last

    King Felipe VI and President Boric had to leave before Arévalo was effectively sworn in due to the 10-hour delay

    Although some ten hours later than scheduled, Bernardo Arévalo de León was eventually sworn in early Monday as Guatemala's new president for the period 2024-2028. After his inauguration, he was to offer his first speech as constitutional head of state. Before Arévalo's turn, 160 deputies took their oaths of office, thus extending the ceremony in time beyond projections.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 16:55 UTC

    Violent confrontation leaves five dead and five injured in Argentina

    The authorities will rely on these recordings to identify and prosecute those responsible for the attack.

    A brutal clash erupted on Sunday afternoon within an occupied area in the Buenos Aires town of González Catán, La Matanza, resulting in a massacre: five dead and five injured, two of them critically.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei off to Davos, has meeting arranged with IMF's Georgieva

    Milei is expected to discuss with Georgieva the verbal agreement reached last week between Argentina and the IMF

    Argentine President Javier Milei is departing Monday to Davos, Switzerland, on regular airline flights with stopovers in Frankfurt and Zurich to participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to Casa Rosada sources quoted by local media in Buenos Aires, he is also to have a one-on-one meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    ITA Airways flight makes emergency landing in Montevideo due to passenger's death

    The flight crew called for any medical professionals among the passengers, and appropriate resuscitation measures were taken. Unfortunately, the passenger could not be revived

    An ITA Airways flight traveling from Rome to Buenos Aires had to make an emergency landing at Carrasco Airport in Montevideo this morning following the death of a passenger, according to airport sources.

  • Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:26 UTC

    Paraguay cleared to ship beef on the bone to Israel

    Sheep meat may too be exported soon to Israel, it was explained

    Paraguay has been authorized by Israel's Veterinary and Animal Health Service (IVSAH) to sell beef on the bone to that country, the National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa) announced Sunday in Asunción. Uruguay Israel's approval on Jan. 8.