Stories for 2024

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.”
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:54 UTC
Rosario people switching housing preferences to meet security demands

Realtors in the Argentine city of Rosario -the hometown of Lionel Messi and many other celebrities in the country- reported that local clients are switching to apartments from houses as they felt more secure given the mounting drug gang violence. Those who can afford it also prefer gated communities such as country club residences.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:50 UTC
Uruguayan fishing said to be “on the brink of collapse”

Uruguayan fishing industry leaders demanded concrete responses from President Luis Lacalle Pou after the activity fell in a stoppage from here it needs to recover. “It is more profitable to bring fish from Argentina,” one of the leaders argued as the sector was said to be “on the verge of collapse.” The crisis worsened in recent weeks as costs keep spiraling.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:39 UTC
Argentine woman arrested after taking her dog to be slaughtered

A 55-year-old woman in the Argentine city of La Plata, capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, was arrested after showing up at her Villa Elvira neighborhood nearest butchers' to have her Golden Retriever pet dog slaughtered, it was reported Sunday. Store workers alerted the police and the animal was left in the care of a shelter. According to local media, the potential client also asked how much the service would cost her.
Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:35 UTC
Peruvian President targeted in corruption scandal over pricy watches

President Dina Boluarte's home in the Lima district of Surquillo was raided late Friday by the Police who went on to the Executive Branch's headquarters in the early hours of Saturday to carry out a search-and-size warrant granted by a Supreme Court magistrate to Attorney General Juan Villena.
Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:33 UTC
Datafloha: About 55% of Brazilians think Bolsonaro tried to stage a coup d'état

According to a Datafolha survey released Friday by Folha de S.Paulo, 55% of Brazilians believe former President Jair Bolsonaro wanted to stage a coup d'état whereas 39% of those interviewed thought the retired Army captain never had such intentions. In addition, 7% of respondents were unable to answer that question.
Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:24 UTC
No diplomatic rift between Argentina and Mexico despite verbal clash between Milei and AMLO

Foreign Ministries Diana Mondino of Argentina and Alicia Bárcena of Mexico held a telephone conversation Friday during which they concurred that the recent exchange of epithets between Presidents Javier Milei and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) did not jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations, which they agreed to label as “solid.” Bárcena and Mondino thus made it clear that neither nation intended to escalate the dispute.