Stories for 2024

Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:49 UTC
Brazil's STF launches corruption probe against Transparency International

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice António Dias Toffoli has launched a corruption probe against the Non-Government Organization (NGO) Transparency International after it sided with Deltan Dallagnol to create a foundation with the money from fines paid by companies that admitted to bribes to win contracts with the state-run oil company Petrobras.
Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:44 UTC
Chile: The cause of Piñera's death disclosed

Chilean Prosecutor Tatiana Esquivel said Wednesday that former two-time President Sebastián Piñera died of asphyxia by submersion, according to the post-mortem performed by Valdivia's Legal Medical team.
Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:39 UTC
Milei: “Nazism today is disguised as Hamas”

On the second day of his visit to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei said Wednesday that “Nazism today is disguised as Hamas.” On making these remarks from the local Holocaust Museum, the South American leader insisted that the terrorist group needed to free the hostages taken during the Oct. 7 raids.
Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 10:28 UTC
Bolivian economy minister says Fitch's downgrading was biased

Economy Minister Marcelo Montenegro said the latest grading given to Bolivia by Fitch Ratings entailed a “biased vision” according to which the country's total public debt, internal and external, represented 71.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) when it actually amounted to 46%.
Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 05:17 UTC
HMS Protector removes waste from Brabant Island next to Antarctica Peninsula

Royal Navy sailors have helped preserve the natural beauty of Antarctica by removing three tons of waste from an island. Ice patrol HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island – on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula – for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s.
Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:54 UTC
Chile: Boric delivers heartfelt message after Piñera's passing

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Tuesday decreed three days of mourning for the death of his predecessor Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014 and 2018-2022) in a helicopter crash. He also praised the Conservative leader for his crisis management skills after the 2010 earthquake and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Boric also announced that the two-time President Piñera would receive full honors and “a state funeral.”
Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:50 UTC
Parliamentarian setback for Milei's Omnibus Law bill

Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Tuesday suffered a major blow in Congress when its workhorse Omnibus Law bill was sent back to further treatment by the various Lower House committees, thus annulling last Friday's broad approval.
Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:48 UTC
Milei cries at Wailing Wall in Israel

Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday landed in Tel Aviv on an ElAl flight and cried at the Wailing Wall together with his rabbi friend Axel Wahnish, who will be the South American country's next ambassador. During his first day in Israel, Milei met with President Isaac Herzog and insisted on his promise to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:41 UTC
“Madman” Bolsonaro “should have never become President”, says Lula

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro that “an ignorant guy like” Jair Bolsonaro should have never reached the Planalto Palace. During a speech on Tuesday in Belford Roxo, Lula also called his predecessor a fool and a bastard, among other epithets.
Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:20 UTC
US not seeking to set up a base in Uruguay, says US Southern Command Chief

US Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson Tuesday praised Uruguay's democratic tradition and insisted her country was not seeking to set up a military base, thus denying claims from the labor grouping Pit-Cnt earlier this week.