Stories for 2024

Friday, January 12th 2024 - 11:21 UTC
Drug trafficking scandal: How cocaine made it from Uruguay to Belgium undetected?

A shipment of 22,320 units of Portezuelo brand budines and alfajores (La Plata river sweets), along with 1,122 bottles of vermouth, originating from Uruguay and bound for Belgium, was found to contain 2.16 tons of cocaine. The discovery was made by Belgian Customs on December 28, sparking an investigation into the oversight during its transit through the Uruguayan port.
Friday, January 12th 2024 - 11:11 UTC
Argentina: Patagonian League relaunched to protect local interests from national gov't

Despite stemming from different political forces, the governors of Argentina's Patagonian provinces Thursday issued a joint statement condemning President Javier Milei's bold approach to the country's economic crisis, particularly his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) and the so-called Omnibus Law bill currently in Congress.
Friday, January 12th 2024 - 10:34 UTC
CPI goes up 25.5% in December in Argentina

Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) Thursday said the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December 2023 went up by 25.5% for an interannual total of 211.4%, it was reported in Buenos Aires.
Friday, January 12th 2024 - 10:31 UTC
Ecuador: Life slowly getting back to normal

Ecuadorean authorities Thursday confirmed drug-trafficking gangs continued to have a total of 178 hostages in prisons nationwide while the number of casualties after four days of internal turmoil was updated to 16 as the outlaws retaliated following law enforcement forces operations. In this scenario, daily life is gradually getting back to normal.
Friday, January 12th 2024 - 10:29 UTC
Second victim dies of equine encephalitis in Argentina

Health authorities in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires Thursday confirmed the first death due to Western equine encephalitis in the territory which was also the second nationwide. The victim was a 74-year-old woman with comorbidities from a semi-rural area. All 10 cases in the province -in General Viamonte, Junín, Leandro N. Alem, Arrecifes, Baradero, La Plata, Ramallo, Campana, and Bragado- required hospitalization, with only four of them discharged so far.
Friday, January 12th 2024 - 10:25 UTC
Paraguayan experts call for action against Covid-19

Paraguay's Director General of Health Surveillance, Águeda Cabello, this week echoed a recommendation by the country's leading physicians to wear face masks in healthcare facilities as the number of Covid-19 cases is reported to be on the rise.
Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 17:23 UTC
Falklands' Legislative Assembly honors Margaret Thatcher

The Chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly MLA John Birmingham attended the Margaret Thatcher Memorial in Stanley on Wednesday to pay respects to the former Prime Minister, laying a bouquet at the memorial.
Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 17:22 UTC
Punta del Este cruise season launched

This year's cruise season was launched this week at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este during a ceremony presided over by Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera, who pointed out that some of the 232 scheduled to arrive between October 2023 and April 2024, 74 would call there.
Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 17:21 UTC
Falklands: military vehicle road traffic accident at Mount Pleasant Peak

The Falkland Islands government is reporting that there has been a road traffic accident at Mount Pleasant Peak involving a military vehicle. The road is closed from the first gate on the track. Casualties have been taken to King Edward Memorial Hospital in Stanley and MPC Medical Centre.
Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 17:20 UTC
Former STF Chief Justice to become Brazil's new Security and Justice Minister

As Security and Justice Minister Flávio Dino is to leave his job to become a judge on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) next month, former STF Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski was announced as his successor after both of them met Wednesday with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Alvorada Palace.