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Montevideo, December 4th 2024 - 18:45 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

    Milei arrives in Rio Gallegos enroute to Antarctica

    Milei is to tour the Marambio and Esperanza bases, weather permitting

    Argentine President Javier Milei landed at around 8.30 pm Friday in Río Gallegos to stay the night before flying on to the Marambio Base in Antarctica. Traveling with the head of state were Ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Affairs), Guillermo Francos (Interior), and Luis Petri (Defense) as well as Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, among other officials making up the entourage of 23.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Jewish leader in Buenos Aires sparks controversy regarding Gaza

    Pikholtz is a former president of the Argentine Zionist Organization

    Contradicting reports in Buenos Aires Friday concurred that Sergio Pikholtz was no longer Vice President of the Delegation of Argentine-Israeli Associations (DAIA) after posting on social media that there were “no innocents in Gaza.”

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    US farmers and beef lobbies want to stop the import of fresh meat from Paraguay

    Senators Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, and Jon Tester, D-Montana, announced they would file a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the decision

    A wide ranging alliance of US government officials, cattle farmers and beef organizations gathered to strongly oppose the purchase and import of fresh beef from Paraguay, but a final ruling from the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service decided in favor of the Mercosur country member. The decision became effective last December 14 and opens the doors to the Paraguayan produce.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    United Kingdom launches search to find the artist of a striking Falklands painting

    The artwork shows a graphic scene from the Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War. (MOD Crown Copyright)

    A search has been launched by the DIO for the artist of a striking painting that depicts the brutal reality of the Falklands War. The picture was found in a former classroom at HMS Raleigh by a staff member who works for the Defence Infrastructure Organization (DIO). With the classroom not currently in use, the painting had been all but forgotten about.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Legendary “Old Wolf” Zagallo dies aged 92

    The Old Wolf was the first person to win a World Cup title both as a player and a coachq

    Football legend Mario Jorge Lobo Zagallo, who was in one way or another linked to 4 of Brazil's 5 World Cup titles, passed away Saturday in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 92, it was announced on the Old Wolf's (Velho Lobo) Instagram profile.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Argentina resumes joint border controls on river travel from Uruguay

    These services “that had been interrupted during the pandemic” have been resumed

    Argentine officers resumed operating at Uruguayan ports to run joint border crossing points “to optimize the experience of travelers of the different river passenger transportation companies and to strengthen the collaboration between both countries,” the National Direction of Migration explained through the Interior Ministry to which it belongs.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

    FPSO Sepetiba begins production at Petrobras’ third largest oil field off Brazil

    The Mero field on the Libra block is located some 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio; FPSO Sepetiba has been chartered by Petrobras on a 22.5-year lease

    Oil and gas giant Petrobras has started production from a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel at its giant Mero oil field in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The third production unit at the field, out of a total of five, since two are yet to be installed.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:21 UTC

    Brasilia rioters wanted to kill De Moraes, judge says

    De Moraes was to be assassinated in the most barbaric ways possible

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes said the Jan. 8 rioters who seized the buildings of all three branches of government, wanted to hang him in the process. Those financing the uprising planned to convince the army to join a coup after the invasion of Congress, case rapporteur De Moraes explained in an interview with O Globo.

  • Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Another school shooting in US leaves two students dead, including the perpetrator

    Dylan Butler was believed to be acting alone

    A 17-year-old gunman killed one person and wounded five others before taking his own life in yet another school shooting spree in the United States, this time in Iowa. The perpetrator was a student at the Perry High School in the town of Perry in Dallas County, it was also reported. The shooting occurred on the first day of classes following winter break. Iowa has a long history of school shootings, dating back to 1984.

  • 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.