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Stories for 2024

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:27 UTC

    Guyana oil output breaking all oil exploration and production records

    Since January 2024, oil companies offshore Guyana are pumping over 600,000 barrels per day, with developments, completed at a scorching pace

    The impoverished South American country of Guyana is emerging as a major international oil producer and exporter. The former British colony is expected to become not only South America’s top oil producer but a key driver of world petroleum supply growth. The country has also become one of the fastest growing economies in the region, according to the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:15 UTC

    Argentina is Italy's point of reference in Latin America

    Meloni and Milei are like-minded leaders with joint plans for the near future

    Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said during his trip to Buenos Aires where she had dinner Tuesday with President Javier Milei and met again one-on-one at Casa Rosada on Wednesday that “Argentina is our point of reference in Latin America.”

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:03 UTC

    Chubut court releases Punta Tombo Massacre perpetrator on parole

    In the end, La Regina will not go to jail

    Chubut agribusinessman Ricardo La Regina was handed down a three-year sentence by a three-judge court in the city of Rawson for the 2021 killing of a colony of Magellanic penguins in the Punta Tombo reservation.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 23:11 UTC

    Falklands, Three Peaks Challenge 12 mile competition 7 December

    The Falkland Islands 3 Peaks Challenge is an annual 12-mile (20km) endurance race, held in the hills due West of the capital Stanley, scheduled for Saturday 7 December.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 18:52 UTC

    Blinken recognizes González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

    Blinken is a confessed enemy of Venezuela, the Chavista Foreign Minister Gil said

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) given María Corina Machado's disenfranchisement, sought asylum in September in Spain after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:44 UTC

    Milei meets with IMF Manager in Rio

    Milei hopes his ties with Donald Trump will lead Georgieva's agency to authorize a US$ 10 billion disbursement

    Argentine President Javier Milei met Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro on the sidelines of the G20 Summit with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to negotiate a new disbursement from the credit agency to boost the South American country's coffers. Also participating in the meeting were Ministers Gerardo Werthein (Foreign Affairs) and Luis Toto Caputo (Economy), among other officials

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Lula urges developed countries to up their climate contributions

    “These trillions exist, but they are being wasted on armaments, while the planet is in agony,” Lula argued

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva insisted Tuesday that G20 developed countries should bring forward by up to ten years the climate neutrality targets currently set for 2050, Agencia Brasil reported. He made those remarks during his appearance at the Group's Summit in Rio de Janeiro. “To the developed members of the G20, I propose that you bring forward your climate neutrality targets from 2050 to 2040 or even 2045,” Lula stressed during a panel on sustainable development and energy transition.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    Fuel supply getting back to normal in Bolivia

    “The lines we had for gasoline have progressively diminished,” Hurtado said

    Bolivia's State-run oil company YPFB announced Tuesday that it had restored fuel shipments to the levels before the 24-day road blockade by former President Evo Morales followers, which disrupted supply and caused a nationwide crisis. YPFB explained that 7 million liters of gasoline and the same amount of diesel were distributed, thus ending the long queues at petrol stations that had become a common sight in recent weeks.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:33 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve placed under pre-trial detention

    At the end of the day, Monsalve was transferred to the Rancagua prison

    Former Chilean Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve was placed under pre-trial detention Tuesday and sent to the Rancagua prison under rape charges following the hearing which had been adjourned from Friday.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 21:15 UTC

    Paraguayan President says he is okay after Monday's hospitalization

    Peña shifted the spotlight from his health crisis onto sporting events

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Tuesday shared a video message on social media saying he had fully recovered from Monday's health crisis that had him hospitalized while attending the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.