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Montevideo, September 7th 2024 - 23:48 UTC

Stories for 2024

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 09:25 UTC

    Argos Georgia tragedy: Survivors in Falklands, Spain sending aircraft, official mourning in Vigo

    The Spanish air force flying to MPA for the Spanish mariners live and dead

    The tragedy of the longliner Argos Georgia plus the loss and disappearance of thirteen mariners, and the survival of fourteen, is headline news in Galicia with the city of Vigo declaring a day of mourning and the Spanish foreign minister announcing that an Air Force aircraft will be flying Friday to the Falkland Islands to pick up Spanish crew members.

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 09:17 UTC

    First two Oropuche fever casualties reported in Brazil

    Oropouche had never before been found to be lethal

    Brazilian health authorities Thursday reported the first two Oropouche fever deaths in the country and the world. The victims were two women from Bahia, aged under 30, with no comorbidities, it was also explained. The malady is said to cause symptoms similar to those of severe dengue fever.

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Washington gives Indian refiners the nod to buy Venezuelan crude

    Indian refiners were purchasing Venezuelan crude through intermediaries until last month

    Major refiners Reliance Industries of India announced it would soon be purchasing crude from Venezuela once again after getting the nod from Washington DC, which would represent an easing of the current sanctions against the South American country.

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    New UK government visit to South America: joins fight against hunger and poverty

    Minister Dodds confirmed UK’s intention to join the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, an initiative created by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva.

    UK’s Minister for International Development Anneliese Dodds is in Rio de Janeiro representing the UK at the G20 Development Ministers’ Meeting – on the first visit by a member of the new government to South America. 

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

    Argos Georgia tragedy: Montevideo port fishing vessels turn sirens on to remember fallen mariners

    The once proud and daring state-of-the-art Argos Georgia at Montevideo port

    At mid morning Thursday, fishing vessels in the port of Montevideo turned their sirens on for a few minutes to the memory of the lost mariners from longliner Argos Georgia, believed to be almost unsinkable given its sturdy complexion and modern technology, which sunk in the middle of a dramatic storm in the deep south Atlantic.

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 07:23 UTC

    Falklands new port facility, urgent meeting next August first

    The current FIPASS, which has become obsolete as a terminal

    Following the marine-side tender for the replacement of the Falkland Islands port facility, FIPASS, Harland and Wolff were identified as the preferred bidder. Pre-contract negotiations commenced in order to ensure commercial criteria were met and in order to then seek ExCo approval to proceed to necessarily contract to deliver.

  • Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 20:56 UTC

    Venezuela: Foreign press accused of dirty campaign to cry “foul”

    Amoroso is the official entrusted with announcing the elections' outcome

    While Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) Chairman Elvis Amoroso denounced that Western media outlets were behind a campaign seeking to taint next Sunday's presidential elections, Argentine reporter Jorge Pizarro of Buenos Aires' Radio Rivadavia was denied access into the country upon landing at Caracas' Simón Bolívar International Airport, from where he was deported via Panama after over six hours in detention.

  • Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 20:18 UTC

    Lula insists world hunger is a political choice

    “Spending on armaments rose 7% last year,” Lula noted while funding against world famine is nowhere near

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted during a G20 event in Rio de Janeiro that fighting hunger was a political choice, Agencia Brasil reported. The South American leader also pledged to steer his country out of that plight during his ongoing term.

  • Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 19:50 UTC

    Argentine Economy Minister meets with IMF Chief in Rio

    Caputo was full of praise for Georgieva as he almost desperately needs fresh IMF funding

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo met Thursday in Rio de Janeiro with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who said the encounter had been “constructive.”

  • Thursday, July 25th 2024 - 11:19 UTC

    Chilean fruit exports grow 9% in first semester of 2024

    “The export of services from Chile was already a record last year, and this year is heading for a new all-time high,” Fernández Ruiz pointed out

    Chile's agricultural sales abroad in the first semester of 2024 amounted to over US$ 7 billion, almost 9% more than in the same period of 2023 thanks in part to a public-private cooperation strategy promoted by the Undersecretariat of International Economic Relations and ProChile, the Ministry's Department in charge of offering and promoting national products and services to the world.