MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 14th 2026
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Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:34 UTC
Peru rehearses its response to a magnitude 8.8 quake off Lima and Callao
Peru held the year's second national multi-hazard drill on Friday, an exercise testing evacuation protocols and the response capacity of the public and the authorities to a possible magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off the central coast of Lima and Callao.
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Friday, August 14th 2026 - 22:20 UTC
Peña says the Milei-Lula crisis has not affected how Mercosur functions
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña said on Friday that the differences between his Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had no consequences for Mercosur, despite the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
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Friday, August 14th 2026 - 21:43 UTC
The Falklands Legislative Assembly marks 434 years since the first recorded sighting
The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly marked Falklands Day on Friday, the anniversary of the first recorded sighting of the archipelago, on August 14, 1592. The day was marked by raising the Falkland Islands flag and the Union flag side by side on Victory Green, in Stanley.
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Friday, August 14th 2026 - 10:43 UTC
A year from the presidential vote, Argentina's parties begin to define alliances
With little more than a year to go before Argentina's presidential elections of October 2027, the governing party and the main opposition force began this week to realign their positions. La Libertad Avanza, the party of President Javier Milei, resumed talks with former president Mauricio Macri's PRO, while the various currents of Peronism agreed a truce aimed at blocking the electoral reform the government is promoting.
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Friday, August 14th 2026 - 08:40 UTC
Argentina restricts access to an Andean plain after damage caused by a pickup truck
Authorities in the Argentine province of San Juan will keep access to Pampa del Leoncito restricted until the end of the month, after a vehicle drove across the white clay plain, located at 1,500 meters above sea level at the foot of the Andes, despite a ban on traffic, leaving ruts up to 25 centimeters deep.
