International

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Presidents of Colombia, Ukraine hold phone talk

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez Saturday held a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian colleague Volodimir Zelensky. Duque offered Colombia's assistance to the European leader, given the South American country's long history of handling refugee crises, it was reported.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2022 - 11:58 UTC

  Argentine President praises fortitude of 1982 war veterans

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Saturday delivered the main speech during the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the Puerto Argentino / Port Stanley landing which triggered the South Atlantic armed conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2022 - 11:41 UTC

  Malvinas meant the end of the “military party” - Argentine VP stresses

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa presided over Congress' ceremony Saturday marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands / Malvinas war.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  “The saddest page of history between Argentina and Britain”, Ambassador Hayes

  

  Kirsty Hayes, current British ambassador in Argentina wrote a column, published in Buenos Aires main daily, La Nacion pointing out that April 2nd was the beginning of the saddest page of the wide history of relations between Argentines and British. A painful date that brings sad memories to many families and sensitizes us all who some way or another work to build bridges between our nations, Ambassador Hayes begins her column.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina focused on ties with US

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Martín Guzmán met Friday with US Ambassador Marc Stanley at the Treasury Palace in Buenos Aires to discuss the bilateral agenda regarding cooperation between the two countries.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Uruguayan exports grow 28% in March of 2022

  

  Uruguay's exports rose 28% in March of 2022 when compared to the same month last year, according to the Uruguay XXI report released Friday in Montevideo, which took into account figures from duty-free trade zones. Beef was once again the star product.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  IMF chief warns on consequences of the Russia/Ukraine conflict for poorer countries

  

  IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva fears that the current situation with the Russia/Ukraine conflict could lead to an explosive situation in many of the poor countries with inflated prices, less jobs and overwhelming debts and called for greater global cooperation.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Punta Arenas satisfied with 2021/22 cruise season, “we successfully managed to re launch activities”

  

  Next Tuesday a cruise vessel will be calling at Puerto Williams in Chile officially marking the end of the 2021/22 cruise season in that country, which local authorities from Punta Arenas consider very satisfactory, given the activity generated since November 2021, after 18 months of pandemic restrictions.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazilian study in The Lancet recommends more than one dose of covid-19 vax

  

  COVID-19 vaccines used in Brazil are effective to achieve protection from SARS-Cov-2 even for people who have previously had the disease, according to a study published this week in The Lancet by scientists from the Vigivac project at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).

• Friday, April 1st 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Falklands' war vivid frontline sketches by Linda Kitson who marched alongside the troops

  

  The National Memorial Arboretum, in Staffordshire, has opened a new free exhibition featuring frontline sketches of the Falklands War by Linda Kitson who was appointed as the official war artist by the Imperial War Museum.