Investments

• Thursday, September 10th 2026 - 12:00 UTC

  Iceland Foods to open first UK high street store in the Falklands in December

  

  British frozen food chain Iceland Foods announced Thursday that it has completed a deal to open a store in Stanley, the capital of the Falklands, in what the company describes as the first UK high street retail brand to establish itself in the archipelago.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2026 - 20:28 UTC

  Anthropic researcher resigns, warning that AI “could kill us all” before the decade ends

  

  Jacob Coxon, a model pretraining researcher at Anthropic, announced his resignation on Tuesday, accusing the company and OpenAI, where he also worked, of “not acting responsibly” and of “gambling with our lives” in the race to build artificial intelligence systems capable of improving themselves.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2026 - 04:29 UTC

  Jaguar-Land Rover will cut 4.000 jobs to compete with Chinese electric carmakers

  

  Jaguar Land Rover announced on Monday it will cut 4,000 jobs across its global workforce as it tries to cut costs and compete with Chinese electric carmakers. Britain’s biggest automaker said the job cuts will take place over the next two years as it targets 1.7 billion pounds (US$2.3 billion) in savings to make it more competitive as the industry transitions to electrification.

• Monday, September 7th 2026 - 19:20 UTC

  A port dispute in Montevideo blocks a second ferry operator on the Buenos Aires route

  

  Uruguayan ferry company Colonia Express obtained authorisation from the Ministry of Transport and Public Works at the end of July to operate the passenger and vehicle route between Montevideo and Buenos Aires, but cannot begin the service because the only ramp at the Montevideo port suitable for unloading cars belongs to Buquebus, the company that currently runs the crossing alone.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 17:37 UTC

  Venezuela's main airport reopens with temporary modules two months after the earthquake

  

  Simón Bolívar international airport, located in Maiquetía and Venezuela's principal air gateway, resumed domestic and international operations on Tuesday, two months after the double earthquake of June 24 destroyed its facilities.

• Monday, August 31st 2026 - 08:40 UTC

  British Embassy in Santiago contributes to advance offshore wind development in Chile

  

  The British Embassy in Santiago earlier this month organized an event which brought together government authorities, industry representatives and academia to discuss key findings of the reports and explore next steps for the development of offshore wind development in Chile.

• Friday, August 28th 2026 - 12:48 UTC

  Falklands: Chilean shipping line drives new link and promotes Expo with Islands and Punta Arenas products

  

  The formalization of a regular commercial maritime link between the Falklands and Chile, together with the promotion of an Expo of Islands and Chilean products in Punta Arenas, are being pushed with considerable enthusiasm by the Chilean shipping company Easter Island Naviera (EIN), which connects Easter Island with mainland Chile.

• Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:13 UTC

  A judge demands urgent reports from Argentina's government on the fate of road funds

  

  Federal judge Ernesto Kreplak, sitting in La Plata, this week admitted a class action and requested urgent reports from the Ministry of Economy, the National Roads Directorate and Banco Nación on the use of resources from the Integrated Road System (SisVial), a trust fund financed by the tax on liquid fuels whose legal purpose is the construction and maintenance of national highways.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:50 UTC

  A critical report says Argentina's investment regime concentrated capital in mining and oil

  

  Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), created in 2024, “consolidated a strongly extractive profile and did not stimulate new sectors,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the RIGI Observatory, a coalition of civil society organisations and academic centres that examines the scheme from a critical standpoint.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

  American Airlines resumes its seasonal Montevideo-Miami route in December

  

  American Airlines will restart its seasonal service between Carrasco International Airport and Miami International Airport on December 3, once again becoming the only carrier offering nonstop flights between Uruguay and the United States during the peak summer season.