Latin America

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  Lufthansa lands in Falklands with scientists; returns to Germany on Wednesday

  

  Lufthansa’s longest flight ever has landed in the Falkland Islands. The aircraft departed Hamburg at 21:23 on Sunday, landing at Mount Pleasant Complex at 09:00. The flight, which is also the longest flight to have departed Hamburg, clocked in at 15 hours and 36 minutes.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Ecuador president's plane makes emergency landing in Washington before meeting with IMF chief and Biden officials

  

  The aircraft carrying Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno, the First Lady, and a delegation of top officials was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday in Washington at the end of an official visit, the country's communications ministry announced.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:24 UTC

  Bolivia will be among the first to benefit from WHO's Covax vaccine program

  

  The United Nations mission in Bolivia celebrated the fact that this country will be one of the first to receive vaccines from the multilateral Covax system, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to guarantee access to these drugs in the world's poorest countries.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Canada and Uruguay, the Americas' countries with the less corruption perception

  

  Transparency International has released its 2020 Corruption Perception Index, which is not very generous with Latin American countries, including Mercosur members Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, with Uruguay the great exception and best-ranked in the Americas behind Canada.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Falklands: MPC access limited to essential travel because of Covid-19 positive case

  

  The Falkland Islands Government confirmed on Thursday that a military medic involved in quarantine surveillance swabbing has tested positive for Covid-19 as a result of displaying symptoms.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Hess Exploration investing heavily in its Guyana oil offshore operations

  

  The Hess Exploration company is betting strongly in the opportunities of its Guyana operations. With a 30% interest in the Stabroek Block, it has allotted more than 80% of its capital and exploratory budget of US$1.9 billion for 2021 to its offshore blocks.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Over a million people have died from Covid-19 in the Americas

  

  More than one million people have died from COVID-19 in North and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported. Last week two million more cases were reported in the Americas, with the United States the main driver of the outbreak.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Colombian defense minister and respected politician dies of Covid-19

  

  Colombia's defense minister has died in hospital after contracting coronavirus, the government announced. Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, was taken to hospital with Covid-19 earlier this month and had developed viral pneumonia.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentina and Chile “indissolubly twinned countries”, underlines president Fernandez

  

  Argentina and Chile are “indissolubly twinned countries”, said Argentine president Alberto Fernandez during the ceremony at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago where, next to his peer Sebastián Piñera, and members of their cabinets, they signed several accords and a joint declaration.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 11:22 UTC

  State of the art USCG Stone docks in Montevideo heading for the South Atlantic

  

  One of the US Coast Guard newest vessels docked in Montevideo early Monday looking for supplies and fuel, but given the strict sanitary isolation measures no member of the crew will be disembarking or anybody visiting the vessel.