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Saturday, November 14th 2026 - 01:01 UTC
Un exbrigadista italiano se descuelga de un quinto piso en Buenos Aires para evitar su extradición

Leonardo Bertulazzi, a 74-year-old former member of Italy’s Red Brigades, escaped from house arrest in Buenos Aires on Tuesday by abseiling with a rope and harness from a fifth floor, after leaving his electronic ankle tag on a homemade device that simulated a human leg, to avoid imminent extradition to Italy. Argentine police on Friday arrested a Uruguayan man and a Salvadoran woman, identified as suspected accomplices, as they were about to cross into Uruguay.
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Friday, November 13th 2026 - 17:06 UTC
Chile tells Argentina “countries do not ask permission” for its ship bound for the Falklands

Chile’s Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna has ruled out asking Argentina for authorisation for the voyage of the Chilean vessel Danstar, which plans to reopen the commercial route between Punta Arenas and the Falklands in December, invoking the right of innocent passage recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. “Countries do not ask permission,” he said, according to Argentina’s La Nación.
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Friday, November 13th 2026 - 02:58 UTC
Leo XIV to 52,000 young people in Lima: “Be passionate about everything worthwhile”

Pope Leo XIV met some 52,000 young people at Lima’s National Stadium on Thursday, according to El País, in the last event of his stay in the Peruvian capital before travelling to Chiclayo, the diocese he led as bishop. “Someone told me that Peru needs hope. You are the sign of hope,” he told them, to applause.
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Thursday, November 12th 2026 - 22:01 UTC
British veteran returns to an Argentine veteran the helmet he took in 1982

A former Royal Marine has travelled to Argentina to return to an Argentine veteran the helmet he took during the Battle of Mount Harriet in the 1982 Falklands War, in a reunion filmed for a documentary, BBC Sussex reported.
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Thursday, November 12th 2026 - 18:02 UTC
Lula to visit Madrid on Monday to meet Sánchez, two weeks before Spain’s election

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will visit Madrid on Monday, November 16, to meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, less than two weeks before the snap general election on November 29, in which Sánchez is seeking re-election. It will be Lula’s first visit to Spain since he won Brazil’s election on October 25.
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Thursday, November 12th 2026 - 11:20 UTC
Paraguay’s banking superintendent arrested in the Ueno Bank investigation

Paraguay’s Superintendent of Banks, Holger Insfrán, was arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation into the collapse of Ueno Bank, which has already led to the pre-trial detention of former President Santiago Peña and former Central Bank president Carlos Carvallo, according to prosecution sources cited by the EFE news agency. The charges against him have not been disclosed.
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Thursday, November 12th 2026 - 10:59 UTC
Leo XIV arrives in Peru, his “homeland”, defending international law and reconciliation

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lima on Wednesday, the final stage of his South American tour, and in his first speech in Peru, the country where he lived for some twenty years and whose nationality he holds, called for diplomacy that “respects international law” in the face of wars and for the country’s past events “to be dealt with justice and sensitivity”.
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Thursday, November 12th 2026 - 10:58 UTC
Law of the sea tribunal to rule on November 28 on Argentina’s bid to halt Sea Lion

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will announce on Saturday, November 28, its decision on Argentina’s request for provisional measures to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, after two days of hearings concluded in Hamburg on Wednesday. Argentina presented final requests that were more specific than its initial ones, and the United Kingdom asked the tribunal to reject them all.
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Wednesday, November 11th 2026 - 19:49 UTC
Milei in tears as he bids farewell to Leo XIV at Ezeiza, closing the Pope’s Argentina visit

President Javier Milei was moved to tears during Pope Leo XIV’s farewell at Ezeiza airport, at the end of a four-day visit, the first by a pontiff to Argentina in 39 years. The Pope left for Peru, the second leg of his South American tour, after celebrating his last Mass at the Basilica of Luján.
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Wednesday, November 11th 2026 - 11:12 UTC
Prosecutors open the vault at Peña’s house and find it empty; two safes found at Ueno Bank

Paraguayan prosecutors on Tuesday opened the armoured vault hidden in former President Santiago Peña’s summer house in San Bernardino, two days after finding it, and found it empty. In a second raid, at Ueno Bank’s headquarters, they found two more hidden safes, one containing about US$14,000 in cash.
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