Politics

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 22:26 UTC

  Chile lodges criminal complaint against Mapuche Resistance Group

  

  Following a video release in which a group of hooded and heavily armed individuals calling themselves the Mapuche Territory Resistance, who occupied by force the administration offices of a Chilean National Park, the government o President Sebastian Piñera lodged a criminal complaint against them plus demanding their eviction.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 22:17 UTC

  UN recognizes that a clean, healthy, sustainable environment is a human right

  

  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called on States to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to the right to a healthy environment, following a UN Human Rights Council’s landmark decision.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 22:03 UTC

  Beef produceres agree with Argentine gov't to keep popular cuts at affordable prices

  

  The administration of Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday reached an agreement with meat producers to keep the retail price of “popular cuts” unchanged.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Agreement reached between Argentina, Brazil to cut down common external tariffs by 10%

  

  The Governments of Argentina and Brazil Friday agreed to cut down the common external tariffs (CET) by 10% “in a very wide universe of products” after months of tensions among members of Mercosur on the issue.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Russia's Ambassador to Buenos Aires seeks to sell fighter jets

  

  Russia's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Dmitri Feoktiskov met with Defense Minister Jorge Taiana to convey yet again his country's interest in selling military equipment to the South American country, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Journalists advocate of freedom of the press awarded 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Russia's Dmitry Muratov.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Uruguay will trade with the world, President Lacalle announces

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday told the America Business Forum in Punta del Este that his country was moving forward in trading with the world because it is what needs to be done.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 04:55 UTC

  Neither Trump nor Biden are genocidal for how they handled the COVID-19 crisis, Brazil's President says

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said his country had suffered relatively little going through the COVID-19 pandemic and wondered “why don't they call [US President Joseph] Biden genocidal?”

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 04:35 UTC

  Argentina: Relatives of AMIA bombing victims to appeal court ruling dismissing charges against CFK

  

  Relatives of the victims of the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Social Welfare Association of Argentina (AMIA) Friday announced they would appeal a court ruling issued Thursday in which charges against former President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) were dismissed.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 04:12 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego extreme south vertex to become the Mitre Peninsula Protected Area

  

  Argentina Tierra del Fuego province lawmakers from all parties have agreed to resurface a project to create the Mitre Peninsula Nature Protected Area, an idea born over thirty years ago and which covers the extreme end landmass of Tierra del Fuego and the States Island.