Politics

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 09:33 UTC

  Icebreaker ARA Irízar sets sail on Antarctic Campaign

  

  The Argentine Navy's icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar set sail from Buenos Aires this week to do her part in the 2023/2024 Antarctic Summer Campaign after a ceremony presided over by Defense Minister Luis Petri.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 07:17 UTC

  BFSAI commander visits Radar Units in Falklands Mount Kent, Mount Alice and Byron Heights

  

  The Commander of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands stationed at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands, Brigadier Dan Duff has done the round of the troops under his command as part of the Christmas message.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 06:33 UTC

  Minister Rutley's second visit to the Falklands in a month: big changes in South Atlantic fisheries policies?

  

  Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Caribbean, and Overseas Territories David Rutley has been to the Falkland Islands again this week, the second visit in a month, and in the meantime this did not prevent him from on December 10, to represent the British government in Buenos Aires for the taking office ceremony of Argentine extreme liberal president, Javier Milei.

• Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentine unions call for nationwide strike on Jan. 24

  

  Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) Thursday called for a nationwide strike next Jan. 24 to protest against President Javier Milei's sweeping emergency decree (DNU) deregulating most aspects of the South American country's economy in addition to the bill sent Wednesday to Congress to deepen those reforms.

• Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  When FIC tried to buy Peninsula Valdes and land in Tierra del Fuego

  

  The history section of daily “Diario del Fin del Mundo”, edited in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina, recalls that almost a century and a half ago, more precisely December 1881, the Falkland Islands Company, FIC, “at the time with total control over the Falklands economy”, approached the Argentine government offering to buy the total of Peninsula Valdes, Chubut province and an area in Tierra del Fuego next to San Sebastian Bay, and its surrounding 160 leguas (league) for the rearing of sheep.

• Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Essequibo crisis: Venezuela launches defensive military operation

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered preventive measures be taken as the Royal Navy's HMS Trent was reaching the area to side with Guyana amid tensions over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo area.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Milei sends multi-item reform bill to Argentine Congress

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Wednesday sent to Congress a multi-item bill providing for the suppression of the Mandatory, Simultaneous, and Open Primary (PASO) elections, tougher police control in case of protests, and the privatization of 41 public companies, among other measures to rescue the South American country from its current crisis.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 09:53 UTC

  Uneventful protest in Argentina ends in arrests and other incidents in adjacent areas

  

  Several people were arrested in downtown Buenos Aires on Wednesday after a demonstration in front of the main Courthouse in which the country's unions and some social organizations demanded that President Javier Milei's sweeping emergency decree (DNU) of last week be overturned by the judiciary through a declaration of unconstitutionality.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 09:04 UTC

  Chile's state-owned Codelco strikes deal with SQP for lithium extraction

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday celebrated a new agreement between the state-owned National Copper Corporation (Codelco) and Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM) to create a public-private partnership to exploit the country's lithium, with the state as the main shareholder, it was reported in Santiago.

• Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 08:37 UTC

  Antisemitism case against Roger Waters admitted in Buenos Aires

  

  An Argentine court has agreed to review an antisemitism complaint filed by Shoah survivor Carlos Zigelbaum and his son Sergio Zigelbaum against British pop musician Roger Waters, it was reported this week in Buenos Aires.