Politics

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:25 UTC

  Hitmen assassinate Presidential candidate in Ecuador

  

  Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio died after being attacked by hitmen on his way out of a campaign rally in downtown Quito ahead of the upcoming Aug. 20 elections, Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed in the Ecuadorian capital. Other people were wounded, it was reported.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 11:23 UTC

  Falklands by-election 21 September 2023: Proxy, postal and proxy postal votes

  

  The Falkland Islands Registration Officer is reminding the public that the closing date to apply for inclusion on the Register of Electors and to vote by means of a proxy, postal or proxy postal vote is midday on Monday 21 August 2023. After this time no applications will be accepted.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  Chilean lawmakers want to know about US involvement in 1973 coup

  

  Chile's Lower House Wednesday agreed to ask President Gabriel Boric Font to instruct the Foreign Ministry to request the government of the United States to release the details of its involvement in the Sept. 11, 1973, coup d'état staged by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte against the democratically-elected Salvador Allende, it was reported in Santiago.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Uruguayan orange producers said to be retaining cheap Argentine labor

  

  Agricultural producers in the Salto area have been reported to hire Argentine labor from Concordia just across the border and pay them three times less than they would local workers, Uruguay's National Union of Salaried, Rural, and Related Workers (Unión Nacional de Asalariados, Trabajadores Rurales y Afines - Unatra) denounced.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Edilene Lobo becomes first black woman to join Brazil's TSE

  

  Lawyer Edilene Lobo became the first black woman to join Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) after she was sworn in as a substitute judge on Tuesday before Chief Justice Alexandre De Moraes, Agência Brasil reported.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  King Charles III 50p coins begin circulating , “a piece of British history”

  

  A batch of millions of 50p coins celebrating the coronation of King Charles III will begin circulation in UK. Featuring a design by Royal Mint coin designer Natasha Jenkins, the coins are the second 50ps to enter circulation bearing the monarch's official coin portrait.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  UK warned EU of “Argentina's misinterpretation” on any Falklands reference

  

  The British press is revealing some of the facts surrounding the European Union/Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit, held in the third week of July in Brussels when Argentina celebrated that in the controversial final communiqué, a reference to the Falklands was changed to Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Overseas Territories two-day Biodiversity Strategy forum held in the Falkland Islands

  

  A successful two-day workshop for the new Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy, held in the Falkland Islands concluded successfully last Friday. The workshop led by the UK’s Joint Nature Conservation Committee, in partnership with FIG and representatives from conservation, science, rural business, economic development, tourism and fishing sectors.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Argentina: Milei closes campaign ahead of PASO elections

  

  Libertarian Deputy Javier Milei closed his campaign for Sunday's Simultaneous, Open, and Mandatory Primary (PASO) presidential elections like a rock star in a packed Buenos Aires indoor 15,000-capacity Movistar Arena, capitalizing on one of Mexican singer Luis Miguel's days off at the venue.

• Wednesday, August 9th 2023 - 10:34 UTC

  Colombian President wants to create “Amazon NATO” to defend jungle “with weapons”

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego Tuesday suggested during his speech at the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) Summit in the Brazilian city of Belém that an international environmental court should be created to prosecute crimes in the area, in addition to an “Amazon NATO” to defend the region “with weapons”.