Politics

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  IMF Chief ratifies agency's support to Argentina

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva congratulated Argentina's Economy Minister Serio Massa on his appointment and ratified the agency's support for the country's recovery, it was reported Wednesday.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Resignation of those who declared a volcano a Mapuche sacred site requested

  

  Argentina's Environment Minister Juan Cabandié demanded the resignation of National Parks Administration (APN) Chairman Lautaro Erratchú and of the rest of the agency's board after last week they declared the Lanín volcano a Mapuche sacred site.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentina announces the construction of labs in Antarctica to reaffirm science and sovereignty

  

  Argentina will create “Antarctic Multidisciplinary Laboratories” to further promote research in the country's bases in the white continent, in the framework of the program “Building Science”. The program is sponsored by the ministries of Foreign Affairs; Science, Technology and Innovation, and Defense, and has specific funds earmarked.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Chile and UK discuss green energy cooperation and delivery of ex-RAF Sentry aircraft

  

  Chilean foreign minister Antonia Urrejola received the British Ambassador in Santiago, Louise de Sousa to address several issues of the bilateral agenda, particularly referred to green energies.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 20:49 UTC

  Former Paraguayan President Lugo in ICU

  

  Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been hospitalized Wednesday in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after a stroke for which he remains under an induced coma, according to fellow leftwing Senator Jorge Querey, who is also the family's head physician.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 14:38 UTC

  Chilean congress has two years to rewrite a new Fisheries bill

  

  The Chilean Lower House approved a bill repealing the “Fisheries Law”, better known as the “Longueira Law” since he was the great sponsor and defender of the legislation when he was the Economy minister. The repeal initiative received 117 votes, no nays, and twenty abstentions. The bill now begins to be discussed in the Chilean Senate.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Uruguayan Central Bank to commemorate Andes survivors

  

  Uruguay's Central Bank is to mint 5,000 coins to commemorate the so-called Miracle of the Andes, the survival of 16 passengers of Air Force transport Flight 571 aircraft that crashed on its way to Chile Oct. 13 1972.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Brazil's inflation for July 2022 best in 42 years

  

  Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics Tuesday released its monthly price index report for the month of July, which returned negative figures, in line with Central Bank projections that inflation was slowing down.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Mexico: AMLO announcement dubbed “a soft coup”

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday came under heavy criticism when he announced that he would transfer the National Guard to the scope of the Armed Forces, which was regarded as a “soft” coup d'état.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Uruguay's Parliament passes defense agreement with China

  

  Uruguay's Congress Tuesday approved the implementation of joint defense efforts with China agreed upon in 2019, when the two countries pledged to increase cooperation between their respective Ministries of Defense, “within the limits of their competencies.”