Politics

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 22:45 UTC

  Lula now wears bulletproof vests during political rallies

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began wearing a bullet-proof vest during a mass rally Thursday evening in Rio de Janeiro after a homemade explosive device containing excrements blew up, although nobody was injured.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 22:37 UTC

  Argentine Navy 2022 social campaign comes to an end

  

  The Argentine Navy has rounded up its 2022 Socio Sanitary Fluvial Campaign with the arrival of patrol boats ARA King and ARA Río Santiago at the Buenos Aires Naval Base, it was announced this week.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 20:36 UTC

  China on war alert over US Senator trip to Taiwan

  

  China is said to be upping its military preparations while US Senator Rick Scott is visiting Taiwan, which Beijing considers to be a rogue province. “These actions by the United States seriously violated the One China principle,” Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman Wu Qian said Friday.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Argentina protests the designation of Protected Areas in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

  

  The Argentine government in a protest note addressed to the United Kingdom pointed out its complete rejection of UK's intended designation of the entire landmass of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) as Specially Protected Areas.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Gibraltar tells Andalucía, “cooperation YES, joint sovereignty NO, they don't mix!”

  

  The Government of Gibraltar announced it has taken notice of the positive statements by the President of the Junta de Andalucía on cooperation. The President made the comments in the context of the political changes happening in the United Kingdom, and also on the recent June election overwhelming victory of the conservative opposition, Popular Party described as “historic”.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguayan official says judge's ruling on vax was “nonsense”

  

  Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday admitted that “rulings are obeyed, but they can be criticized and this ruling is nonsense.” He made those remarks after Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey ordered vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged under 13 years of age to be halted.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Argentine minister off on European tour to buy new submarine

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana and a team of top-ranking Navy officers are on a trip to Europe to hold talks with several shipyards for the purchase of a new submarine to replace the ARA San Juan, it was reported.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Bolivia to produce toothpaste made of coca leaves

  

  The Bolivian government Tuesday announced the creation of the state-run Empresa Pública Productiva de Industrialización to start the production of a new brand of toothpaste made from coca leaves to fulfill the Constitutional mandate to capitalize on a native and ancestral natural resource, which is the cultural heritage of the country.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 08:28 UTC

  Batakis: Dollars needed from agriculture and from not vacationing abroad

  

  Argentina's newly-appointed Economy Minister Silvina Batakis Wednesday insisted the country needed a more efficient agricultural productivity and the ensuing liquidation of assets through the official currency exchange scheme to add to the Treasury's coffers.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 21:25 UTC

  China once again backs Argentina joining BRICS

  

  China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi Thursday told his Argentine counterpart, Santiago Cafiero, that the Asian giant favored the South American country's joining BRICS. Wang made those statements in Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of the G20 ministerial meeting.