Politics

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:20 UTC

  Lula sets up committee to work on legislating Uber-like work

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration created a working group to draft labor rules for drivers and good deliverers using mobile applications. The initiative was published Monday in the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette).

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  LATAC renews regional commitment to Gender and Equalities

  

  Renewed commitment brings gender and equality at the heart of the UK’s work in the Latin American And Caribbean region, LATAC, as part of the UK government’s commitment to tackle inequalities around the world.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  Bolivia finds new oil well, President Arce announces

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora Monday announced the discovery of the YOPE-X1 hydrocarbon well in the municipality of Yapacani, in the department of Santa Cruz, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:05 UTC

  Fernández: Argentina has achieved the “lowest unemployment in decades”

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday released a recorded Labor Day message in which he praised his administration for achieving “the lowest unemployment in decades.” There are also “many provinces having full employment,” he added.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 09:50 UTC

  Illegal miners gunned down in Yanomami Territory

  

  Brazil's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change confirmed the death of four miners inside the Yanomami Indigenous Land late on Sunday, April 30, Agencia Brasil reported. They had reacted to a raid by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) and the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama). According to the ministry, during the action, large-caliber weapons were seized.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Colorado Party's Peña wins Paraguayan elections

  

  Santiago Peña of the ruling National Republican Association (ANR), also known as the Colorado Party, won Sunday's elections in Paraguay and will become the South American country's new president on Aug. 15, it was reported in Asunción. Turnout stood at 63.11% despite voting being mandatory.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Falklands Veteran urges PM Sunak to declassify documents of the bombing of Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram

  

  Falklands war Veteran and hero Simon Weston has urged PM Rishi Sunak to declassify documents about the attack that left him disfigured and killed 56 British servicemen. According to a piece published in the Daily Express, Justin Stoneman recalls that when Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram were bombed in 1982 by Argentine jets, it was one of the deadliest days for UK forces since the Second World War.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 09:59 UTC

  Venezuela wants to rescue migrants stranded in border between Chile and Peru

  

  Venezuela's Foreign Ministry started talks with its Chilean and Peruvian counterparts to coordinate flights whereby migrants stranded on the border between these two countries can be flown back to Caracas, it was reported.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  Turkish secret service guns down ISIS leader

  

  Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday announced that his country's secret service -known as MIT- had “neutralized” ISIS leader Abu al Husein al Qurashi, in an operation in Syria.

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 09:50 UTC

  Shooting leaves at least 10 dead in Ecuador

  

  According to the Office of Ecuador's Attorney General, at least ten people were killed and two others were injured in an attack on Saturday evening in Guayaquil.