Politics

Wednesday, November 23rd 2022 - 08:53 UTC
DBRS ups Uruguay's credit rating

Canadian rating agency DBRS Morningstar upgraded Uruguay's foreign currency sovereign debt score from BBB Low to BBB as a result of Montevideo's “substantial improvement” in the country's fiscal outlook, it was reported Tuesday.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 21:41 UTC
Former South African President ordered back to jailhouse

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been ordered back to jail after the Supreme Court overturned his medical parole earlier this week. Zuma had been sentenced to 15 months in jail for refusing to testify in a government inquiry into a corruption case.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:39 UTC
Colombian gov't, ELN resume peace talks in Caracas

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that “time for peace has arrived” as dignitaries from the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas started their ceasefire talks in Caracas Monday.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:37 UTC
Uruguay: ex-presidential custody chief used to offer State spying system; opposition warned of “bribes”

Alejandro Astesiano, the former custodian of President Luis Lacalle Pou, offered the use of El Guardián, the telephone tapping system of the Interior Ministry, which can only be accessed with judicial authorization. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Gabriela Fosatti, investigates in depth the use that Astesiano had of this tool, it was reported.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:13 UTC
Uruguayan Defense Minister reviews troops in Middle East

Uruguay's Defense Minister Javier García reviewed the South American country's peacekeeping mission in Sinai 40 years after its deployment.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:11 UTC
Cuban music legend Pablo Milanés dies aged 79

Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés died Monday in Madrid, after being hospitalized for a series of cancer-related infections. He was 79.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC
Lula back home from larynx surgery

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Hospital Sírio Libanês in São Paulo after undergoing larynx surgery Sunday for a lesion in his left vocal cord.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC
Eight people killed in Medellín air crash

Eight people were reported dead after a light aircraft crashed in a residential area after declaring an emergency following takeoff at Medellín's Olaya Herrera Airport, the same air terminal where famous tango singer Carlos Gardel and his band were killed in an airplane crash on June 24, 1935.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 08:37 UTC
Fourth Kirchner government climax, 12 month food inflation at 100%

The basic food basket, CBA, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, Argentina soared 9,5% during October while the overall food basket, CBT, 9%, according to the latest figures from Indec, the country's stats office. This is 50% higher than the inflation rate for the month of October which stood at 6,3%.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 08:31 UTC
PM Sunak committed to “no turning back on Brexit”, and rejects CBI appeal for closer trade links with EU

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rejected calls from the strongest business lobby, the Confederation of British Industry, CBI, for closer ties with the European Union to address damaging trade barriers born out of Brexit, and also ruled out softer immigration rules to help with labor shortages.