Politics

Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:31 UTC
Bolsonaro angry at YPFB for selling Argentina the gas that was for Brazil

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained that Bolivia's state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petróliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) funneled 30% of the gas that was to be sold to Brazil and sent it to Argentina as a part of an “orchestrated plan” against him and added Petrobras was behind it.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:33 UTC
UK Foreign office releases paper on Business Risks in Uruguay

Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou is currently on a four-day visit to Great Britain, invited by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to Uruguayan officials, the main purpose of the visit is to promote trade and investments and reinforce the strong historic ties between the two countries.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:25 UTC
Argentina: Domestic Trade Secretary resigns over ministerial rearrangement

Argentina's Domestic Trade Secretary Roberto Feletti has turned in his resignation after his office was relocated from the Ministry of Productive Development to the Ministry of Economy.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:10 UTC
Powell takes oath as Fed's chair second term; first African American woman joins US central bank

Jerome H. Powell on Monday took the oath of office for his second term as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Vice-Chair Lael Brainard administered Chair Powell's oath in the press briefing room of the Board's Martin Building.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:03 UTC
Defense ministers to create “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group”

Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Monday welcomed his Bolivian counterpart Edmundo Novillo Aguilar in Buenos Aires. During the meeting, an agreement to create the so-called “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group” was signed.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
Eichmann audios recorded in Argentina to be released

An Israeli documentary to be released shortly features voice recordings of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Mossad in the early 1960s in San Fernando, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was reported.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:15 UTC
Brazil sacks Petrobras CEO yet again

Brazil's Government has replaced yet again the chairman of the state-run oil company Petrobras in which private investors also have a share.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
Biden on Asian tour amid growing military threats from China, N.Korea

US President Joseph Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Monday at Tokyo's State House to discuss their two countries' joint deterrence and response capabilities in case of a military conflict involving China, which has sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone in recent weeks.
Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 08:55 UTC
Ukraine war: Poland wants Norway to share windfall gains from oil and gas sales

Norway which is western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, and also has one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend, according to Tsvetana Parakova from Oilprice.
Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 23:54 UTC
Lacalle Pou with a green message in London: Uruguay “is among the strongest democracies in the world”

By Graham Bound for MercoPress (London) – Only on the most serene of news-days might a visit to the United Kingdom by the President of Uruguay make headlines in the country’s newspapers and broadcast bulletins. For a little while it actually looked as if there might be just such a benign news environment. But as President Luis Lacalle Pou took his seat at Canning House, the Latin America and Iberia think tank, on Monday evening to deliver a lecture titled “Uruguay, a Reliable Gateway to South America – Opportunities in Green Finance”, he must have known that he had been totally eclipsed by his host, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.