Politics

• Saturday, February 11th 2023 - 08:49 UTC

  Agustín Rossi picked to succeed Manzur as Argentina's Cabinet Chief

  

  Former Defense Minister and current Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) Director Agustín Rossi has been chosen to become Argentina's new Cabinet Chief next week due to Juan Manzur's resignation to handle the ruling party's campaign in the province of Tucumán, Casa Rosada sources said Friday.

• Friday, February 10th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Uruguay: Lacalle's popularity wanes after Astesiano and Peña scandals, poll shows

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou's popularity sank deeply in the last few weeks after a series of scandals became public, particularly those involving his chief security officer Alejandro Astesiano and former Environment Minister Adrián Peña's lack of a college degree despite which he used the prefix “Lic.” indicating otherwise.

• Friday, February 10th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Lula lands in Washington for Biden meeting

  

  Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva arrived Thursday in the United States for a meeting at the White House with his US colleague Joseph Biden Friday, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, February 10th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

  Reopening of Argentina's embassy in Bangladesh made official

  

  The reopening of Argentina's embassy in the People's Republic of Bangladesh was published Thursday in the Official Gazette. The diplomatic mission to be reopened in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, had been shut down in 1978 but interest from the South American country in the Asian nation resurfaced during the 2022 football World Cup, which was celebrated as if Bangladesh had defeated France in the final.

• Friday, February 10th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

  Child mortality among Yanomamis 10 times higher than Brazil's national rate

  

  Malnutrition due to lack of natural resources is one of the causes of Yanomami children having a mortality rate tenfold that of the whole of South America's largest country, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday.

• Friday, February 10th 2023 - 09:42 UTC

  Ecuador's President reshuffles cabinet after referendum defeat

  

  Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso Thursday reshuffled his cabinet after losing last Sunday's referendum and local elections to the left. The conservative head of state brought on some fresh air to his administration by changing the government minister and two of his most loyal advisors, in addition to making new appointments where the opposition prevailed.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Malvinas to be returned to Argentina soon, says Argentine Defense Minister

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana said the Malvinas Islands were to be restored “sooner rather than later... to its legitimate owners.” He made those remarks to veterans from the 1982 war attending the reopening of the Air Force's Base in Rìo Gallegos, from where converted training IA-63 Pampa III jets with fighting capabilities will “monitor and control” the South Atlantic enclave. The unit had not had combat aircraft since 1996.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  Lula da Silva will be visiting the White House on Friday: long list of issues in the bilateral agenda

  

  United States President Joe Biden will be receiving Brazilian president Lula da Silva in the White House on Friday. The meeting is intended “to further strengthen the close relationship between the United States and Brazil,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Lilita Carrió running in Argentine opposition presidential primaries

  

  Veteran Argentine politician Elisa “Lilita” Carrió of the Coalición Cívica-Ari party Wednesday announced she will be running in this year's presidential primaries within the Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) coalition.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Brazil concerned with the concentration of its foreign trade: few products and volumes mostly to China

  

  In the last ten years, up until 2021, Brazilian export to China grew at a greater rate that those to rest of the world. From 2012 to 2021, China’s importance as an export destination for the five regions in which Brazil is divided grew exponentially, and of the 27 federal states, 21 saw their sales to China grow above the expansion of their sales to the world. In the period, however, the export basket was negatively concentrated around a few primary products.