Politics

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  CFK decries double standards within UN Security Council regarding Ukraine and Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Sunday said Western powers had double standards when addressing the Ukraine crisis. The former head of state (2007-2015) recalled that in 2014 -under her presidency-, Argentina supported Kyiv against Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula by force.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner still complaining about Falklands' 2013 referendum

  

  Argentina's main leader and vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recalled on Sunday in Twitter that her government strongly supported Ukraine back in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, but also complained about the double standard of the “great powers” in their stance regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Islands issue.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:15 UTC

  Steel cutting ceremony to build multipurpose vessels for the Chilean navy

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera headed on Sunday the steel cutting ceremony for the building of the first, --out of four--, multipurpose vessel, to be incorporated to the country's navy. Also present at the ceremony were Defense minister Baldo Prokurica and the commander in chief of the navy, Admiral Juan Andrés de la Maza.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:05 UTC

  South Africa becoming a welfare state, finance minister tells Congress

  

  South Africa’s new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has told Congress the country was becoming a welfare state fast and he sought Parliamentarian approval for his first budget.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro finally reveals where Brazil will stand regarding Ukraine

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro finally made an explicit statement about his country’s stance regarding the Ukraine crisis following Russia’s invasion: The country shall remain “neutral.”

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Russia, Ukraine delegations to meet in Belarus

  

  Talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials are scheduled to start Monday at a venue on the Belarusian border, it was announced Sunday.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Prosecutors behind plot to overthrow Peru’s President?

  

  Peru’s President Pedro Castillo Terrones Sunday hinted the Prosecutor's Office might hold some sort of grudge on him and insisted it carried on with the ongoing investigations at the earliest.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguay endorses OAS statement against Russian invasion of Ukraine

  

  Uruguay Sunday chose to join the list of Organization of American States (OAS) countries opposing Russia’s military actions in Ukraine after Friday’s initial decision not to sign the declaration in that regard.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Colombia records 33rd murder of a social leader so far in 2022

  

  Less than two months into the year 2022 and 33 social leaders have been murdered so far in Colombia after the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) Sunday denounced the killing of Gustavo Antonio Torres, this time in Tibú, Norte de Santander.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  President overflies Argentine provinces under fire

  

  President Alberto Fernández has overflown together with local authorities the areas in the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones which have been devastated by fires.