Politics

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Office of Medellín's Mayor launches masturbation-awareness campaign

  

  The Office of the Mayor of the Colombian city of Medellín has launched a most unusual campaign on social media to rid masturbation from the moral prejudices surrounding it.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Truckers relax measures but remain on strike over fuel price in Paraguay

  

  Paraguayan lorry drivers have vowed to ease down their road-blocking measures after they were promised a reduction in the price of fuel.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Chilean drought: Santiago faces water rationing in second half of 2022

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric has called on Metropolitan Santiago residents to make rational use of drinking water, since the situation is extremely serious, following several years of drought and or insufficient rainfall.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine Senate gives thumbs up to IMF deal

  

  Argentina's Senate Thursday approved the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to repay the US$ 45 billion borrowed under the administration of former President Mauricio Macri in 2018.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Vaccinated travelers to be spared further testing to enter Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera has requested his Public Health colleague Daniel Salinas to review the possibility that incoming travelers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are spared the swab test at the earliest.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru's Constitutional Court ruling clears path to Fujimori's release

  

  Peru's Constitutional Court Thursday upheld a Presidential pardon granted in 2017 by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) to Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Vessels with Ukrainian grains blocked by the Russian navy in the Black Sea

  

  The Russian Navy is blocking grain-laden vessels from leaving the Black Sea after having loaded in Ukrainian ports, according to BayWa, Germany's largest grain trader which is involved with cereals trade in central Europe. Meanwhile, the IMO is calling for “blue corridors” to allow merchant vessels to sail without incidents.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Cuban demonstrators given jail terms of 4 to 30 years

  

  Cuba's Judiciary handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 30 years to the July 11 demonstrators who filled the streets demanding an improvement to their living conditions, it was reported Thursday.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  BBC apologizes and agrees to pay “substantial sum” to Lady Di's former secretary

  

  BBC has publicly apologized and agreed to pay a substantial sum to the late Princess Diana private secretary, Commander Patrick Jephson, because of “harm caused to him” over Martin Bashir's Panorama 1995 interview of the former wife of Prince Charles.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Nicaragua outlaws yet another 25 NGOs

  

  The Government of Nicaragua has outlawed yet another 25 Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), bringing that figure up to 87 since December of 2018, it was reported Thursday.