Politics

Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Gibraltar Chief Minister tests positive for COVID-19 on return from UK

Gibraltar Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo QC MP, tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday upon his return from the United Kingdom. Mrs Picardo, who travelled with the Chief Minister, has tested negative.
Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC
British Army to launch “Operation Escalin” to avert petrol shortages

The British Government finally decided to launch “Operation Escalin,” a deployment of Army staff to “start delivering fuel to pumps” in a move to avert shortages of petrol.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 20:00 UTC
Congressman from Argentina's ruling FdT want bank deposits nationalized, Perón style

National Deputy José Luis Martiarena from the province of Jujuy's Frente de Todos party of President Alberto Fernández Thursday submitted a bill whereby bank deposits would be nationalized “to reform the financial system.”
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 19:48 UTC
Argentina to strike all restrictions on flights as of next month

Argentina's Interior Minister Wado De Pedro, Friday announced that effective November 1 airlines interested in operating in the country will be able to do so with no coronavirus restrictions in place.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 19:23 UTC
Uruguayan President's rating of approval back on its way up, poll says

Popular support to Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou, which had been declining in the past few months, has resumed its upward trend and grew 5% since July's, a study conducted by pollsters Factum has shown.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 17:50 UTC
Chile lifts curfew; quarantine only for travelers and other specific situations

Chilean authorities have lifted the curfew imposed over a year and a half ago as a part of the sanitary measures against the COVID-19 pandemic effective Oct. 1, it was announced.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:53 UTC
Irregular migration and drug trafficking alongside Bolivia-Chile border keeps drawing concern

While Chile's presidential delegate at Tarapacá, Miguel Ángel Quezada, accused Bolivia on Thursday of “not making any effort” to prevent the crossing of irregular migrants through the common border, authorities from both countries have formed four working groups to coordinate the fight against drug trafficking.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:33 UTC
Fear reigns among Venezuelans as six more zeros are to be removed from local currency

Unrest reigned Thursday among Venezuelans as Friday's monetary reconversion which will remove six zeros from “sovereign bolivars” loomed over, prompting the exchange rate with the US dollar to skyrocket.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:02 UTC
Embarrassing private messages by Brazilian President disclosed

Brazilian news outlets Thursday revealed embarrassing private Whatsapp messages from President Jair Bolsonaro which included homophobic remarks and words of praise for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Friday, October 1st 2021 - 08:44 UTC
At least 118 dead in Ecuadorian prison riot involving Mexican drug cartels

Ecuador's police was still fighting to control a jailhouse in Guayaquil after a riot by inmates led to clashes that have so far resulted in 118 deaths in what turned out to be one of Latin America's worst prison massacres.