Politics

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Uruguay has vaccinated 70% of its population with two doses against COVID-19; Brazil only 26.83%

  

  Uruguay's Public Health Ministry (MSP) Tuesday announced 70% of the population had already received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines such as CoronaVac, Pfizer or AstraZeneca, while a private survey showed only 26.83% of Brazilians were at the same level.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 09:26 UTC

  COVID-19 vaccines keep pouring into Argentina, including those of Pfizer for teenagers

  

  Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Tuesday announced the first 580,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were slated to arrive in the country next month. These chemicals will be allocated chiefly to adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age, Vizzotti explained.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazilian Senate agrees to two more years of Augusto Aras as Attorney General

  

  Brazil's Senate Tuesday approved by 55 votes against 10 and one abstention in a secret ballot to extend Augusto Aras' tenure as Attorney General for two more years.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  Former Uruguayan Tourism minister forced to resign has many influential friends in the political system

  

  “Please be careful with the management of public monies”, Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou advised the newly appointed Tourism minister, lawmaker Tabare Viera, who on Monday replaced German Cardoso, also elected lawmaker but extremely pragmatic in his political alliances, and audaciously close on occasions to redlines.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 07:57 UTC

  Argentina prosecution sustains Tierra del Fuego bill banning salmon breeding

  

  Argentina's Prosecution office considered that the Tierra del Fuego province bill establishing limits, and rulings for the breeding and production of salmon species in provincial jurisdictional waters “do not exceed limits of the reasonable” and besides were approved by the Legislative in “the full exercise of its environmental competence, which privilege the conservation of natural resources above considerations of other nature”.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 07:36 UTC

  Royal Navy helping to survey devastation in earthquake hit Haiti

  

  Royal Navy aviators are helping to survey the devastation in Haiti as they fly dawn-to-dusk flights over the earthquake-hit Caribbean country. A helicopter from support ship RFA Wave Knight has been in the air since Friday, flying over parts of the Tiburon Peninsula – epicenter of the quake which struck on August 14 – to locate villages, towns and infrastructure urgently in need of help.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 07:11 UTC

  Colombian President kicks off South Korean tour in search for paths to economic recovery

  

  Colombia's President Ivan Duque has landed in Seoul to start his South Korean investment-seeking tour to try to reactivate the South American country's economy after setbacks from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Former top Macrist officials added to list of defendants in Argentine case for smuggling guns to overthrow Evo in 2019

  

  Argentine prosecutors Monday decided to indict top-ranking officials from the administration of former President Mauricio Macri for their alleged involvement in the supplying of weapons to Bolivian armed forces who helped overthrow Evo Morales in 2019.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Tabaré Viera becomes Uruguay's new Minister of Tourism

  

  The Government of Uruguay has appointed Colorado Senator Tabaré Viera and the nation's new Minister of Tourism following the resignation of Germán Cardoso amid a corruption scandal.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  IMF largest allocation of SDRs, US$650 billion comes into effect; Ms Georgieva calls for wise use of funds

  

  The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva announced on Monday the largest allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) in history—about US$650 billion— and described the operation as a significant shot in the arm for the world and, if used wisely, a unique opportunity to combat this unprecedented crisis.