Politics

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 11:15 UTC

  Uruguay central bank raises “price of money” reference from 4,5% to 5%

  

  The Uruguayan central bank following the meeting of its Copom, Monetary Policy Committee, decided last week to raise the basic monetary policy rate from 4,5% to 5%, in line with what has been happening in other central banks in the region.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 11:14 UTC

  No more quarantine for all of Chile starting Wednesday

  

  Chilean health authorities have announced that no commune in the entire country will be under quarantine as of next Wednesday, as a part of the step-by-set program towards normalization.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 11:04 UTC

  Bolivia no longer needs Sputnik V and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Bolivian authorities Monday announced that with the last purchase of COVID-19 Sinopharm vaccines, the country was fully supplied with immunizers and would no longer need to import any more doses of Sputnik V and AstraZeneca despite contracts already signed.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Paraguayan Police takes action to clear roads besieged by striking truckers

  

  Paraguay's National Police Monday took action to clear the roads which were being blocked by striking lorries in Guairá and Alto Paraná, it was reported.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Polls and proposed prime minister bloat disapproval for Peruvian president

  

  No rest for Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, not only opinion polls show that he is the newly inaugurated president with the lowest approval and highest disapproval since 1980, but his candidate for prime minister is again in trouble this time for alleged money laundering and illegal financing of his political campaign as a member of congress.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 07:10 UTC

  Uruguay and Armenia to open reciprocal embassies

  

  Uruguay and Armenia will up their diplomatic relations by opening up reciprocal embassies in Montevideo and Erevan, it was announced Monday.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 19:48 UTC

  How a secret meeting in August 1971 transformed the global economy

  

  By Atish Rex Ghosh (*) - History is a confluence of underlying forces and specific triggering events. Think of the start of World War I: economic, imperial, and nationalistic tensions that had simmered for years exploded into open conflict when Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s motorcade took a wrong turn, putting him in the path of an assassin’s bullet.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Argentine province of Salta holds local elections under sanitary protocols

  

  The Argentine province of Salta Sunday held local elections of provincial and municipal lawmakers through an electronic ballot system and amid special covid-19 protection measures.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:30 UTC

  Taliban regain control of Afghanistan after 20 years

  

  Taliban militias have seized Afghanistan's capital Kabul, while President Ashraf Ghani fled the country after swift military actions over the past week. The war in Afghanistan “is over,” a spokesman for the Taliban's political office announced, adding that “soon” it will be clear what kind of government there will be under the Taliban 20 years after a US-led military invasion had ousted them.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands Islands (Malvinas): Forensic identification of fallen Argentine soldiers begins

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas).