Politics

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentina signs agreement to purchase 20 million doses of Moderna vaccine

  

  Argentine authorities have announced Sunday that an agreement had been signed with Moderna Inc for the supply of 20 million doses of their vaccine against Covid-19.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Cubans tired of shortages, stage historic large-scale protests

  

  Scores of impoverished Cubans took to the streets of nearly every city in the country Sunday to protest against the shortages in food, electricity and medicines, in addition to the already usual restrictions upon individual liberties.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Peruvian prosecution to investigate Keiko Fujimori's alleged “disturbing of the vote”

  

  Peru's State Attorney has announced conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori is to be investigated for allegedly disturbing the electoral process through the filing of 760 requests for annulment of different polling stations after June 6's presidential runoff.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Magallanes with first elected governor wants to freeze or relocate concessions for news salmon farms

  

  Next Thursday Magallanes Region will be living a historic event, for the first time an elected governor will be taking office in Punta Arenas. Until now it was the central government, Santiago that appointed the official, but since the political and social reforms that emerged from the 2019/20 upheavals including the current assembly to draft a new constitution, things have changed in Chile particularly exposing the fragility of the so-called “Chilean model”. And in Magallanes, an issue outstands, salmon farming in maritime spaces.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil: São Paulo's elderly unable to cope with inflation, study shows

  

  More than 50% of São Paulo's senior citizens interviewed during a survey have admitted they could not make ends meet.

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Haiti's Senate appoints interim president and fuels domestic disputes

  

  Haiti's Senate has appointed Speaker Joseph Lambert as interim president following the assassination of Jovenel Moïse and denied Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph was in charge of the country, despite endorsement from the United States and the United Nations.

• Saturday, July 10th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentina slowly allows for return of more nationals stranded abroad

  

  After rumours of all kinds, it was announced Friday that Argentina would gradually increase the number of travellers who may come back to the country through the Ezeiza international airport in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, July 10th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentine Economy Minister wants common tax on multinational companies higher than 15%

  

  Argentina's Economy Minister Martín Guzmán Friday requested that a global tax to be applied to multinational companies was higher than the 15% put forward by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

• Saturday, July 10th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Fernández hosts Argentine Independence Day ceremony at historic Tucumán house amid protests

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday headed the celebrations marking the 205th anniversary of the country's Declaration of Independence. From the historic house in the Argentine province of Tucumán, where dignitaries of the provinces signed the declaration in 1816, Fernández said Argentines were “close to the tomorrow we want,” in a message posted on social media.

• Saturday, July 10th 2021 - 08:25 UTC

  Bolsonaro calls judge opposing printed ballots “an idiot”

  

  One day after saying he could not care less -but with a harsher vocabulary- about the Senatorial Committee (CPI) investigating his management of the coronavirus pandemic, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso “an idiot.”