Politics

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Colombian president and FARC leaders agreed to speed integration process of ex guerrillas

  

  Colombia's President Ivan Duque held talks with former FARC guerrilla leaders on Friday, pledging to speed up the integration of ex-combatants following the 2016 peace agreement, a top advisor said. Duque's commitment came during an unprecedented meeting between the hard line president and leaders of the former leftist guerrilla movement in Bogota.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Biden makes a conciliatory speech, but no victory celebration as vote counting continues

  

  Democrat Joe Biden said on Friday that he was going to win the U.S. presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him the victor as officials continued to count votes.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Bolivia's miracle architect now faces the challenge of scarce funds and managing austerity

  

  Luis Arce, a quiet economist who will be sworn in as Bolivia's president on Sunday after a landslide election win, knew where he stood in the political spectrum as a young teenager in La Paz, when he picked up the writings of philosopher Karl Marx.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Brazil's top telecom companies declined to meet US envoy critical of Huawei

  

  Brazil’s top four telecom companies have decided not to meet with a visiting senior U.S. official who has advocated excluding China’s Huawei Technologies from the Brazilian 5G equipment market, according to Sao Paulo media.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentina expected to request fresh funds from IMF; mission arrives next week

  

  A mission from the International Monetary Fund will visit Argentina from Nov. 10 to begin formal negotiations for a new financing program, an IMF spokesman said on Friday.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Four days blackout in Brazilian Amapa state: full service restoration in ten days

  

  A fire at an electricity substation has caused four days of blackouts in most of northern Brazil’s Amapa state, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Members of the Malvinas Council appointed on the flag anniversary

  

  The Argentine government announced on Thursday some of the names that will be sitting at the National Council on Issues Relative to the Malvinas, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, as passed unanimously by the Argentine congress last August.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Iran, Venezuela's close ally proclaims 'US can no longer control what's happening in the world'

  

  Iran believes the U.S. government no longer can “control what’s happening in the world” or show other countries how to protect citizens’ rights, the Iranian foreign minister said on Thursday during a visit to ally Venezuela.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Falkland Islands fly the flag for self-determination

  

  The Falkland Islands Government notes the Government of Argentina’s latest attempt to twist history in favor of their claim over our sovereignty. By marking the raising of their flag in the Falkland Islands, they only highlight the flaws in their interpretation of the history of our home.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru join forces to combat illegal fishing

  

  Four South American countries joined forces this week in a bid to combat illegal fishing by huge Chinese fleets off their coasts. Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru threatened measures “to prevent, discourage and jointly confront” illegal fishing near their exclusive economic zones in the Pacific.