Politics

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 08:37 UTC

  China enters auto manufacturing industry in Brazil, acquiring Mercedes-Benz plant

  

  The Chinese auto industry is penetrating Brazil. Automaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) reported that it has purchased the Mercedes-Benz car factory in Iracemápolis, Sao Paulo state, according to a report in the financial sector from the newspaper “O Globo” last Sunday.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Migrations Chief admits Argentine borders with neighboring countries may reopen soon, depending on vaccination rate

  

  Argentina's Migrations Director Florencia Carignano Monday said reopening borders with neighbouring countries was under consideration for when vaccination has reached a larger number of people.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay's yearly inflation set at 7.33% after Monday's figures

  

  Uruguay's yearly Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 7.33% as per data released Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), slightly above the government's target.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Biden reaffirms support for Guaidó on Venezuela's Independence Day

  

  On the anniversary of Venezuela's independence, July 5, President Joe Biden sent a letter reaffirming US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  More than 50% of Uruguayans vaccinated with both doses

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Monday announced his country had already inoculated over half its population against SARS-Cov-2 with two doses of anticoronavirus vaccines.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico to raffle assets belonging to drug lord “El Chapo” Guzmán

  

  Mexico's government announced that it will raffle a house belonging to drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, “El Chapo” and where he was arrested in 2014. “El Chapo” head of the Sinaloa cartel is now serving a life sentence in a US high-security prison.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo hope to find more missing grandchildren thanks to covid-19 vaccination pictures

  

  Argentine victims of disappearances and child abductions during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 are relying on vaccination efforts to help them find some of their 300 missing grandchildren.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Violence present in fact and thought all across Colombia over the weekend

  

  Violence was present over the weekend all across Colombia either as a factor as a subject of debate.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Biden hosts his first 4th of July celebration as US President

  

  US President Joseph Biden Sunday hosted a party at the White House marking the 245th Anniversary of his country's Declaration of Independence.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Bringing all Argentines stranded abroad back home at a rate of 600 daily passengers might take up to five months

  

  Argentina's Chamber of Airlines (JURCA) issued a statement over this weekend, warning that bringing back all travellers banned from reentering the country following a cap of 600 airborne passengers a day might take up to five months.