Politics

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 11:55 UTC

  Argentina and main creditors on the last leg of negotiations: reviewed exchange of payment proposals

  

  Some of Argentina’s largest creditors presented a new debt proposal to the government over the weekend as the two sides edge closer to a US$ 65 billion restructuring deal, according to people familiar with the matter.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 10:30 UTC

  Solá confirms end of fisheries info exchange with Falklands: on this, they decided how many licenses to award

  

  Higher fines to those illegally fishing in Argentine waters, including around the Malvinas Islands, is directed to discourage poachers, indicated Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá who also defended the decision to interrupt the exchange of fisheries information on the South Atlantic bio-mass with the United Kingdom and the Falklands.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro again challenges Supreme Court: military will not remove a democratically elected president

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that the country’s military would not obey any order to remove an elected president, deepening a war of words with the judicial branch that has led to fears of threats to democracy in the country.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  Brazilian Attorney General Office investigating hospital invasions by Bolsonaro supporters

  

  Brazil's Attorney General has called for an investigation into several invasions of hospitals in the country after its President called on Brazilians to inspect the conditions of medical wards treating Covid-19 patients.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  UNCTAD anticipates value of global trade in second quarter will drop 27%

  

  A study carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Unctad, pointed out that disruptions to the economic and social sectors by the pandemic have caused a dramatic decline in trade.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  White House press corps hailed as “information heroes” by Reporters Without Frontiers

  

  Reporters' watchdog has hailed the White House press corps as “information heroes” alongside 30 journalists, whistleblowers, and media outlets struggling against the odds to get the truth out about the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Chilean government extends state of catastrophe for 90 days faced with dramatic increase of Covid-19 contagion

  

  Chile´s government said on Monday it would extend a state of catastrophe in place since mid-March by 90 days as cases of coronavirus in the country have surged.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazilian education minister fined US$ 385 for not wearing a face mask at a Bolsonaro support rally

  

  Brazil's education minister has been fined for failing to wear a face mask at a rally for President Jair Bolsonaro, who has himself repeatedly flouted Brasilia's masks-in-public rule amid the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Tens of oil wells offline because of sabotage operations in Colombia

  

  Colombia’s majority state-owned oil company Ecopetrol denounced on Sunday the sabotage of 31 wells at an oil field in the northeast of the country, which put the wells offline and led to oil being spilled.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  Brazilian Treasury Secretary plans to resign from government in next two months

  

  Brazilian Treasury Secretary Mansueto Almeida confirmed in an interview with financial blog Brazil Journal published on Sunday that he plans to resign from the government in July or August.