Politics

• Saturday, February 3rd 2024 - 10:28 UTC

  At least 10 killed in simultaneous wildfires across Chile

  

  At least ten people were reported Friday to have died in Chile as forest firest gripped the Valparaíso area, where President Gabriel Boric Font decreed a state of emergency.

• Friday, February 2nd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  BlackRock: Investing guru Larry Fink tells Milei he will be visiting Argentina in May

  

  BlackRock CEO and founder Larry Fink told Argentine President Javier Milei in a virtual meeting that he would be visiting the South American country in May, and Casa Rosada Spokesman Manuel Adorni confirmed in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 2nd 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Brazil: STF judge suspends heavy fine on Odebrecht

  

  Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice José António Dias Toffoli ordered a R$ 8.5 billion (about US$ 1.7 billion) corruption fine on Odebrecht suspended after raising doubts on the circumstances that led the company to accept such a collaboration agreement with the Prosecutor Office.

• Friday, February 2nd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

  Agreement signed to make Port of Asunción a key cultural spot

  

  According to an agreement signed by Paraguay's National Secretariat of Culture (SNC), the National Administration of Navigation and Ports (ANNP), and First Lady Leticia Ocampos, the Port of Asunción will become the country's most important cultural center, it was reported. The measure also seeks to reconvert and revamp the country capital's historic downtown, it was explained.

• Friday, February 2nd 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Blue Helmets off to Cyprus

  

  Argentine defense authorities bid farewell earlier this week to the new group of troops to be deployed in Cyprus as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Blue Helmets (UNFICYP), it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 2nd 2024 - 03:48 UTC

  Strong support from IMF to President Milei and his austerity policies

  

  The new government of Argentine president Javier Milei and its austerity policies to try and put the country's economy back on track received a strong boost from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, which approved the disbursement of US$ 4,7 billion.

• Friday, February 2nd 2024 - 03:46 UTC

  Brazil admits strong deterioration of 2023 government finances: primary deficit 2.1% of GDP

  

  Brazil had undergone a sharp fiscal deterioration during last year with the central government's primary budget deficit reaching 230.5 billion Reais (US$ 47 billion), released data showed this week. The 2.1% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), reverses a 0.5% surplus in 2022 and represents the second-largest ever recorded by the country.

• Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 23:56 UTC

  Four years since Brexit, Northern Ireland is led by a Sinn Féin First Minister, Michelle O'Neill.

  

  BBC has recalled that at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (midnight Brussels time, as January became February there), the EU shrank, the UK was out. Four years later, as the latest solution to one of the knottiest of consequences of Brexit, or at least the flavor of Brexit chosen, is revealed.

• Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Lacalle praises Milei for acquiescing to further dredging of River Plate

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday praised his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei's willingness to cooperate in further dredging the River Plate at the Port of Montevideo from 13 to 14 meters. The previous administrations of Argentine Presidents Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández (2015-2023) considered that these works would leave the port of Buenos Aires in a disadvantageous position. Negotiations in this regard started in 2013 under Presidents Tabaré Vázquez and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

• Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 10:41 UTC

  Peru: Montesinos given 19-year sentence concurrent with time served

  

  Former Peruvian strongman Vladimiro Montesinos was sentenced to 19 years in prison Wednesday for his involvement in a 1992 massacre under then-President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) who has been banned for 9 months from leaving the country.