Politics

• Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:20 UTC

  1982 South Atlantic War: Crippa launches fundraiser to bring back his plane

  

  Retired Argentine Navy pilot Owen Crippa launched this week a fundraiser to bring back from the United States the Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339 with which he attacked the HMS Argonaut on May 21, 1982, during a reconnaissance mission amid the South Atlantic war over the Falkland Islands. He reportedly needs US$ 50,000.

• Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:13 UTC

  Colombia: Petro signs free college education decree

  

  After mistakenly claiming that Argentina had expelled some 20,000 Colombian university students, President Gustavo Petro upped the ante and decreed that such studies would henceforth be free in his country.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 11:33 UTC

  Argentina: Beneficiaries of social aid found not to be in need

  

  Argentina's Human Capital Ministry on Friday ordered the suppression of 4,588 social assistance plans whose beneficiaries were found to have incurred expenses incompatible with such assistance, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 11:26 UTC

  Violence mounting regionally, Uruguayan police chief says

  

  Uruguayan Police Director José Manuel Azambuya said Friday that the growth in violence recorded recently in the South American country was of regional proportions. “We have seen that violence has been growing, not only in our country but it is regional,” Azambuya maintained during a press conference in Montevideo.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 11:16 UTC

  Petro opens arms to free-ride students targeted by Argentine bill

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Friday announced on social media that his government would assist some 20,000 nationals from his country who might be affected by Argentine President Javier Milei's proposed austerity measures regarding spending cuts including an end to tuition-free studies for non-resident foreigners.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  Argentina's Supreme Court to review Milei's decree in February

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) Friday agreed to review the constitutionality of President Javier Milei's recent emergency decree (DNU) deregulating most of the country's economy but announced it will not happen until after the Jan. 2024 Judiciary recess

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  UK says Venezuela's military maneuvers “unjustified”

  

  The United Kingdom said Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro's decision to up his country's military readiness over the Essequibo dispute with Guyana was “unjustified.” The Bolivarian forces deployed over 5,000 troops in response to the arrival in the area of the Royal Navy's HMS Trent.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 09:33 UTC

  Icebreaker ARA Irízar sets sail on Antarctic Campaign

  

  The Argentine Navy's icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar set sail from Buenos Aires this week to do her part in the 2023/2024 Antarctic Summer Campaign after a ceremony presided over by Defense Minister Luis Petri.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 07:17 UTC

  BFSAI commander visits Radar Units in Falklands Mount Kent, Mount Alice and Byron Heights

  

  The Commander of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands stationed at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands, Brigadier Dan Duff has done the round of the troops under his command as part of the Christmas message.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 06:33 UTC

  Minister Rutley's second visit to the Falklands in a month: big changes in South Atlantic fisheries policies?

  

  Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Caribbean, and Overseas Territories David Rutley has been to the Falkland Islands again this week, the second visit in a month, and in the meantime this did not prevent him from on December 10, to represent the British government in Buenos Aires for the taking office ceremony of Argentine extreme liberal president, Javier Milei.