Politics

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 14:38 UTC

  Chilean congress has two years to rewrite a new Fisheries bill

  

  The Chilean Lower House approved a bill repealing the “Fisheries Law”, better known as the “Longueira Law” since he was the great sponsor and defender of the legislation when he was the Economy minister. The repeal initiative received 117 votes, no nays, and twenty abstentions. The bill now begins to be discussed in the Chilean Senate.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Uruguayan Central Bank to commemorate Andes survivors

  

  Uruguay's Central Bank is to mint 5,000 coins to commemorate the so-called Miracle of the Andes, the survival of 16 passengers of Air Force transport Flight 571 aircraft that crashed on its way to Chile Oct. 13 1972.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  Brazil's inflation for July 2022 best in 42 years

  

  Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics Tuesday released its monthly price index report for the month of July, which returned negative figures, in line with Central Bank projections that inflation was slowing down.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Mexico: AMLO announcement dubbed “a soft coup”

  

  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday came under heavy criticism when he announced that he would transfer the National Guard to the scope of the Armed Forces, which was regarded as a “soft” coup d'état.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Uruguay's Parliament passes defense agreement with China

  

  Uruguay's Congress Tuesday approved the implementation of joint defense efforts with China agreed upon in 2019, when the two countries pledged to increase cooperation between their respective Ministries of Defense, “within the limits of their competencies.”

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Mapuche groups claim responsibility for yet another attack in Chile

  

  Mapuche violence is reaching unprecedented levels after the Arauco-Malleco Coordinating Committee (CAM) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an arson attack against a forestry site in the commune of Lumaco, in the Araucanía region, 700 kilometers south of Santiago.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Venezuelans demand release of Emtrasur's 747

  

  Scores of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Tuesday staged a rally across the streets of Caracas to demand that Argentina's judiciary releases Emtrasur's Boeing 747-300 cargo aircraft seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:38 UTC

  Uruguayan judge who halted vaccination under scrutiny

  

  Uruguay's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) has launched an inquiry against Judge Alejandro Recarey for his July 7 decision to halt vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged 5 to 13 to determine which course of action to take regarding the magistrate's future.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:32 UTC

  Bolsonaro says voting for Lula is like hiring traffickers to fight drug dealing

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro likened his predecessor and electoral rival Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the latter's running mate to notorious local drug traffickers.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:22 UTC

  Nagasaki Mayor launches “Never Again!” cry

  

  Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and other speakers during Tuesday's ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the second atom bomb dropped on Japanese soil by the United States at the end of World War II insisted that theirs should be the last tragedy ever of that nature.