Politics

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:53 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego team planning Falklands trip to assess the economic impact of UK 'usurpation' of the Islands

  

  The economic impact of the “illegal” occupation of the Falklands Islands by the British, is to be analyzed by the Economic Development and Innovation Institute from the Argentine University of Tierra del Fuego, in coordination with other tertiary education centers both public and private.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Two coups doomed to fail before they began and the power of big lies

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Could there be anything more ridiculous than last week’s failed coup attempt in Peru?

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Director of Brazilian Highway Police sacked

  

  The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday announced the dismissal of Brazilian Highway Police Director Silvinei Vasques for “administrative improbity” for his actions or inactions in the aftermath of the Oct. 30 runoff which saw Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva elected to return to the Planalto Palace on Jan. 1.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Peru's Congress initially agrees to shorten presidential term

  

  Peru's Congress Tuesday approved a bill to bring forward the general elections to April 2024 after it had rejected a similar initiative last week, thus fueling additional unrest nationwide.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Chile and EU agree on a new trade association which eliminates most tariffs and promotes investment

  

  The European Union and Chile reached an understanding to modernize their successful twenty years old trade association agreement, which is part of the EU strategy to diversify its suppliers of critical commodities for the green transition and at the same time cut its dependence from China.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:14 UTC

  Biden, Lasso discuss deepening bilateral ties between US and Ecuador

  

  US President Joseph Biden Monday told his Ecuadorian colleague Guillermo Lasso at the White House that his country was interested in strengthening ties with one of its staunchest South American allies.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Former concentration camp secretary given 2-year suspended sentence

  

  A former secretary at a nazi concentration camp in Poland where at least 10,505 people were murdered during World War II was handed down a two-year suspended sentence Tuesday by the Itzehoe state court in Schleswig-Holstein state Tuesday for her involvement in the crimes.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 20:09 UTC

  Uruguay's economy growing above global pace, Lacalle says

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said that while the world's economy would grow by 2.9%, that of his country would do so by over 5% by the end of 2022.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 20:03 UTC

  Uruguay finds successor for Deputy Foreign Minister post

  

  Although President Luis Lacalle Pou said that it would take a while to find a replacement for Carolina Ache Batlle as Deputy Foreign Minister, the Ciudadanos faction of Uruguay's Colorado Party has already come up with the name of Nicolás Albertoni for the post.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 20:01 UTC

  Putin seeks closeness to South America

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a telephone conversation Tuesday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Agencia Brasil reported.