Politics

Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:34 UTC
Bolsonaro tells foreign diplomats about “unreliable” voting machine

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro summoned some 40 foreign ambassadors to his Brasilia residence Monday. During the event, he gave yet another speech on the alleged cracks of the country's electronic voting system.
Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:31 UTC
Paraguay among leading countries in renewable electricity generation

Paraguay and Costa Rica were among the world's leading countries generating electricity from renewable sources, according to a report by the Latin American Energy Organization (Olade) published Tuesday.
Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:27 UTC
CFK insists Argentina's Judiciary needs reforms

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Tuesday released a video on social media underlining the reasons why in her view the country's Judiciary needed major reforms.
Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 09:19 UTC
BBC banned from self-declared independent Somaliland

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been banned from the breakaway region of Somaliland for allegedly undermining the identity and dignity of the self-declared independent nation not recognized by Somalia or any other country, local authorities in control of the area have announced.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:43 UTC
Cubans to keep enduring power cuts in blazing summer

The electricity supply in Cuba's capital city is showing increasingly recurrent cuts as the aging power plants seem to be reaching their point of technical exhaustion.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:40 UTC
Sunak almost certain of showdown berth against Mordaunt or Truss

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak won Tuesday's round of voting within the Conservative Party ranks to appoint a new leader who would also become British Prime Minister.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 22:37 UTC
Founding member of Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers dies

Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo founding member Delia Giovanola passed away Monday at the age of 96, it was announced in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
FT critical of IMF leniency towards perennial defaulter Argentina

A column published by the Financial Times has stressed that the administration of President Alberto Fernández needed “stricter targets” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to keep a “weak and populist” government from running astray.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:27 UTC
Venezuelan gov't speaks of terrorist attack as oil pipe burns

Venezuelan authorities were speaking of a “terrorist attack” Monday after a state-owned gas pipeline went up in smoke Sunday in the country's eastern region.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:25 UTC
Yet another AMIA bombing anniversary and nobody jailed

Relatives of the 85 casualties and the entire Argentine society Monday wondered once again how it could be that 28 years after the bombing of the AMIA welfare Israeli Association nobody has ever been held accountable.