Politics

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:40 UTC

  Argentina: Impeachment jury votes to sack successful anti-corruption prosecutor

  

  The anti-corruption prosecutor of the Argentine province of Entre Ríos who got former Governor Sergio Uribarri sentenced to 8 years in jail has been impeached out of office for failing to excuse herself from the case despite having very close ties with one of the defendants.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:36 UTC

  At least 22 dead in Rio favela latest shooting

  

  Brazilian police confirmed Tuesday afternoon that at least 22 people were killed during a raid in the Vila Cruzeiro favela, in Penha, in northern Rio de Janeiro.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:33 UTC

  Mapuche women deliver longest weaving in the world

  

  A total of 426 Mapuche women who were summoned a year ago for the task have come up with a loom almost 1 kilometer long to promote a Weltanschauung in which Chile's most numerous indigenous community is represented.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro angry at YPFB for selling Argentina the gas that was for Brazil

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained that Bolivia's state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petróliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) funneled 30% of the gas that was to be sold to Brazil and sent it to Argentina as a part of an “orchestrated plan” against him and added Petrobras was behind it.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:33 UTC

  UK Foreign office releases paper on Business Risks in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou is currently on a four-day visit to Great Britain, invited by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. According to Uruguayan officials, the main purpose of the visit is to promote trade and investments and reinforce the strong historic ties between the two countries.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Argentina: Domestic Trade Secretary resigns over ministerial rearrangement

  

  Argentina's Domestic Trade Secretary Roberto Feletti has turned in his resignation after his office was relocated from the Ministry of Productive Development to the Ministry of Economy.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Powell takes oath as Fed's chair second term; first African American woman joins US central bank

  

  Jerome H. Powell on Monday took the oath of office for his second term as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Vice-Chair Lael Brainard administered Chair Powell's oath in the press briefing room of the Board's Martin Building.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Defense ministers to create “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group”

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Monday welcomed his Bolivian counterpart Edmundo Novillo Aguilar in Buenos Aires. During the meeting, an agreement to create the so-called “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group” was signed.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Eichmann audios recorded in Argentina to be released

  

  An Israeli documentary to be released shortly features voice recordings of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Mossad in the early 1960s in San Fernando, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  Brazil sacks Petrobras CEO yet again

  

  Brazil's Government has replaced yet again the chairman of the state-run oil company Petrobras in which private investors also have a share.