Politics

Thursday, July 21st 2022 - 06:51 UTC
And then they were 2: Sunak and Truss

Following Wednesday's round of voting, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss finally made it to the showdown against former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak in the contest for Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister.
Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:55 UTC
Despite Mercosur summit in Paraguay, Bolsonaro keeps cutting tariffs for critical inputs of industry and medicine

Although Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is not attending the Mercosur summit in Paraguay, his administration continues with its policy of unilaterally reducing the common external tariff. In this case Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber Executive Committee approved the reduction of import tariffs on thirteen items, including medicines, medical equipment, printing ink and polypropylene resin. Tariffs were cut to zero or reduced to 2%, from 2% and 6,5%.
Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:39 UTC
EU eyes CELAC for food; Mercosur “a more complicated issue”

Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, has said Latin America would host a CELAC meeting sometime next year, but admitted that ratifying the 2019 trade agreement with Mercosur was “a more complicated issue.”
Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:35 UTC
A decommissioned C 130 Hercules to honor Argentine combatants fallen in the Falklands' war

A decommissioned Hercules C 130 from the Argentine Air Force and which was involved in combat, transport, surveillance, and supply operations during the Falkland Islands war has arrived at Pilar, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, where there is a monument to the fallen during the 1982 conflict.
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.