Politics

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 20:53 UTC

  Chávez's daughter praises CFK in Tegucigalpa

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and María Gabriela Chávez Contreras, daughter of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez Frías, met Wednesday at the National University of Honduras, where the former Argentine head of state delivered a speech under the title “Peoples always return”.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 19:53 UTC

  WaPo tells Americans not to fret over local inflation: Argentina is worse off

  

  An article published by The Washington Post highlights Argentina's inflationary tradition and suggests US citizens should take a look at the South American country's “way of economic life” after prices locally rose around 7% in one year.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Second oil spill spotted near Repsol refinery in Peru

  

  A new oil spill has been spotted off the multi-buoy Terminal 2 of Repsol's La Pampilla refinery, Peru's Navy and the Environmental Assessment and Enforcement Agency (OEFA) reported Tuesday.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Peru's FM states Bolivia's access to the sea already provided for in treaty

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday released a statement regarding Bolivia's potential access to the Pacific Ocean, following remarks from President Pedro Castillo in a radio interview with CNN in which the head of state sparked controversies over that sensitive issue.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Young woman calls Bolsonaro a “farce”

  

  A 19-year-old girl Wednesday upset Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at his usual greeting before followers at the Alvorada Palace to recite a biblical verse, demand answers, and call him “a farce,” something which visibly irritated him.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Argentina endorses request that Venezuela investigates human rights violations

  

  Argentina Wednesday supported from its role within the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) previous requests filed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who insisted the Venezuelan administration of Nicolás Maduro needed to investigate the numerous reports on violations and hold the perpetrators accountable.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:21 UTC

  COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing Brazil's health system to its limits

  

  Brazil's National Council of Secretaries of Health (Conass) Wednesday reported that intensive care units (ICUs) at eight States were full up to over 80% of their capacity with COVID-19 patients and that the situation was likely to worsen in the coming days.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:18 UTC

  British PM shall not resign despite Labour and popular pressure

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday refused to resign despite calls from the opposition that such a move was necessary after scandals hit 10 Downing Street.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:15 UTC

  Singapore signs treaty to join Pacific Alliance as an associated state

  

  The Asian nation of Singapore Wednesday became the first country to join the Pacific Alliance as an Associated State to the group made up of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 14:28 UTC

  Uruguay and Chile, the least corrupt “in a corrupt continent”

  

  Corruption in Latin America is one of the most notorious problems on the region's agenda after a decade of major judicial operations that exposed corruption schemes involving governments and companies alike. According to Transparency International (TI), corruption has been entrenched in Latin America for more than a decade with little progress and many setbacks in terms of democracy and human rights.