Politics

Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 23:21 UTC
UN Secretary-General arrives in Colombia for 5th anniversary of peace deal with FARC

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived Tuesday in Bogotá to participate in the ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of the peace agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC Guerrillas.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 19:43 UTC
Major Buenos Aires newspaper attacked with Molotov cocktails

Hooded attackers launched Molotov cocktails late Monday at the building of the Buenos Aires leading daily Clarín, but no injuries or material damage were reported other than fuel stains and traces of a small fire.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:55 UTC
UK MPs suggest asylum seekers crossing the English Channel be sent to Falklands

According to UK news reports, the British government is becoming quite desperate about the asylum seekers braving the English Channel, a record 25,000 so far this year, and all sorts of radical measures to contain the increase in arrivals are being considered, including sending the refugees south to the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:29 UTC
Florencio Randazzo makes it to the House after edging Libertarian candidate

Former Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo finally made it through to the House of Deputies on his own Vamos con Vos front after the final vote count ended up granting him the votes he needed to snatch the seat from the Libertarians, who had already secured victories for José Luis Espert and Carolina Piparo.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:28 UTC
Nicaragua's regime arrests yet another dissident voice

Nicaragua's regime has arrested 79-year-old former diplomat Edgar Parrales. The former priest was one of the few critical voices still active within the Central American country, where dozens of opposition leaders have been either placed under arrest or gone into exile.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:04 UTC
Peru's Congressional Committee declares Evo persona non grata

A Committee within Peru's Congress Monday agreed to declare former Bolivian President Evo Morales a persona non grata for meddling with internal politics, it was announced.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 08:57 UTC
Electronic ballot box malfunction strikes Brazil's third-way party internal voting

Brazil's Social Democracy Party (PSDB) of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) has suspended “for technical reasons” over the weekend the selection process to appoint a candidate to run in the October 2022 presidential elections.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 08:54 UTC
“Argentine Bolsonaro” not quite so after taking second dose of Covid-19 vax

Far-right Deputy-elect Javier Milei, whom many had likened to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has been pictured taking what turned out to be his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, very much to the disappointment of his constituency who had hoped the soon-to-be MP would become a defender against a possible drive to make vaccination compulsory.
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 08:15 UTC
Montana Senator presents bill to suspend Brazilian beef sales to the United States

United States Senator for the cattle breeding state of Montana, Jon Tester has presented a bill to suspend beef imports from Brazil. The congressman alleges that the Brazilian authorities were slow to notify the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) about the two cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow disease”, confirmed in September, and which led to an agreed ban con beef exports to China.
Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 23:05 UTC
Kast is very much anti-Argentine, says ambassador

Argentina's Ambassador in Santiago, Rafael Bielsa, said right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast, who finished first in Sunday's elections was an anti-Argentine Pinochetist “that dares speak its name” and likened him to former US President Donald Trump and current Brazilian head of state Jair Bolsonaro.