Tag: humanitarian flight

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Trump accuses Venezuelan president Maduro of blocking humanitarian evacuation flights for US citizens

  

  The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is blocking US citizens in the country from leaving, rebuffing efforts by Washington to arrange humanitarian evacuation flights, a State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday.

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:58 UTC

  Falklands' return humanitarian flight: ample media coverage to the cancelling by Argentina

  

  The Argentine government decision to impede a return humanitarian flight from Montevideo to Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands received ample coverage in the Uruguayan and Argentine media.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Colombian families abandoned at Sao Paulo airport; no humanitarian flights from Bogotá

  

  More than two months after the coronavirus pandemic triggered worldwide lockdowns, much of the world is gradually reopening. But Latin America remains highly isolated by travel restrictions across the region.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 10:54 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Climate delays evacuation of passengers from Australian cruise stranded in Montevideo

  

  The last passengers residing on an Australian ocean liner, anchored off Montevideo for more than two weeks with cases of COVID-19 on board, will be evacuated to the United States by a medical chartered flight, announced on Tuesday the American embassy in Uruguay.