United States

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentina rejects naval exercise in Brazil because of Falklands' HMS Forth

  

  Argentina has dropped out of this year's UNITAS annual naval exercises sponsored by the United States, with the participation of South American and other extra-region naval units, which are currently taking place in the Atlantic organized by Brazil.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 18:46 UTC

  Biden says “COVID-19 pandemic is over”

  

  US President Joseph Biden said during a TV interview aired late Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic was over. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,” Biden said, thus sparking a series of uproars from within scientific and politician communities.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Puerto Rico powerless as Hurricane Fiona makes landfall

  

  Puerto Rico has been left without electricity as Hurricane Fiona made landfall with winds of up to 160.9 kilometers per hour, amid residents fearing an encore of the devastation left by Hurricane Maria in 2017. US President Joseph Biden declared a state of emergency on the island.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  US, China, India, UK, Russia, the largest military spenders in 2021, SIPRI report

  

  World military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching an all-time high of US$ 2.1 trillion. This was the seventh consecutive year that spending increased, according to the latest data on military spending published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Biden: We all owe Queen Elizabeth something

  

  US President Joseph Biden said during this weekend in London that “we all owe something” to Queen Elizabeth II, who reminded him of his own mother.

• Saturday, September 17th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Will the Federal Reserve strangle Latin America again?

  

  By Ernesto Talvi (*) – In the 1980s, the Federal Reserve’s dramatic interest-rate hikes led to a lost decade of economic growth in highly indebted Latin American countries. Today, however, the US itself is highly leveraged, which will make the Fed hesitant to pursue measures that imply severe collateral damage elsewhere.

• Saturday, September 17th 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Ambassador Stanley discusses strategic issues at Casa Rosada

  

  United States Ambassador to Buenos Aires Marc Stanley was welcomed Friday at Casa Rosada by Strategic Affairs Secretary Mercedes Marcó del Pont to discuss matters of bilateral interest.

• Saturday, September 17th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Bolivia, Venezuela not joining US efforts against drug trafficking, Biden says

  

  US President Joseph Biden has issued yet another declaration including Venezuela and Bolivia among the countries that do not fight drug trafficking.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 19:07 UTC

  Russian reaction might include nukes, top US politician fears

  

  A former top US State Department official Tuesday said Russia could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine after sustaining some heavy losses over the past day or two in its war with Ukraine.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Blinken offers Mexico to join US semiconductor program

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Mexico City Monday and extended an invitation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to participate in a semiconductor and electromobility investment package announced by the Joseph Biden administration worth US$ 50 billion.