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Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:00:00 GMT
Congressman from Argentina's ruling FdT want bank deposits nationalized, Perón style
National Deputy José Luis Martiarena from the province of Jujuy's Frente de Todos party of President Alberto Fernández Thursday submitted a bill whereby bank deposits would be nationalized “to reform the financial system....

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:48:00 GMT
Argentina to strike all restrictions on flights as of next month
Argentina's Interior Minister Wado De Pedro, Friday announced that effective November 1 airlines interested in operating in the country will be able to do so with no coronavirus restrictions in place.

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:38:00 GMT
Brazil, 20th judicial win for former leader Lula
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday achieved his 20th judicial victory after yet another case against him was dismissed due to lack of evidence.

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:23:00 GMT
Uruguayan President's rating of approval back on its way up, poll says
Popular support to Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou, which had been declining in the past few months, has resumed its upward trend and grew 5% since July's, a study conducted by pollsters Factum has shown.

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:50:00 GMT
Chile lifts curfew; quarantine only for travelers and other specific situations
Chilean authorities have lifted the curfew imposed over a year and a half ago as a part of the sanitary measures against the COVID-19 pandemic effective Oct. 1, it was announced.

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:53:00 GMT
Irregular migration and drug trafficking alongside Bolivia-Chile border keeps drawing concern
While Chile's presidential delegate at Tarapacá, Miguel Ángel Quezada, accused Bolivia on Thursday of "not making any effort" to prevent the crossing of irregular migrants through the common border, authorities from both coun...

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:33:00 GMT
Fear reigns among Venezuelans as six more zeros are to be removed from local currency
Unrest reigned Thursday among Venezuelans as Friday's monetary reconversion which will remove six zeros from “sovereign bolivars” loomed over, prompting the exchange rate with the US dollar to skyrocket.

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:12:00 GMT
FIG and BAS work together on forthcoming Antarctic summer research season
Despite the global pandemic, the strong strategic relationship between the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has gone from strength to strength. Following the success of the previous austral s...

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:02:00 GMT
Embarrassing private messages by Brazilian President disclosed
Brazilian news outlets Thursday revealed embarrassing private Whatsapp messages from President Jair Bolsonaro which included homophobic remarks and words of praise for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:44:00 GMT
At least 118 dead in Ecuadorian prison riot involving Mexican drug cartels
Ecuador's police was still fighting to control a jailhouse in Guayaquil after a riot by inmates led to clashes that have so far resulted in 118 deaths in what turned out to be one of Latin America's worst prison massacres.



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