Politics

• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 14:45 UTC

  Negotiations for a Falklands third humanitarian project confirmed by UK ambassador in Argentina

  

  Kirsty Hayes, British ambassador in Buenos Aires admitted that relations between Argentina and UK have been “complex”, and London has always made efforts to improve them, but ”there will be no sovereignty discussions on Falklands' sovereignty because what is most important is not our (British) perception or that of Argentina but the Falkland Islanders opinion.”

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• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 13:30 UTC

  South Georgia: Darwin Plus Funding for Environment Schemes, 2024

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is proud to promote and encourage science that contributes to developing and upholding best-practice environmental management and that supports the active management and good governance of the Territory.

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• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Mondino seeking to soothe ties with China after Milei's campaign announcements

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino is on a crusade in China to discuss bilateral issues with an economic giant with whom President Javier Milei had pledged during his campaign that he wanted no ties. “Not only will I not do business with China, I will not do business with any communist,” Milei announced repeatedly on his way to Casa Rosada.

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• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Unauthorized US Coast Guard ship sparks controversy in Montevideo

  

  The US Coast Guard cutter James docked in the port of Montevideo Friday sparking a controversy among local politicians because the executive had forgotten to require the congressional acquiescence needed for the presence of any foreign-flagged military unit in the country.

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• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

  Referendum regarding social security to go ahead in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's labor union Pit-Cnt has garnered the number of signatures required by law; therefore, the social security reform will be subject to a referendum on Oct. 27, simultaneously with the election of a new president. The grouping appeared before Parliament on Saturday with 430,023 signatures to support its request.

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• Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 13:37 UTC

  Chile in mourning after murder of 3 Carabineros officers

  

  Three non-commissioned officers of Chile's Carabineros Police were killed early Saturday in an ambush in the town of Cañete, near the city of Concepción, in the Bío Bío region some 500 kilometers south of Santiago. The crime, which is still under investigation, shocked the entire country. President Gabriel Boric Font promised it would not go unpunished and other officials even called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.

• Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 12:36 UTC

  Milei needs to change the course of his government, warns CFK

  

  Former two-time Argentine head of State Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) made a rentrée under the limelight Saturday at the opening of the President Néstor Kirchner Stadium in Quilmes, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in her first public appearance since completing her first term as vice president on Dec. 9 last year. She seized the opportunity to criticize the Libertarian administration of Javier Milei for the unnecessary hardships imposed on the people.

• Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Military presence “at the appropriate level to ensure the defense of the Falklands,” UK MoD

  

  Following Argentina's purchase of US-made F-16 jets from Denmark, concerns were raised in Parliament to a Secretary of Defense regarding the UK's defense readiness in the South Atlantic, more precisely the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

  Peru's PM calls for an end to the “political noise” that earned the country bad reviews

  

  Peru's Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén urged his countrymen to hush down the “political noise” that erupted following the decision by the credit rating agency Standard 6 Poor (S&P) to downgrade the South American country from BBB to BBB-.

• Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  Repair ship RFA Diligence, involved in Falklands and Gulf wars, sold to Turkey

  

  The Portsmouth media has reported that RFA Diligence, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship previously involved in the Falklands and Gulf conflicts, has arrived in Turkey after being sold for recycling by the UK Defense Equipment Sales Authority (DESA).