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Sat, 15 May 2021 18:52:00 GMT
Argentine scientist Kini Roesler wins Whitley Award for nature conservation in Patagonia
In 2009, he had a plane ticket to the United States and everything set as a young biologist to start a PhD on tropical Andean birds. However, Argentine biologist Ignacio “Kini” Roesler, decided to stay at home to investigat...

Sat, 15 May 2021 09:39:00 GMT
Argentine President tells IMF head no more efforts from Argentine people acceptable
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday rounded up his one-week European tour with meetings in Rome with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva and former US Secretary of State John Kerry before ...

Sat, 15 May 2021 09:12:00 GMT
Chile going to polls this weekend to elect Constitutional Convention to replace Pinochet-era text
Chile is about to write another chapter in its history this coming weekend when members of an Assembly to write up a new constitution to replace the one left by the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet are elected.

Sat, 15 May 2021 09:04:00 GMT
Google buys 30-hectare property in Uruguay's Science Park
Google's subsidiary in Uruguay, Eleanor Applications SRL, Friday purchased 30 hectares in the duty-free Science Park in Canelones, where it will install a data centre, it was announced.

Sat, 15 May 2021 09:00:00 GMT
Diplomatic rift with China results in shortage of active ingredient to produce vaccines in Brazil
São Paulo Governor Joao Doria Friday blamed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for a diplomatic crisis with China, which led to the suspension of supplies to manufacturing vaccines against the coronavirus.

Sat, 15 May 2021 08:55:00 GMT
Lula, CFK seal alliance regarding education of future political leaders
Former Argentine President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) and former Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva Friday agreed to join forces for the future of the region.

Sat, 15 May 2021 08:49:00 GMT
Brazil bans entry of foreign travellers from India due to rising number of covid-19 cases
The Brazilian government has banned the entry of travellers from India as a result of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the Asian country, an extra edition of the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette) published o...

Sat, 15 May 2021 04:29:00 GMT
Paraguay-Mexico Chamber of Commerce in process of creation
Paraguayan exports to Mexico in the context of the coronavirus pandemic have grown to such an extent that the Paraguay-Mexico Chamber of Commerce is in the process of being created, it was announced on Friday.

Fri, 14 May 2021 09:31:00 GMT
Brazil could have bought Pfizer vaccines much earlier, but Bolsonaro ignored the offer
Carlos Murillo, general manager for Latin America at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, said Thursday that three offers were made to Brazil during 2020 to supply vaccines against coronavirus, but all were rejected by President Jair Bolson...

Fri, 14 May 2021 09:30:00 GMT
Investor confidence in Uruguay allows for local currency bond issue
Uruguay placed on the market a new 10-year peso bond for the equivalent of US $ 1,166 million at an interest rate of 8.25% per year, reported the Minister of Economy, Azucena Arbeleche. It is the lowest interest rate in the his...



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