Stories for December 12th 2023

Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:59 UTC
Macri favors Mercosur single currency

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri said in Brazil he supported the idea of a single currency for all Mercosur countries because if the bloc was “serious” it needed “the same rules and the same currency, like the eurozone.”
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:53 UTC
Man arrested for throwing bottle at Milei

Buenos Aires Federal Judge Ariel Lijo issued a warrant for the arrest of a man suspected of having thrown a bottle at President Javier Milei as his motorcade in a convertible car was heading from Congress to Casa Rosada midway through the inauguration. The object ended up hurting one of the guards, it was reported.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:51 UTC
More than 320 cases of equine encephalomyelitis detected in 7 Argentine provinces

Argentine health authorities have confirmed the detection of over 320 cases of equine encephalomyelitis, a malady that is transmitted through mosquito bites and is spreading rapidly nationwide and also onto neighboring Uruguay.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:44 UTC
UK and Chile signed a five year Antarctica Cooperation Agreement

Foreign Office minister for the Americas, the Caribbean, and British Overseas Territories, David Rutley, has been quite busy in his areas of influence. At the end of October, he visited Peru to commemorate two hundred years of close relations between Britain and the Andean country. Rutley later travelled to Santiago, where he also had a busy agenda given UK's and the Royal Navy strong alliance with Chile.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:41 UTC
“Britain has manipulated the principle of self-determination in the Falkland Islands”

“If there is a people who are victims of colonialism, to whom the principle of self-determination can be applied, it is the Argentine people,” says Facundo D. Rodriguez (*). The following is a letter Mr. Rodriguez sent to The Guardian in reply to the piece by columnist Simon Jenkins, “Argentine firebrand president elect Javier Milei is right in one thing, British sovereignty of the Falklands must end.”
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:34 UTC
US Southern Command chief lands in Paraguay

US Southern Command chief four-star General Laura Richardson landed in Asunción Monday evening to participate in the celebrations of 80 years of military cooperation and to strengthen the security ties between the United States and Paraguay.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:22 UTC
Presidents of Venezuela and Guyana prepare for Thursday's talks

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro insisted Monday that next Thursday's talks in St Vicent and the Grenadines between him and his Guyanese colleague Irfaan Ali were the direct result of the Dec. 3 referendum and, hence, an achievement of the Venezuelan people.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:13 UTC
Essequibo conflict: Brazil sending observer to Maduro-Ali meeting

The Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula a Silva shall be sending a delegation headed by former Foreign Minister and current presidential advisor on international affairs Celso Amorim to Thursday's meeting between the leaders of Guyana and Venezuelan in St Vincent and the Grenadines to discuss the Guiana Essequiba issue, it was reported in Brasilia.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:10 UTC
Change of skipper for the Royal Navy Ice Patrol

After 20 months and 54,500nm, Captain Maryla Ingham RN has handed over Command of the Ice Patrol HMS Protector to Captain Tom Weaver OBE RN in the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:09 UTC
Milei wants to appoint his rabbi friend as next ambassador to Israel

Argentine President Javier Milei confirmed he intentds to appoint Rabbi Axel Wahnish as the South American country's next ambassador to Israel in addition to moving the mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it was reported in Buenos Aires.