South America

Colombian truckers’ strike affects supply of basic products

Published on: September 6, 2024
07:42

Bogotá, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Bogota, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) The setbacks generated in social and economic spheres are increasing in Colombia due to the strike of truckers, caused by the rise in the price of diesel. Truckers have chosen, as a means of protest, the blockade of many of the main roads in the country.

Argentine senators ask to analyze funds for education and SIDE

Published on: September 4, 2024
08:04

Buenos Aires, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) Senators opposed to the Argentine Government are insisting on Wednesday on holding a session to analyze a bill on financing university education and a decree by President Javier Milei on the funds of the Secretariat of Intelligence of the State (SIDE).

Hackers attack Brazilian institutions

Published on: September 4, 2024
07:49

Brasilia, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Court, the Federal Police (PF) and the National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) of Brazil came under cyberattacks since August 29th.

ALBA-TCP condemns confiscation of Venezuelan presidential airplane

Published on: September 4, 2024
07:20

Caracas, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) condemned the decision of the United States to seize the official plane of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.

Magic Johnson considers in Brazil that he is an HIV survivor

Published on: September 3, 2024
11:46

Brasilia, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) The legend of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the main basketball league in the United States, Earvin (Magic) Johnson Jr., considered that he is blessed for surviving the diagnosis of HIV, contracted at the peak of his career.

Violence soars in Ecuadorian city under state of emergency

Published on: September 3, 2024
11:41

Quito, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) Violence soared between Monday night and early this morning in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, where at least five people died as a result of armed attacks.

Hydroelectric power generation falls in Ecuador, blackouts return

Published on: September 3, 2024
11:25

Quito, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) The drought season in Ecuador has reduced to less than half the operation of the country's main hydroelectric plants, while concerns are growing about the return of blackouts.

Argentine workers remain mobilized

Published on: September 3, 2024
07:37

Buenos Aires, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) The State Workers Association (ATE) of Argentina remains in a way of permanent assembly and mobilization with the objective of demanding salary improvements and denouncing a new wave of layoffs in the public administration.

Brazil rescued almost seven thousand people in slave-like conditions

Published on: September 2, 2024
10:26

Brasilia, Sep 2 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian authorities managed to rescue 6,761 people in conditions analogous to slavery in three years, according to the Ministry of Labor and Employment, quoted today by the R7 portal.

Argentine union defines actions after rejecting government’s proposal

Published on: September 2, 2024
07:52

Buenos Aires, Sep 2 (Prensa Latina) The State Workers Association (ATE) of Argentina will hold an emergency meeting after rejecting as insufficient the Government's proposal to increase salaries by only two percent in September, and one percent in October.

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