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Q24N (EFE) Argentina reacted on Wednesday to the first “shock” measures announced by the government of Javier Milei with calm in the alternative currency markets following the sudden 50% devaluation of the official exchange rate, and with steep price increases in supermarkets and gas stations. The new president of the […]

Q24N — On Monday the government of Panama made official the arrival of the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE) -Central American Institute of Business Administration – to that country. The transfer to Panama occurs after the main headquarters in Nicaragua was confiscated by the government of Daniel Ortega. […]

Q24N — Argentine companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange fell on Monday, a day after the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, was sworn in with a speech to citizens in which he promised “a new era” for the country. South American and a difficult period of adjustments. […]

Q24N (EFE) The United States announced on Monday that it banned the entry of 300 Guatemalans, including 100 members of Congress, for “undermining democracy” in the Central American country. The spokesman for the U.S. State Department, Matthew Miller, condemned in a statement “the antidemocratic actions” of the Public Ministry of […]

Q24N — The 53-year-old libertarian economist Javier Milei was sworn in as Argentina’s president on Sunday. Milei says he plans to tackle the economic crisis by radically restructuring the country. Image: Agustin Marcarian/REUTERS He has vowed there will be no “half-measures” as he confronts decades of overspending, debt and convoluted […]

Q24N (VOA) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy witnessed the swearing-in on Sunday of Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is greeted by Argentina’s President Javier Milei following Milei’s swearing-in ceremony, outside the National Congress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 10, 2023. It was the Ukrainian leader’s first official […]

Q24N — Prosecutors in Guatemala asked a court Friday to strip President-elect Bernardo Arevalo of his immunity, saying there could be enough irregularities to annul the election results, a move the Organization of American States (OAS) called part of “a coup attempt.” Prosecutors in Guatemala asked a court Friday to […]

Q24N – Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro who was so opposed to their policies that she became a CIA double agent, died of natural causes in a Miami, Florida, hospital on Monday, Univision confirmed. She was 90. Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel Castro, talks to […]

Q24N (Associated Press) Lawyer Isabel Lazo’s jobs are being systematically canceled by Nicaragua’s increasingly repressive government. Image for illustrative purposes Lazo worked at a university before the government of President Daniel Ortega closed it. She now is employed at a nongovernmental organization that she fears will soon be shuttered too. […]

Q24N (VOA) Venezuela has turned up the volume on its insistence that it has a rightful claim to Essequibo, a region encompassing the majority of the territory of Guyana, its neighbor to the east. However, the government of President Nicolás Maduro has little to no support from its regional neighbors […]