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'Perfect storm' hits Argentina's heart health amid Milei adjustment

‘Perfect storm’ hits Argentina’s heart health amid Milei adjustment

Ada, an 83-year-old Argentine woman, had to wait six months to get an appointment to undergo surgery for a worsened heart obstruction. due to severe anemia due to lack of supplies and endless procedures that could have cost him his life. Cases like Ada’s are repeated in the midst of the profound spending adjustment promoted ...

Italy about to ease proposed 42% tax on crypto trading

Italy about to ease proposed 42% tax on crypto trading

The government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is likely to approve coalition partner’s proposal to soften a mooted tax hike on cryptocurrency tradingaccording to people with knowledge of the matter. La Liga, a junior partner in Meloni’s coalition, has tabled an amendment to limit the increase to 28%, compared to 42% originally proposed in ...

Chilean environmental regulator will sanction Codelco for emissions violations

Chilean environmental regulator will sanction Codelco for emissions violations

Chile’s environmental regulator said Monday it had filed a serious charge and initiated a sanctioning process against the state copper giant Codelco for the violation of the emissions monitoring system at its Potrerillos smelter. The Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) explained that the data that obtained from continuous emissions monitoring must be in line with ...

Government of Mexico will sign agreement with companies to preserve the basic basket

Government of Mexico will sign agreement with companies to preserve the basic basket

The government of Mexico will sign an agreement this week with producers and marketers of food and personal hygiene products pto preserve the prices of the basic basket, President Claudia Sheinbaum reported this Monday. The agreement continues the so-called Pacic (Package Against Inflation and Famine) that the now former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador launched ...

Vice President of Ecuador is suspended from office in the run-up to the 2025 elections

Vice President of Ecuador is suspended from office in the run-up to the 2025 elections

The Ministry of Labor of Ecuador temporarily suspended Vice President Verónica Abad from officejust three months before the February elections of next year in which President Daniel Noboa will seek re-election. According to the resolution – dated Friday, but released on Saturday – the official, who is also the South American country’s ambassador to Israel, ...

Biden and Trump to meet Wednesday to discuss presidential transition

Biden and Trump to meet Wednesday to discuss presidential transition

President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday for their first post-election meeting, launching the transition of power in the United States that will be completed in January. They will meet in the Oval Office at 11 a.m. at Biden’s invitationWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a ...

Panama faces rain emergency with 65 incidents in the province of Chiriquí

Panama faces rain emergency with 65 incidents in the province of Chiriquí

The intense rains that have affected the province of Chiriquí in recent days have generated 65 incidents, forcing the Panamanian government to mobilize resources to address the emergency. In the midst of a critical situation, The Minister of Government, Dinoska Montalvo, headed a ministerial commission that went to the Emergency Operations Center, COE, to closely ...

Peru closes schools to clear Lima streets for the visit of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping

Peru closes schools to clear Lima streets for the visit of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping

Peru’s government ordered millions of schoolchildren to stay home next week to maintain the streets of Lima clear for visiting world leaders. US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are among those in attendance to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, or Apec. In a decree published in the Official Gazette on Friday, the ...

Relief at the top of the CNMV after the appointment of Buenaventura as secretary

Relief at the top of the CNMV after the appointment of Buenaventura as secretary

The appointment of Rodrigo Buenaventura as the new secretary general of losco (the world organization of national securities markets commissions) It definitively opens the replacement process at the top of the Cnmv, since until now there was the possibility that the Government could extend the current mandate for two years in accordance with the provisions ...

Latam invests US$7 million for an aeronautical maintenance base in Brazil

Latam invests US$7 million for an aeronautical maintenance base in Brazil

Latam Airlines Brazil announced this Wednesday the highest investment in the last 10 years in its maintenance base, with an amount of about US$7 million in a new specialized hangar for Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, better known as “Latam MRO” (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul). The group’s maintenance and repair center located in São Carlos, in ...