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Nov 21, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
The International Criminal Court's historic arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders highlight its ongoing struggle for enforcement and recognition, with limited convictions and reliance on member states' cooperation.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
China's President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Brazil Wednesday, fresh off a warm reception at summits of the G20 and APEC groups, both held under the cloud of Donald Trump's White House return.
Xi has said he would seek to "further enhance" ties with Brasília when he meets counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, host of the G20 summit that closed in Rio Tuesday.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
A magnificent volley from Lautaro Martínez was enough to give world champions Argentina a 1-0 win over Peru while Brazil were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Uruguay in South American World Cup qualifying on Tuesday.
Argentina remain on top of the CONMEBOL standings with their qualification for the 2026 tournament surely just a matter of time.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
Brazilian police said they arrested four soldiers on Tuesday over an alleged plot to assassinate the then President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a 2022 "coup."
The four "were arrested in Rio, where they were participating in the security operation for the G20 leaders' meeting," a federal police source told AFP, adding that a police officer was also taken into custody.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Leticia Pineda |Javier Tovar |Leila Macor |Sam Yockey
Latin America can expect closer scrutiny from US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who is expected to take a tougher approach towards the leftist governments of Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, analysts say.
Highly critical of communism and the left at large, Rubio will likely seek closer ties to the libertarian governments of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador and Javier Milei of Argentina instead.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday urged Europe to push Moscow "harder" towards what he described as a "just peace," in a speech to the European Parliament marking 1,000 days since the start of Russia's invasion.
Addressing EU lawmakers gathered in Brussels for an extraordinary plenary session via video link, Zelenskyy thanked the 27-nation bloc for its support during the conflict, while also spurring it to do more.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
The Armenian Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires buzzed with a palpable mix of excitement and anticipation. A sold-out crowd had gathered on a Saturday evening for a screening of a powerful film that is as extraordinary as it is affecting.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Sam Yockey
Blasts outside the Supreme Court in the capital Brasilia are being treated as a "terrorist act," federal police director Andrei Passos Rodrigues said Thursday.
The two explosions, set off by a man who died during a failed attack late Wednesday, could have also been a violent attempt to overthrow "democratic rule of law," Rodrigues told a news conference.
"This is not an isolated act," he warned, adding that the attack was planned over a long period.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | Simone Iglesias |Daniel Carvalho |Beatriz Reis |Sam Yockey
In Brazil’s westernmost state of Acre, a gleaming new section of highway is being built to carry President Luiz Iáacio Lula da Silva’s hopes of economic transformation.
It also risks bearing the full weight of Donald Trump’s protectionist policies.
The construction of a bridge and access roads over a 10-kilometre (six-mile) corridor leading to the Peruvian border may seem like a modest project for such a load.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
batimes.com.ar | John Ainger |Sam Yockey
Argentine President Javier Milei’s negotiating team has left Azerbaijan less than four days into the COP29 climate summit, while France’s climate minister said she wouldn’t return to the talks as political tensions rippled through the conference.
The surprise move by Argentina — which was not explained by the country — raised concerns among negotiators at COP29 that the country may follow US president-elect Donald Trump’s threat to exit the landmark 2015 Paris climate deal.
