NTSB report reveals Boeing knew of fatal defect in UPS plane that killed 14 in Louisville

A report released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board reveals that Boeing was aware of a structural defect in the engine mounting system that caused a UPS cargo plane to crash... Read more »

What’s in a name? | Buenos Aires Times

Provincias Unidas deputies have opened up a wider issue when they formally requested the new Radical party chairman Leonel Chiarella to alter the label of the Unión Cívica Radical caucus on the... Read more »

Machado’s peace prize gift shows she’s betting on a future with Trump

For María Corina Machado, everything was riding on this meeting with Donald Trump. As Venezuela’s main opposition figure — and the woman whose party is widely accepted to have won its 2024... Read more »

Bus vandalism in Brasília: Urbi’s fleet vandalized after dismissals for just cause

Civil Police are investigating the vandalism of a bus in the Federal District following a dismissal for cause at the Urbi company, according to the Mobility Secretariat. A bus vandalism that affected public transport... Read more »

Mother of Elon Musk’s child sues his AI company over Grok deepfake images | Elon Musk News

Ashley St Clair, mother of Musk’s son, Romulus, sues over ‘pain and mental distress’ caused by fake AI images generated by Grok chatbot. The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: January 9 to 16

  LAST YEAR’S INFLATION 31.5% Inflation was confirmed as having risen for the fourth month running Tuesday when the INDEC national statistics bureau posted 2.8 percent for December, the second-highest figure of... Read more »

Brazil’s Lula hails historic EU-Mercosur deal ahead of no-show at its signing :: WRAL.com

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday celebrated the expected signing of the free trade agreement between... Read more »

‘We’re in danger of extinction’: can Bolivia’s ‘water people’ survive a rising tide of salt and migration? | Bolivia

In the small town of Chipaya, everything is dry. Only a few people walk along the sandy streets, and many houses look abandoned – some secured with a padlock. The wind is... Read more »

In Argentina, Trump tests whether money, not force, can win over Latin America

The toppling of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro offered the clearest sign yet of Donald Trump’s intention to reassert US dominance in the Americas, but it’s Argentina that holds clues about how successful the... Read more »

BNDES approves R$ 6,4 billion in credit for biofuels in 2025 and expands financing for ethanol and biomethane in Brazil with a focus on clean energy

The National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) approved R$ 6,4 billion in credit in 2025 intended for the production of biofuels, establishing the largest volume ever recorded in the institution’s... Read more »