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Montevideo, April 30th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:17 UTC

    Obama and Trump praise each other and agree on a smooth transition, but tension was evident

    Obama and Trump spent roughly an hour and a half in the Oval Office. The purpose was to facilitate a “successful transition between our presidencies.”

    After savaging President Barack Obama before and during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump met him in person for the first time on Thursday and said he had “great respect” for him. President Barack Obama called his conversation with President-elect Trump excellent.

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

    Dow Jones reverses trend after Trump's victory

    President-elect Donald Trump not so bad for markets after all

    The Dow Jones index climbed more than 300 points (1.5 percent), by the afternoon, coming back from an abrupt 750-point plunge as election results came in. Stock markets reversed overnight losses stemming from the shock of Donald Trump's upset victory and and the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared to what would be a record closing high as investors assimilated the implications of the Republican return to the White House.

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:00 UTC

    Argentine agro-industrial exports up 25% this year

    Minister Ricardo Buryaile and Argentina's new agricultural scenario

    It was in the first three quarters of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015, the Argentine Ministry of Agroindustry reported during the Agricultural Perspectives Conference at the Buenos Aires Cereal Exchange.

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 07:52 UTC

    Alas buyover agreed on with Chilean airline LAW

    Alas Uruguay, LAW agree on 100% buyover

    Latin American Wings (LAW) and the Uruguayan company reached an agreement whereby the new owners will keep 50% of the current staff, government authorization pending. Alas Uruguay and the Chilean airline Latin American Wings (LAW) reached a “framework agreement” on Thursday as “the first step towards integration,” it was announce in Montevideo.

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 07:18 UTC

    Trump on the phone with PM May: “UK a very, very special place for me and for my country”

    Trump set out his “close and personal connections with, and warmth for, the UK”, according to a Downing Street spokesman.

    The special relationship between the UK and the US will go from “strength to strength”, Donald Trump has told Theresa May in their first telephone call since his election. The President-elect told the Prime Minister the UK was a “very, very special place for me and for our country”. He set out his “close and personal connections with, and warmth for, the UK”, according to a Downing Street spokesman. Mrs. May stressed the importance of Britain's relationship with the US in the wake of the Brexit vote.

  • Friday, November 11th 2016 - 07:04 UTC

    Trump's victory seen from Argentina as a global tendency in Western economies

    Fraga argues that Trump's triumph is a global tendency, such was the case with the UK and Brexit, and with similar tendencies in France and Germany

    Under the heading of “Trump and Argentina”, political analyst Rosendo Fraga outlines what he believes are the reasons for the US tycoon victory in the presidential election, which he links to similar conditions in UK and the Brexit, and possible surprises next year both in France and Germany, the four leading Western economies.

  • Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 19:02 UTC

    UN Consensus “does not change anything about Gibraltar’s British sovereignty”

    “Instead of pursuing useless proposals like that of Joint Sovereignty”, what matters is returning to dialogue for the mutual benefit of people from both sides of the frontier, said CM Picardo .

    The Gibraltar government has reacted to a United Nations Consensus Decision about Gibraltar agreed between the United Kingdom and Spain during the annual event claiming it “changes nothing in relation to the continued British Sovereignty over Gibraltar”.

  • Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 12:08 UTC

    IMF lifts motion of censure on Argentina for manipulating data

    Christine Lagarde admits Argentina has made considerable progress under Macri

    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday lifted the censure motion that weighed on the country since 2013, when it decided to sanction Argentina because it considered that statistics at the National Census' Institute (Indec) were being manipulated.

  • Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:54 UTC

    Anti-Trump demonstrators march in cities across United States

    In New York, thousands filled streets in midtown Manhattan as they made their way to Trump Tower, Trump's gilded home on Fifth Avenue.

    Demonstrators marched in cities across the United States on Wednesday to protest against Republican Donald Trump's surprise presidential election win, blasting his campaign rhetoric about immigrants, Muslims and other groups. In New York, thousands filled streets in midtown Manhattan as they made their way to Trump Tower, Trump's gilded home on Fifth Avenue. Hundreds of others gathered at a Manhattan park and shouted “Not my president.”

  • Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:40 UTC

    Obama will host Trump at the White House and promises a smooth transition

    Obama campaigned vigorously for Hillary Clinton, and called Trump both temperamentally unfit for the presidency and dangerously unprepared

    President Barack Obama will host on Thursday a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House, in their first public step toward a peaceful transition of power after the Republican businessman's surprise election victory. The two men have had almost no one-on-one contact previously. Trump led the “birther” movement that questioned Obama's U.S. citizenship and has pledged to overturn the Democratic president's signature policy achievements after he takes office on Jan. 20