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Montevideo, January 10th 2025 - 22:13 UTC

Stories for 2016

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 06:08 UTC

    UK-Argentina: a new start for an old relationship, according to The Economist

    The 60-metre Palladian clock tower was a gift from the city’s British community to mark the centenary of Argentina’s 1810 revolution

    With its green bell tower and royal coat of arms, the Torre Monumental in Buenos Aires would not look out of place in a British market town. The 60-metre Palladian clock tower was a gift from the city’s British community to mark the centenary of Argentina’s 1810 revolution (though it was completed in 1916). On May 24th this year around 200 people gathered to commemorate its centenary.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 05:53 UTC

    Falklands claim and UN chief post bid', “not incompatible” for Argentine minister Malcorra

    “What we have been saying regarding the Malvinas is what we have said since the day we took office ... and I see no incompatibility” between that and becoming secretary-general, Malcorra said

    Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra said on Friday she believes there's no conflict of interest between her bid to be the next U.N. secretary-general and her ministerial work including pressing Argentina's sovereignty claim over the disputed Falkland Islands.

  • Friday, May 27th 2016 - 08:04 UTC

    Paraguay requests meeting of Mercosur foreign ministers to address Venezuela situation

    Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said he had received precise instructions from president Horacio Cartes to ask for the Mercosur foreign ministers meeting.

    Paraguay formally requested on Thursday a meeting of Mercosur foreign ministers to address the situation in Venezuela which is undergoing a critical political, social and economic scenario. The request was presented to Uruguay which currently holds the chair of the trade block made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

  • Friday, May 27th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

    Trump is over the top: with 1237 delegates he becomes Republican candidate

    With 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on June 7, Trump will easily pad his total, avoiding a contested convention in Cleveland.

    United States presidential candidate Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination and Trump has reached 1,238.

  • Friday, May 27th 2016 - 06:56 UTC

    Chilean students back in the streets 'tired of waiting' for the education reform

    Police in the capital Santiago reported that 117 people were arrested and 32 officers injured on Thursday.

    Hooded protesters pelted stones at police who fired tear gas and water cannons in the Chilean capital Thursday, as thousands of students staged fresh street rallies demanding free university education. Students rallied in the center of Santiago, where security forces tried to block their path.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 11:51 UTC

    A debt agenda for G7 meeting in Japan

    In the United States, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government debt doubled over the past decade, from 36% of GDP to 74% of GDP.

    By Martin Feldstein - On May 26-27, the heads of the Group of Seven leading industrial countries will gather in Japan to discuss common security and economic problems. A major common problem that deserves their attention is the unsustainable increase in the major developed countries’ national debt. Failure to address the explosion of government borrowing will have adverse effects on the global economy and on debt-burdened countries themselves.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 06:53 UTC

    Rousseff claims Temer intends to “privatize” Brazil's pre-salt oil reserves

    The pre-salt region is estimated to hold tens of billions of barrels of crude equivalent, at 7.000 meters depths offshore Brazil's southeastern coast.

    Brazil's suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, on Wednesday accused interim head of state Michel Temer of intending to “privatize” the oil discovered in recent years in deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean and thus deprive the nation's education sector of funding.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 06:34 UTC

    Falklands are “most satisfied with Chile links and excellent health services”

    “Our economy is strong enough to allow us to chose where we wish to send our students, and patients demanding services we can't supply in the Falklands”

    Falkland Islanders are very satisfied with the Chile links and health services in Santiago, was the first reply to media speculations in the Buenos Aires media regarding possible changes in the Argentine government attitude and policies towards the disputed Falklands.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 06:19 UTC

    Falkland Islanders must be addressed ”as Argentines or foreigners living in (mainland) Argentina”

    Macri believes sovereignty discussions on the Islands remain an exclusive dialogue with London, in the framework of the United Nations.

    The Falkland Islands and Falkland Islanders must be addressed as if they were Argentines or foreigners living in mainland Argentina, which means a more “normal relation” with the Islands including extending healthcare services, education and even greater air connectivity, according to the latest column from Martin Dinatale, editor in chief of La Nacion who in a previous piece revealed the “humanitarian approach” the government of Mauricio Macri has in mind on the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2016 - 06:05 UTC

    Argentina confident Patagonia's shale formation foreign interest remains strong

    “Vaca Muerta will continue to be for YPF and, for the country, a very good option to regain the energy sovereignty,” minister Aranguren said

    Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation in Patagonia remains an attractive asset for international investors, many of which are looking to increase the amount they have invested so far, according to the country's Energy Minister Juan José Aranguren, a former Shell Argentina CEO.