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Montevideo, December 30th 2024 - 22:42 UTC

Stories for 2016

  • Tuesday, September 13th 2016 - 09:42 UTC

    Brazilian congress expels lawmaker who engineered Rousseff's impeachment

    Cunha's downfall has many politicians worried: he has threatened to bring down others by revealing cases of corruption that could endanger Temer's government

    Two weeks after the removal of Dilma Rousseff as Brazil's president, the lower house of Congress on Monday expelled the lawmaker who engineered her impeachment for lying about secret bank accounts in Switzerland. The once powerful former speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has been charged with corruption by the Supreme Court, was banned from politics for eight years and faces arrest now he has lost his congressional prerogatives.

  • Tuesday, September 13th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

    Ex PM Cameron “after a long and hard thought” resigns as a Member of Parliament

    Cameron opposed the so-called “Brexit,” and campaigned for Britain to remain in the E.U. He informed Prime Minister May of his decision Monday afternoon.

    Former British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Monday that he is stepping down as a member of Parliament, just months after leaving 10 Downing Street. Cameron, a member of the Conservative Party, stepped down as prime minister in July after the United Kingdom voted in a June referendum to leave the European Union, saying the country needed new leadership.

  • Tuesday, September 13th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez to court on public works contracts between 2007 and 2015

    Last June Cristina Fernandez's former public works secretary, Jose Lopez, was caught trying to stash millions of dollars in a Catholic convent

    Argentina's ex-president, Cristina Fernandez, has been subpoenaed to testify next 20 October as part of an investigation into the awarding of public works contracts during her 2007-2015 administration, according to court papers filed on Monday. She denies wrongdoing and corruption claims, and accuses Argentina's current leader, Mauricio Macri, of using the courts to persecute her.

  • Monday, September 12th 2016 - 10:38 UTC

    Chile marked the 43 anniversary of the military coup headed by Pinochet that ousted Allende

    Chileans marked the 43 anniversary of the coup which ousted elected President Allende and began the 17-year dictatorship of Pinochet on 11 September 1973.

    Remembering a painful past, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet said on Sunday the truth must be told and justice be served for thousands of victims of the country’s dictatorship. She made the statement as Chileans marked the 43 anniversary of the coup which ousted democratically-elected President Salvador Allende and began the 17-year-long dictatorship of General Pinochet on September 11, 1973.

  • Monday, September 12th 2016 - 10:19 UTC

    Guyana working to establish an onshore oil and gas facility to boost the incipient industry

    Guyana said that as industry continues to evolve, “early plans must be put in place to harness synergies and benefits that will arise” said minister Raphael Trotman

    The Guyana government intends to establish an onshore oil and gas facility in the country as it seeks to fully optimize opportunities in petroleum exploration and production. The Ministry of Natural Resources, working in conjunction with the Ministries of Public Infrastructure and Business, says it believes that this facility is critical and said it is part of the raft of measures intended to ensure that Guyana keeps on the right trajectory in the development of the oil and gas industry.

  • Monday, September 12th 2016 - 07:35 UTC

    “President Macri is a normal person, has a normal head and common sense”

    With this change of mentality, “all things from the Kirchners' time abnormality are being knocked out” indicated Melconian, head of the Banco Nacion

    “The president we have now is normal, he has common sense and he wants to make the country normal and sooner than later, we'll be there; he has a normal world in his head”, said Carlos Melconian, head of Argentina's Bank of the Nation in reference to president Mauricio Macri, during a conference in Montevideo where he was invited to talk about “Argentina, the new rules of the game and their impact for Uruguay”,

  • Monday, September 12th 2016 - 07:07 UTC

    Hillary's pneumonia puts US presidential candidates' medical records on the campaign debate

    Clinton's pneumonia was being treated with antibiotics and the candidate had been “advised to rest and modify her schedule,” doctor Bardack said.

    United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's personal doctor revealed on Sunday that he Democratic nominee was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, hours after Clinton drew attention for abruptly leaving a 9/11 memorial event at Ground Zero and was seen on video apparently being assisted getting into a van.

  • Monday, September 12th 2016 - 06:52 UTC

    Gibraltar celebrates National Day defiantly:“if Brexit means Brexit, then British means British”

    “If anyone thinks that we are going to sell our homeland for access to Europe, they don’t know the Gibraltarians,” said CM Picardo

    Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo sent a firm message on Saturday, 10 September, the Rock's National Day, which was accompanied by strong support messages from the UK and a visiting delegation of MPs from all parties in Westminster

  • Monday, September 12th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

    Trade, investments and Falklands in Sir Alan Duncan's agenda in Buenos Aires

    Sir Alan Duncan will also be at the opening of a business and investment conference which will be attended by a delegation of forty top British companies

    UK Foreign Office minister of state for the Americas and the Falkland Islands, Sir Alan Duncan begins this Monday a full agenda of activities in Buenos Aires with the purpose of promoting business, investments and normalizing bilateral relations, after more than a decade of distant when not frozen links under the Kirchner couple administrations. The Falkland Islands issue is also expected to be addressed but with “a constructive spirit”.

  • Sunday, September 11th 2016 - 16:40 UTC

    Brazil's ex attorney general claims he was fired for trying to deepen Petrobras corruption case

    “The government wants to smother the Car Wash probe. It is very worried,” Medina Osorio was quoted as saying by Veja.

    Brazil's new government is trying to stifle a corruption investigation targeting politicians and major parties, the former attorney general said in a magazine interview a day after being replaced by President Michel Temer. The former official, Fabio Medina Osorio, told weekly magazine Veja that he was fired because he tried to deepen the so-called “Car Wash” corruption probe into the country's oil company Petrobras.