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Montevideo, January 16th 2025 - 16:10 UTC

Stories for 2023

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

    How the Far Left paves the way for the Far Right, the Chilean experience

    Boric’s generation came to power in early 2022, promising to increase taxes on the rich and redistribute the proceeds.

    By Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention that produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

    Brazilian federal police seize a quarter ton of cocaine in the port of Santos

    The port of Santos is the largest and busiest of Brazil, and many narcotics gangs are taking advantage of its facilities to smuggle drugs in ships to European ports

    Brazilian law enforcement organizations in a combined operation seized some 251 kilos of cocaine on Sunday from a ship in the port of Santos, the country's busiest. The drug was discovered hidden in an underwater compartment of a ship. The Federal Police is in charge of the investigation but did not report of any arrests.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:32 UTC

    Former Salvadoran president convicted in absentia

    Funes has had Nicaraguan citizenship since 2019

    A Salvadoran court Monday sentenced former President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) to 14 years in prison for his alleged negotiations with criminal gangs. Funes, currently living in Nicaragua, got 8 years for illicit groupings and 6 years for breach of duty. Nicaragua gave him citizenship in 2019.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

    Uruguayan Senator against synthetic meat

    Da Silva insisted that laboratories producing synthetic meat increase global warming

    Uruguayan Senator Sebastián Da Silva (National Party) will push for the banning of the manufacture and import of artificial or laboratory meat because “Uruguay, as a cattle-raising country, has to be a pioneer in the fight against this type of laboratory protein, artificial, and must defend the real natural food,” it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    CEO of US top bank JP Morgan linked with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

    JP Morgan said that Mr Dimon stated he had never met or communicated with Epstein and did not recall discussing Epstein's accounts with others at the bank.

    The CEO of one of the largest global banks and consultant of politicians and lawmakers, Jamie Dimon has provided a formal statement in two lawsuits over ties between the US JP Morgan bank and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    Paraguayan President-elect meets with Argentine and Uruguayan leaders

    Peña first met with Fernández in Buenos Aires and then had lunch in Montevideo with Lacalle

    Paraguay's President-elect Santiago Peña Monday met in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Alberto Fernández and later in the day, he traveled to Montevideo for an encounter with President Luis Lacalle Pou as both La Plata River leaders were preparing to travel to Brasilia for the South American Summit convened by Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

    Same-sex relations can lead to death penalty in Uganda

    The measure passed by President Yoweri Museveni has broad public support in the African country

    Ugandan authorities have passed new criminal legislation whereby homosexuality is punishable by death, it was reported in Entebbe. President Yoweri Museveni Monday signed into law the bill that has the support of the country's public opinion.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 09:21 UTC

    Aerolíneas Argentinas flight attendant arrested for allegedly making bomb threat

    The delay cost Aerolíneas Argentinas over US$ 1 million due to the rescheduling of the flight

    An Aerolineas Argentinas flight attendant was arrested Monday for allegedly making the phone calls saying there was a bomb on the flag carrier's May 21 flight AR 1304 from Ezeiza to Miami, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 06:41 UTC

    Liverpool commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic

    The three-day event has been blessed with perfect weather and large crowds with thousands of people descending on the ‘military village’ near the iconic Liver Building.

    Three days of Battle of the Atlantic commemorations have ended in Liverpool with organizers and the public equally delighted by the maritime spectacle.

  • Monday, May 29th 2023 - 20:40 UTC

    Additional funds to continue expanding the port of Ushuaia

    The port of Ushuaia under extension construction

    The port of Ushuaia will be receiving an additional 2,5 million dollars (in Argentine Pesos) to continue the expansion and updating of the terminal in the extreme southern province of Tierra del Fuego. The announcement followed a meeting of the provincial governor, recently re-elected Gustavo Melella, and Deputy Secretary Patricio Hogan, from the federal government Ports, Watercourse ways and Merchant Navy Office.