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Montevideo, January 13th 2025 - 03:00 UTC

Stories for 2023

  • Friday, April 21st 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Lavrov strengthens Moscow's ties with Havanna

    Raúl Castro (left) also met with Díaz-Canel (center) and the Russian dignitary (right)

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday told Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel that Moscow continued to reject the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by Washington on Havanna. The Russian diplomat also met with former President Raúl Castro and with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla during the last stop of his Latin America and Caribbean tour which included Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

  • Friday, April 21st 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Argentine peso keeps sinking against US dollar

    The local currency bounced back after it was shown pictures of President Fernández and Minister Massa were disseminated, proving there was no resignation on the radar

    The Argentine peso kept sinking Thursday against the US dollar with the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) rate hitting AR$ 440 before closing at AR$ 437/AR$ 432 (buy/sale).

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Lula's stance could jeopardize Mercosur-EU deal

    Commentators on Brazil's opposition media Jovem Pan this week even suggested Lula seeking the Nobel Peace Prize would be a good explanation

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's stance on the war in Ukraine might jeopardize the Mercosur-European Union deal, according to a confidential report drafted ahead of a European foreign ministers' summit and accessed by Politico.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    1435 Flight Typhoons primary role is 24/7 Air Defense and QRA of the Falklands

    At any one time, 1435 Flight consists of numerous engineers, support staff and pilots, who maintain and fly the Typhoon FGR4 aircraft

    If you live on the Falkland Islands, you will be lucky enough to see the FGR4 Typhoons regularly grace the skies with their presence. A team of highly skilled and hardworking engineers ensure that the jets are well maintained and ready to provide Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) should it be required.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Work started on Royal Navy's next Type 26 frigate “Birmingham”

    Birmingham is the first of the second batch of five frigates, – Sheffield, Newcastle, Edinburgh, London – to join the original trio of HMS Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast

    Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship which will carry the name and motto – Forward – of England’s second city, Birmingham, around the globe for a quarter of a century.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    “Jewish soldiers in Malvinas”, and acts of anti Semitism by some Argentine military officers

    The book, “Jewish soldiers in Malvinas” was written by Hernan Dobry, which mentions the testimonies and experiences of 39 of 43 conscripts and petty officers of Jewish descent

    A third of Argentine conscripts of Jewish origin who participated in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict suffered different forms of anti-Semitism, including torture, abuses, and psychological threats, and 10% of them were staked to the ground.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    First Quarter sees over a million tourists flocking to Uruguay

    Purchases by 'premium' tourists increased by 36% in relation to the pre-pandemic period

    The Ministry of Tourism of Uruguay announced that in the first quarter of the year, more than one million tourists visited the South American country, generating revenues of 741 million US dollars. This was presented on Wednesday, indicating an increase in the sector.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    European Parliament approves law banning imports from deforested lands

    The rules aim to eliminate deforestation from the supply chains of a range of everyday items sold in Europe

    The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a landmark deforestation law to ban imports into the European Union that come from any land that was deforested since December 31, 2020.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    How far up did the US dollar go Wednesday against the Argentine peso?

    After six days of purchases, Argentina's Central Bank had to sell dollars to avoid a sharper increase in the “blue” rate

    Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa seems unable to find a way out of the country's current crisis. In this scenario, the “blue” dollar (a euphemism for “black market”) rose five more pesos Wednesday to close at AR$ 423 as the Central Bank (BCRA) ended with a negative balance of US$197 million, this bringing a streak of six positive rounds to an end. The country risk remained at 2,474 basis points, according to JP Morgan's index.

  • Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Arrest of former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno requested

    Moreno travels in a wheelchair and refused to travel from Asunción to Quito citing health issues

    Ecuadorian prosecutors Wednesday requested the pre-trial arrest of former President Lenín Moreno after the latter failed to appear before the courts as mandated in the Sinohydro corruption case, in which he is said to have accepted bribes for the construction of the country's largest hydroelectric plant.