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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 03:34 UTC

Stories for July 2024

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Labour anticipates a tax increase to fill a £22bn Tory “hole” in UK public finances

    Labour said repeatedly during the election campaign there would be no tax rises on “working people”, but Conservatives had insisted Labour would increase them.

    UK Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves anticipated that the government of PM Keir Starmer will have to raise some taxes in October's Budget, following the claim on Monday that the previous Tory government left a £22bn “hole” in the public finances.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

    Peru's gov't recognizes González Urrutia as winner of Venezuelan elections

    Maduro wants to stay in power forever through a dictatorship, González Olaechea stressed

    The Peruvian government of President Dina Boluarte Tuesday recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate president-elect of Venezuela, despite the announcement by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday in Caracas that Nicolás Maduro had been voted by 51.2% of the people for the 2025-2031 term against 44.2% for the challenger. “Clearly Edmundo Gonzalez is the elected president of Venezuela; this position is shared by numerous countries, governments, and international organizations,” said Foreign Minister Javier Gonzalez Olaechea.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 21:42 UTC

    María Corina Machado's arrest ordered, Venezuelan opposition warns

    The political climate in Venezuela has grown increasingly volatile following the contested election results

    The Venezuelan government under President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the arrest of opposition leader María Corina Machado, a prominent figure in the Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD). This move, denounced by leaders within PUD, comes amid a turbulent post-election period marked by accusations of irregularities and widespread unrest.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 19:31 UTC

    OAS report says Venezuela's elections results untrustworthy given CNE bias

    The OAS Permanent Council is to address the matter of the electoral process in Venezuela on Wednesday

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's reelection is not to be taken at face value, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). The continental entity's election observation department found on Tuesday that the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas is known to be pro-government biased.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Angered Venezuelans take to the streets to protest against Sunday's alleged fraud

    Maduro said a coup d'état was in the making

    Venezuelans took to the streets Monday bringing down four statues of former Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez Frías and storming key places nationwide in an apparent drive to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, who they claimed, had won Sunday's elections through fraud.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

    Guterres urges Venezuelan authorities to be transparent regarding elections results

    The UN Secretary-General also hoped things would be resolved peacefully

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres urged the Venezuelan Government of President Nicolás Maduro to show “full transparency” regarding the outcome of Sunday's elections and “publish in due time the results and the breakdown by polling stations.”

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 09:23 UTC

    Lula would negotiate with Gustavo Petro to demand transparency in Venezuela's Elections

    A Brazilian government official highlighted Lula's frustration with Maduro's failure to uphold promises of transparency

    In response to the controversial presidential elections in Venezuela, which declared Nicolás Maduro the winner with 50.20% of the vote without transparency, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is negotiating a joint statement with Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This statement would demand a transparent recount of the votes to ensure legitimacy and accuracy in the electoral process.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 08:55 UTC

    Argos Georgia, unsuccessful search for missing mariners; nine bodies on Tuesday to be flown to UK for autopsies

    MV Pharos SG and Argos Helena continued the search for disappeared crew members or debris during the weekend

    As part of the ongoing recovery effort for those crew members still missing from the fishing vessel Argos Georgia, over the weekend MV Pharos SG and one other vessel conducted a search of the datum area. This search unfortunately provided no further results of anyone missing or debris, points out the latest report from the Falkland Islands Government.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    Maduro calls Elon Musk his new “archenemy”

    “Whoever messes around with me dries out,” Maduro warned

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Monday that tycoon Elon Musk was his new “archenemy.” He insisted the South African entrepreneur had plans to invade Venezuela ”with his rockets and satellites.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 07:18 UTC

    Argentina farmers targeting a 2024/25 wheat crop of some 18,6 million tons

    With such a crop, exports are estimated at 12.4 million tons, with main markets in Brazil, followed by Indonesia and several African countries

    The US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture Service, (FAS) estimates that Argentina wheat production from the 2024/25 crop will reach an estimated at 18.6 million tons, up from 15.7 million tons in 2023-24. Planted area increased to 6.2 million hectares with improved conditions in April and May encouraging farmers to plant more than their original plans.