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Montevideo, January 17th 2025 - 06:36 UTC

Stories for December 17th 2024

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 21:19 UTC

    EU: Venezuelan opposition leaders granted Sakharov Prize

    In addition to this award, Machado received this year's Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award from the European Council

    Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado were awarded Tuesday the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament given their “efforts to restore freedom and democracy” in the South American country.

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 20:29 UTC

    Trump picks golfing friend with Uruguayan past for Montevideo Embassy

    Rinaldi was born in Italy and lived in Uruguay for 15 years

    US President-elect Donald Trump chose his golfing friend Louis Rinaldi as his incoming administration's future Ambassador to Montevideo. The Italy-born Rinaldi grew up in Uruguay since he was 4 before moving to the United States. Trump has announced that a series of ambassadorial positions would be filled businessmen such as Rinaldi rather than career diplomats.

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Caracas confirms arresting Argentine Gendarmería NCO

    “It is not that [Gallo's] mission has been aborted. We have given him a hard blow thanks to the State security agencies,” Cabello underlined

    Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello Monday confirmed that Argentine Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo had been arrested by the Chavista regime because “he came to fulfill a mission.” Cabello added that Gallo's social media activity showed a lifestyle unfitting his salary, which raised doubts about his ultimate intentions.

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    Number of Argentines migrating to Uruguay on the rise

    Despite Milei's achievements against inflation, recession in Argentina remains critical

    According to data released Monday in Montevideo, the number of Argentines seeking to start anew in Uruguay in the first year under President Javier Milei has more than doubled. After Argentine migration to Uruguay increased by 64% reaching 3,639 applications in less than one year, local authorities are beginning to ponder its possible impact on the country's demographics and social structure.

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Moody's downgrades politically shaken France's credit rating

    The Chairman of the centrist Democratic Movement (MoDem) became Macron's fourth prime minister this year

    A politically shaken France has been downgraded by Moody's Investors Service from “Aa2” to “Aa3” and the country's long-term outlook went from “stable” to “negative” amid the ongoing “fragmentation” following the appointment of Prime Minister François Bayrou.

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

    World's largest iceberg headed for South Georgia Island

    A larger ice formation broke off in 1986 from the Antarctic Filchner Ice Shelf when it cracked into three smaller pieces, A23a being one of them

    According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the 3,600 square kilometer iceberg known as A23a broke off from Antarctica and was reportedly going adrift in the South Atlantic, probably towards South Georgia Island. It is arguably the world's largest and oldest iceberg, with ice sheets 400 meters thick, and weighing almost one billion tons.