Stories for 2024

Monday, July 1st 2024 - 09:50 UTC
Delgado's surprising VP choice: Valeria Ripoll, former Communist Party member

In a surprising move following the internal elections, Álvaro Delgado of the ruling center-right wing Partido Nacional announced Valeria Ripoll as his vice-presidential candidate. Ripoll, who has a notable background in union activism and a past affiliation with the Uruguayan Communist Party (PCU), is expected to attract votes from outside the traditional party base. Delgado's choice was not universally welcomed within the party, sparking discontent among supporters of other pre-candidates. Nevertheless, Delgado's team believes Ripoll's inclusion will enhance the ticket's appeal and strengthen the party's outreach efforts.
Monday, July 1st 2024 - 09:43 UTC
Lacalle leaves Presidential residency

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou left the traditional Suárez Y Reyes residency and moved into an apartment in Montevideo's exclusive Carrasco area citing proximity to where his ex-wife Lorena Ponce de León and the couple's children live.
Monday, July 1st 2024 - 09:35 UTC
CFK: The Libertarians' zero deficit is a fabrication

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015 / CFK) said during an interview on the internet streaming channel Gelatina outside mainstream media that the Liberal administration's “fiscal surplus is increasingly trumped up.”
Monday, July 1st 2024 - 09:32 UTC
French far-right party on the brink of forming gov't

French President Emmanuel Macron called on all non-rightwing supporters to rally against the Rassemblement National party of Marine LePen winning Sunday's snap first-round parliamentary elections. In any case, the head of state announced he would not be resigning. These political events unfold just days before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Monday, July 1st 2024 - 08:44 UTC
Lord Ahmad, “The UK has no doubt about Falkland Islanders right to self determination”

Lord Ahmad, UK Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Commonwealth, and United Nations, addressed the 54th regular session of the OAS general assembly in Asunción, Paraguay.
Monday, July 1st 2024 - 04:01 UTC
Subzero temperatures recorded in southern Brazil

Areas in southern Brazil recorded subzero temperatures Sunday as a strong and broad mass of polar air hit the States of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, Agencia Brasil reported citing data from the National Meteorological Institute (Inmet) as well as from Epagri/Ciram, an agency of the Santa Catarina state government.
Saturday, June 29th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
OAS General Assembly salutes Argentina's stance regarding Malvinas and issues Declaration of Asunción

The 54th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded Friday in the Paraguayan capital with the Declaration of Asunción, a document promoting the elimination of violence against women and girls, the fight against climate change, and the fight against organized crime.
Saturday, June 29th 2024 - 10:18 UTC
Paraguay and Argentina set roadmap for collaborative work

Paraguay and Argentina reached an understanding regarding the Paraná-Paraguay River Waterway after Foreign Ministers Rubén Ramírez Lezcano and Diana Mondino gathered in Asunción on the sides of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly.
Saturday, June 29th 2024 - 09:28 UTC
Brazil: Dollar soars, unemployment falls

The economy in South America's largest country is taking a shaky turn as Friday's figures would indicate. The exchange rate between the local real (R$) and the US dollar (US$) went up 15.15% over the past six months, closing at US$ 1 = R$ 5.58 while the Stock market fell 0.32% for a 1.49% monthly gain. On the brighter side, unemployment in the quarter ending in May stood at 7.1%, according to Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), a considerable improvement from February's 7.8% and the yoy 8.3%.
Friday, June 28th 2024 - 23:41 UTC
The whistleblowers a free, well informed world most needs

By Gwynne Dyer - Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a free man at last after spending almost all of the past 14 years in jail or other forms of confinement. He has just arrived home in Australia to be greeted by his family, including two young sons who have never seen him except in Belmarsh Prison in London. But it is the bad guys who won.