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Montevideo, August 27th 2026 - 11:29 UTC

Stories for August 7th 2026

  • Friday, August 7th 2026 - 21:17 UTC

    Venezuelan government and opposition open US-backed talks

    The government and opposition delegations during the first meeting at the La Carlota Convention Center in Caracas

    Delegations from the Venezuelan government and one sector of the opposition met on Thursday in Caracas to open negotiations backed by the United States, in the first face-to-face encounter since Nicolás Maduro's detention by US forces on January 3.

  • Friday, August 7th 2026 - 20:58 UTC

    Why the Falkland Islands are British

    The islands are not an “imperial possession” of Britain – that’s 19th-century language. Photo: Getty Images

    By Graham Pascoe (*)

    On 11 July 2026 the Argentine foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, wrote a long article on the Falkland Islands (or the Malvinas, as they are called in Spanish) in the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación, as Iona Cleave reported in the London Telegraph the next day. On 23 July he published an almost identical article in the Israeli English-language daily Jerusalem Post. In both his articles the foreign minister repeated several arguments which (he said) showed the strength of Argentina's claim to the Falklands. Unfortunately for him, everything he said is historically and legally untrue, as will be pointed out below.

  • Friday, August 7th 2026 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentine Senate passes property bill after dropping two key chapters

    La Libertad Avanza had removed on Wednesday the chapter easing rural land purchases by foreigners, following opposition from several allied governors

    Argentina's Senate approved in the early hours of Friday, by 37 votes to 33, the Inviolability of Private Property bill promoted by Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger, after the governing bloc withdrew the two chapters that drew the most resistance. The text now goes to the Chamber of Deputies.

  • Friday, August 7th 2026 - 10:43 UTC

    Milei promotes a summit of right-wing presidents outside existing regional bodies

    Milei held a bilateral meeting with his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa, at the Carondelet Palace, in the first official visit by an Argentine president to Quito in nearly two decades

    Argentine President Javier Milei is working to convene a summit of right-wing leaders from across the Americas outside existing multilateral organizations, though no date has been set. The initiative comes amid a series of trips that took him this week to Ecuador and Colombia.

  • Friday, August 7th 2026 - 10:40 UTC

    Colombia: De la Espriella takes office in Cali without Petro present

    The 47-year-old criminal defense lawyer won the June 21 runoff against left-wing candidate Iván Cepeda, having never held public office or stood for election before

    Abelardo de la Espriella takes office as president of Colombia on Friday at a ceremony held at the Santiago de Cali University, outside Bogotá and without the attendance of his predecessor, Gustavo Petro, in a handover marked by confrontation between the two men.

  • Friday, August 7th 2026 - 10:06 UTC

    Police disperse march against property bill with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon

    According to police sources, the Federal Police arrested three people and the Buenos Aires City Police another nine, all charged with assault and resisting authority

    Twelve people were detained on Thursday during clashes outside Argentina's Congress, at a demonstration called against the Inviolability of Private Property bill being debated in the Senate.