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Montevideo, October 11th 2026 - 04:20 UTC

Stories for August 2026

  • Sunday, August 9th 2026 - 20:37 UTC

    Uruguay's Partido Nacional sets a 2030 return to government as its goal

    Former president Lacalle Pou also took part in the event and closed the proceedings. It was one of his first party appearances since he left office. Photo: Gastón Britos / EFE

    The president of the board of Uruguay's Partido Nacional, Álvaro Delgado, on Sunday called on members of the country's main opposition force to “build the history of the future” and set a return to government in 2030 as the first objective, so that Uruguay can “find direction again.”

  • Sunday, August 9th 2026 - 20:05 UTC

    Machado congratulates De la Espriella and says Venezuela will soon follow suit

    “As sister peoples, united by a common history and culture, we know that our future is also inseparably linked,” she wrote

    Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado congratulated Colombia's new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and said Venezuela would “very soon” undertake a process of institutional and democratic strengthening similar to the one she said is beginning in the neighboring country. The Colombian president replied on Sunday thanking her for the support.

  • Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:52 UTC

    De la Espriella sworn in before Congress in Cali, delivers first speech to the military

    Abelardo de la Espriella delivers his first speech as president at the Pichincha Battalion in Cali

    Abelardo de la Espriella took office as president of Colombia in Cali on Friday, the first time a Colombian leader has been sworn in outside Bogotá, and delivered his first speech at an Army battalion rather than before Congress, breaking with the country's institutional tradition.

  • Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:48 UTC

    Falklands: 'South Atlantic Sentinel' exercise involves all three services

    BFSAI ground forces simulate the defense of Mount Pleasant Complex against attempts to seize it.

    In late July, forces from the three services stationed at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands — headquarters of British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) — took part in a series of military exercises designed to demonstrate their speed of response and operational integration, under the banner of the deployment's name, South Atlantic Sentinel.

  • Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:38 UTC

    Celtic roots of both the Falklands and Malvinas names?

    The coarse sheet smuggled into the pitch by some fan, and displayed by Argentines players following victory in the match with England

    The Irish Times has published a very interesting piece from Tomaí Ó Conghaile following on the fallout from the World Cup, who argues that both the English and Spanish versions of the Falkland-Malvinas Islands names have their roots in Celtic languages.

  • Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:26 UTC

    Falklands: rise in the CPI, caused by the conflict in the Middle East

    The Islands' Head of Policy, Roddy Cordeiro, warned of volatile oil prices and said the United Kingdom is already anticipating that they will give inflation a further push.

    The Consumer Price Index (CPI), according to official Falkland Islands figures, recorded a quarterly increase of 3.4% as a result of the impact of higher fuel prices.

  • Saturday, August 8th 2026 - 07:00 UTC

    China will have the largest embassy in London, the former Royal Mint

    Plans for Beijing's super embassy have drawn opposition and protests from nearby residents and diaspora groups

    The UK High Court on Friday threw out a challenge against UK authorities' decision to permit a new Chinese super embassy in central London. The challenge was brought by a neighborhood group called the Royal Mint Court Residents' Association (RMCRA), which represents families and businesses in roughly 100 properties around the planned embassy site.

  • 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.