Stories for 2026

Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:17 UTC
Five shipping lines warn Uruguay the port dispute is damaging its international standing

Five of the main shipping lines operating at the port of Montevideo have warned the Uruguayan government that the labour dispute at the Terminal Cuenca del Plata is causing “severe economic and commercial harm” and has “severely damaged Uruguay's international prestige”, in a letter addressed to six ministers.
Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:09 UTC
Milei denies a recession and says indicators are “throwing out anything”

Argentine President Javier Milei denied the country is in recession and questioned the reading of statistics showing rising poverty and falling economic activity. “The indicators are throwing out anything,” he said on Sunday in an interview with journalist Luis Majul on the programme La Cornisa, on the LN+ channel.
Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 00:15 UTC
Argentina-Based Game Studio Releases New Game Based on The Walking Dead

When The Walking Dead comic began in 2003, few could have predicted what an incredible cultural phenomenon it would become. There have been countless TV spinoffs and various games as well.
Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 00:02 UTC
Why Ethereum’s Dollar Value Matters as Latin America Expands Digital Payments

A designer in Montevideo can finish work for a company in São Paulo after the banks have closed. The transfer may involve two currencies, several providers and a wait before the final amount becomes clear. Stablecoin services offer a different route.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 09:33 UTC
London says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands

British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday. Asked whether London could protect the archipelago militarily if Buenos Aires sent warships, he answered yes.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:09 UTC
Chile reinforcing its military presence in Magallanes Region and Antarctica

Chile announced the reinforcement of its military capacities in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of the country with a plan that includes renewal of aircraft, modernization of armored vehicles, increased vigilance and presence in the austral territory and Antarctica, updating of military strategy based on experiences from the current war scenarios in Europe and Middle East.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:00 UTC
Falklands at Labour Conference in Liverpool

British political parties are holding their annual round of conferences and Labour, in government, has chosen the city of Liverpool for a gathering that started on Sunday, 27 September and will last for three days until 30th September.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC
The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.
Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC
Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

By Daniel Hannan (*)

As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.
Sunday, September 27th 2026 - 12:26 UTC
Brazil reaches the election with its top court under suspicion and the candidates tied

Brazil votes next Sunday in a presidential election that arrives with the Supreme Federal Court mired in its worst institutional crisis since the return to democracy, the right's candidate formally under investigation in the same case, and the two leading contenders tied within the margin of error in every poll.