Get our news on your inbox! x

Remember me Forgot password

MercoPress, en Español

Montevideo, April 21st 2026 - 14:23 UTC

Latin America

  • Saturday, April 2nd 2016 - 08:47 UTC

    Peru presidential election next 10 April with no clear winner

    Veronika Mendoza, a 35-year-old leftist presidential contender in Peru who is promising a new constitution to weaken the country's business elite jumped 5 percentage points in a poll and was seen as statistically tied at second with investor-favourite Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

  • Friday, April 1st 2016 - 07:44 UTC

    UK at Chile's Air and Space Fair offering a significant range of defense products

    This significant UK presence reflects the strong commitment that UK companies have to Chile, the Armed Forces and the region.

    Partnership, disaster relief, industrial cooperation and innovation are the main UK themes as UK companies exhibit a range of world beating defense capabilities at Chile's FIDAE 2016, some attending for the first time, others as a result of having exhibited at a successful FIDAE 2014.

  • Thursday, March 31st 2016 - 06:37 UTC

    Three mega-cruise vessels with 14.000 passengers coincide at St. Kitts and Nevis

    Oasis of the Seas, the world’s second largest cruise ship, set sail from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, carrying 6,400 passengers on a nine-night Caribbean cruise

    Three mega luxury cruise liners – Oasis of the Seas, Navigator of the Seas, and Costa Favalosa coincides this week with close to 14,000 passengers at the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis and, along with them, hopes of increased business for locals. The capital Basseterre and its environs were bustling with string-band musicians, taxi-drivers competing for tours, tourists soaking up the sun, restaurants and stores full of visitors, and vendors busily plying their trade.

  • Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 06:57 UTC

    Argentina pulling out of Venezuela's sponsored Telesur TV network

    Argentina is leaving because it was shut out of financial and editorial decisions, Communications Minister Lombardi said.

    Argentina's government is pulling out from its involvement in the Spanish-language TV network that was started by the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, saying the broadcaster blocks alternative viewpoints.

  • Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 06:37 UTC

    FIFA chief Infantino arrives in Uruguay; supports 2030 World Cup in River Plate

    “An important theme is whether the World Cup can be played in more than one country,” said Infantino. “I personally support it”.

    FIFA President Gianni Infantino who on Tuesday will be in Uruguay, gave tentative backing to a joint World Cup bid by Argentina and Uruguay on Monday, suggesting the history of the two South American nations made them serious candidates to host the tournament in 2030.

  • Sunday, March 27th 2016 - 12:52 UTC

    Argentina, on a UN decision expands continental shelf area by 35% to 350 miles

    “We're reaffirming our sovereignty rights over the resources from our continental shelf, minerals, hydrocarbons and sedentary species”, Ms Malcorra was quoted

    Foreign minister Susana Malcorra is scheduled to officially announce on Monday the external limit of Argentina's continental shelf based on a unanimous decision from the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, (dependent from the Oceans and Law of the Sea), which adds to Argentina's shelf 1.7 million square kilometers, apparently confirming areas surrounding the Falklands/Malvinas, other South Atlantic islands and the Antarctica Argentine sector.

  • Sunday, March 27th 2016 - 05:12 UTC

    “Times are changing” Rolling Stones play in Cuba to hundreds of thousands

    No more. “Years ago it was difficult to hear our music but here we are,” Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger told the crowd in Spanish. “The times are changing.”

    On Friday, the Rolling Stones became the first major international rock band to play in Cuba, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to a free concert at a decrepit sports complex on the road to the airport. For years, following the Cuban revolution, rock music was banned on Cuban state TV and radio. Cubans who wore long hair and beards faced harassment from officials, including Fidel Castro who told them to dress like men.

  • Saturday, March 26th 2016 - 07:33 UTC

    Rousseff blasts the opposition for their “fascist methods” in trying to illegally remove her from office

    Rousseff claimed she was being pressured to resign because rivals wanted “to avoid the task of removing, unduly, illegally and criminally, an elected president”.

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff condemned the “fascist methods” of opponents seeking her ouster and said the country's current political crisis would leave a “scar” if not resolved democratically. In an interview with several foreign media groups, Rousseff said she was being pressured to resign because her rivals wanted “to avoid the difficulty of removing -- unduly, illegally and criminally -- a legitimately elected president from power”.

  • Saturday, March 26th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

    Mercosur prepares to celebrate 25th anniversary hoping it can be 'reborn' under Argentine leadership

    The Asuncion Treaty, founding charter of Mercosur was passed on 26 March 1991, by the original founding members, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay

    On Saturday 26 March the Asuncion Treaty, which gave birth to Mercosur, the Common Market of the South, will be 25, and even with celebration plans the mood of its members is not enthusiastic following years of “too much ideology” and “too little trade and business”, distant from the original idea and purpose.

  • Saturday, March 26th 2016 - 07:03 UTC

    Mercosur and Unasur can't agree on a statement of support for Dilma Rousseff

    “We do not interfere in the internal affairs of countries” stated the Paraguayan foreign minister Eladio Loizaga

    The attempt by Uruguay to draft a strong Mercosur and Unasur resolution in support of embattled Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has foundered. Argentina is only prepared to express support for Brazil's institutions while Chile and Paraguay have balked at the idea of personalizing the issue in Rousseff and her Workers Party.