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Montevideo, April 1st 2026 - 06:50 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, July 27th 2015 - 05:20 UTC

    Guyana warns in Washington about the Venezuelan threat to its territory

    “Guyana at the moment is facing a challenge to its survival by a larger state,” Granger said at the William Perry Center of Hemispheric Defense Studies.

    Guyana's territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela represents a threat to its very survival, President David Granger warned Friday in Washington. After a recent offshore oil find, the row between the two countries has escalated, with Venezuela laying claim to a huge swathe of Guyana's territory.

  • Friday, July 24th 2015 - 09:38 UTC

    ExxonMobil find in Guyana's waters could be worth 12 times the country's GDP

    Liza-1 was drilled in the Stabroek Block and encountered more than 295 feet of “high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs.”

    The Exxon Mobil oil find in Guyana, which has triggered a strong reaction from neighboring Venezuela could be worth 12 times more than that nation’s GDP. In effect according to a Guyanese minister, the find at Liza-1well in offshore Guyana could be worth about $40 billion at current international crude prices.

  • Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 07:24 UTC

    Over half of Argentina households belong to the middle class; only second to Uruguay

    According to the PEW study, Argentina tops ranking of middle class growth, 17.5% and is among the three leading 'middle classs' countries

    Argentina is the Latin American country where the middle class has grown the most in ten years, doubling in size, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center in the United States.

  • Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 06:40 UTC

    Scioli meets Raul Castro in Havana and praises political and economic opening of Cuba

    “I admire and respect Raul's influence for having defended the Cuban people and his ideals, and for the updating of the socialist economic model” said Scioli

    Argentina's presidential hopeful and Buenos Aires governor Daniel Scioli was received on Wednesday by President of Cuba Raul Castro for an official audience in Havana, making the incumbent candidate the first foreign politician to meet the head of state since the normalising of relations with the United States.

  • Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 05:41 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas special session at Aladi's offices in Montevideo

    Aladi founded in 1980, includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela and Uruguay.

    The Latin American Integration Association, Aladi, with main offices in Montevideo, will be holding on Thursday an extraordinary meeting on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands question in the framework of the recent Day of Affirmation of Argentine rights over the South Atlantic Islands (June 10), and the fiftieth anniversary of UN Assembly Resolution 2065, which called on Argentina and UK to dialogue and find a solution to the dispute.

  • Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 04:43 UTC

    Cuba and US on a 'new beginning', but 'profound differences' persist

    Kerry said the ”interests of both countries are better served by engagement than by estrangement,'' after meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Rodríguez

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba a “new beginning” but said many differences remain between the two nations and warned that the full normalization of ties will be a long process. He spoke hours after ceremonies were held in Havana and Washington to mark the restoration of ties after more than five decades of hostility.

  • Tuesday, July 21st 2015 - 04:28 UTC

    Falklands' oil industry: Mercosur special declaration in support of Argentina's Malvinas dispute

    “Aware of the presence of a semi-submersible rig in the Argentine continental shelf involved in hydrocarbons exploration activities non authorized by Argentina...”

    The latest Mercosur summit, held last week in Brazil included a special statement, --besides the main regular declaration with 69 articles--, blasting the UK for violating international law and Argentine domestic law over the exploration of hydrocarbons “in the Argentine continental shelf in proximity of the Malvinas Islands”.

  • Monday, July 20th 2015 - 07:47 UTC

    Guyana to 'stoutly resist' Venezuela plans to issue IDs to disputed Essequibo residents

    “We will stoutly resist any effort to have our people issued with cards and things like that” said Guyana Minister of State Joseph Harmon

    Guyana on Sunday warned it would “stoutly resist” plans by Venezuela to register residents in Essequibo and issue them identification cards for the neighbouring Spanish-speaking nation. Venezuela claims the region and has launched an aggressive campaign at domestic and international level calling president David Granger a 'provocateur”.

  • Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 09:29 UTC

    Mercosur agrees to give intra-trade a new boost eliminating barriers

    Dilma Rousseff formally hands the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur for the next six months to Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes

    Mercosur agreed at the Brasilia summit that in the second half of the year they will address alternatives for the elimination of tariff and other similar barriers that impede the natural flow of trade of goods and services among its members. The initiative was agreed by Common Market Council, CMC, on the first day of deliberations and confirmed on Friday by the presidents of the group's full members.

  • Saturday, July 18th 2015 - 09:15 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez hails Mercosur success in integration and in promoting a political block

    “As responsible leaders, we cannot stop noticing the challenges we have ahead,” Cristina Fernandez said stressing the need to address destabilization attempts

    In what can be considered her last speech before a Mercosur summit, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, who is stepping down next December, hailed what she called the “magnitude of the importance of integration” in South America with the inclusion of both Venezuela and Bolivia showing the “success and the resounding failure for those who forecasted for years that the Mercosur was going to fail.”