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Montevideo, August 23rd 2026 - 02:01 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, February 17th 2014 - 09:35 UTC

    Maduro blames Washington and expels three US consular officials

    “Determined to defend our country,” said Maduro on state television

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Sunday he was expelling three U.S. consular officials, accusing them of conspiring with the opposition forces to foment unrest as violent protests ran into a fifth straight night. The expulsions come after two weeks of sporadic protests against across the country.

  • Monday, February 17th 2014 - 09:21 UTC

    Hague underlines close links with Colombia; meets President Santos Monday

    The Foreign Secretary expressed support for the peace talks and underlined cooperation in tackling the drugs trade and organized crime

    UK Foreign Secretary William Hague was received on Sunday in Cartagena by Colombian Foreign minister María Angeles Holguín and on Monday is scheduled to meet with Juan Manuel Santos at the Palacio Nariño, seat of the Executive in Bogotá. Mr. Hague on Monday evening will be flying to Brazil.

  • Monday, February 17th 2014 - 09:09 UTC

    Uruguay's budget surplus reached 2.3% of GDP in 2013

    Government owned companies contributed 350 million dollars to the deficit

    Despite a decade of sustained growth Uruguay's fiscal deficit reached 2.3% of GDP last year, which is an improvement over 2012, when it reached 2.8%, but above the government's target of 2.1%. In money terms this means the budget red was equivalent to 1.154bn dollars, including 350 million dollar losses from government owned companies.

  • Monday, February 17th 2014 - 07:49 UTC

    Argentina/Brazil diplomatic incident almost triggers another Mercosur stall

    Argentines didn't approve of Ambassador Vera Machado's words with European lawmakers

    In what was described as a “shameful incident”, Brazil had to retract from statements made by one of its diplomats, a condition demanded by Argentina to continue negotiations for a Mercosur common tariffs reduction proposal which was taking place in Caracas. The incident occurred last week but only came to light over the weekend.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 10:24 UTC

    Brazil, the most dangerous country for Latam journalists, according to RSF

    In thirteen years, 88 journalists were killed and 18 have gone missing in Mexico (Pic DPA)

    More than 20 years after the fall of the dictatorships and civil wars that dominated Latin America, the region continues to be marked by a strong retaliation against the press, according to Reporters Without Borders, RSF, most recent annual index on the state of press freedom, which was published on Feb. 12.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 07:58 UTC

    Thousands of landless peasants clash with police in Brasilia

    The MST was celebrating 30 years and is increasingly frustrated with the government's indifference to landless peasants

    Brazilian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at about 16,000 landless farmers marching for land reform in clashes that left 42 people hurt. The march on Brasilia on Wednesday was the latest in a series of protests rocking the nation, raising security concerns just four months before Brazil hosts football's World Cup.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 06:08 UTC

    Chilean president-elect Bachelet blasts Venezuelan repression and Maduro

    ”...My greatest rejection of (President) Nicolas Maduro. You do not attack the people”, said Bachelet

    Following the bloody events of last Wednesday, while countries such as Argentina, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua expressed their full support for the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro, others were more cautious such as Washington and the Europe Union calling for restraint and dialogue, but Chilean president-elect Michelle Bachelet openly twitted her rejection to repression, to President Maduro and called for a plebiscite.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 05:57 UTC

    Venezuela blocks twitter images, allegedly to avoid of pictures police and goons shooting students

    CANTV, is government-run and handles the overwhelming majority of Internet traffic

    Twitter said on Friday that Venezuela had blocked images on its service following an anti-government protest that turned bloody, and it offered a workaround for users who want to get tweets via text message on their cell-phones.

  • Friday, February 14th 2014 - 21:36 UTC

    Mercosur summit could take place in March, say Paraguay/Venezuela ministers

    Loizaga and his Venezuelan counterpart Jaua in Caracas

    The much delayed Mercosur summit, originally scheduled for last December could take place in March, according to Paraguay's foreign minister Eladio Loizaga who this week visited his Venezuelan peer Elías Jaua. Venezuela currently holds the Mercosur rotating chair and will be hosting the event when (and if) it finally takes place.

  • Friday, February 14th 2014 - 21:22 UTC

    Total to drill first exploratory well in Uruguay's shelf in October 2015

    Ancap President Coya, Uruguay is definitively in the oil world map

    French oil giant Total will be drilling its first well in Uruguay's continental shelf in October 2015, announced the president of the country's oil and gas government owned company ANCAP. Jose Coya also revealed that the company he leads is working on the third Uruguay Round which will implement in the last quarter of next year.