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Montevideo, July 21st 2025 - 19:59 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 08:51 UTC

    Suicide bomber attacks Brasilia's key square

    The episode brought back memories of the Jan. 8, 2023, riots so further explosions or havoc were feared

    Police have cordoned off Brasilia's Three Powers Square after two explosives were detonated 20 seconds apart near the Supreme Federal Court's (STF) headquarters and next to the House of Deputies respectively. The sole perpetrator of both attacks was killed in the incident. The devices were apparently homemade, the authorities said.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 20:32 UTC

    South Atlantic and Falklands: a more constructive attitude from Argentina?

    RRS Sir David Attenborough in Montevideo

    Several events over the last weekend seem to indicate that the last September understanding between UK and Argentina regarding South Atlantic and Falkland Islands interests, agreed by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and then Foreign Affairs minister Diana Mondino is beginning to make sense.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 20:00 UTC

    Minister’s Falklands visit “reinforces UK’s historical and strategic ties in the South Atlantic”

    Minister Pollard MP and Governor Alison Blake with seven of the eight members of the Legislative Assembly

    This week UK made official the fact that Minister for the Armed Forces, Luke Pollard MP was in the Falkland Islands to meet service personal, members of the Islands elected government, and also attend a Remembrance Day Service.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 18:03 UTC

    6-year prison sentence against CFK upheld

    CFK was acquitted of illicit association but the prosecution will appeal the ruling

    A federal court of appeals in the City of Buenos Aires Wednesday unanimously upheld the six-year prison sentence on former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), who had been found guilty in December, 2022, of fraudulent administration in the so-called Vialidad Nacional case. She was also disenfranchised for life from public office. The scandal involved numerous public works in the province of Santa Cruz awarded to businessman Lázaro Báez in fudgy dealings.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 12:23 UTC

    Macron adding Buenos Aires and Santiago to G20 South American tour

    Macron is launching a new phase in France's ties with South America

    French President Emmanuel Macron will be making state visits to Argentina and Chile as part of his South American tour to attend the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, it was confirmed in diplomatic circles. Macron will first get together with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei to discuss climate change and other bilateral issues between Nov. 16 and 17. Then, he will head for Brazil's gathering of world leaders on Nov. 18 and 19. And then he will travel to Santiago for talks with Gabriel Boric Font.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Lula says Maduro not Brazil's problem

    “Maduro is a Venezuelan problem, not a Brazilian problem,” Lula said

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview with RedeTV that Nicolás Maduro was “Venezuela's problem,” not his country's. “It seems to me that it was a wise reflection by Lula,” Maduro replied after recent incidents between the two Latin American nations resulting in Caracas being excluded from the BRICS associate membership granted to Bolivia and Cuba, among others.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Falkland Islands representative honors Fallen Heroes on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph

    The Falkland Islands Government Representative, Richard Hyslop, with the wreath laid on behalf of the people and Government of the Falkland Islands.

    Richard Hyslop, the Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK & Europe, marked Remembrance Sunday by laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London, paying tribute on behalf of the Falkland Islands Government and people. He joined the UK Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and other representatives from the UK Overseas Territories in honoring those who lost their lives in service to the Allied Forces during the World Wars and the Falklands War.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Milei sees end of currency exchange restrictions on the horizon

    “I enjoy shrinking the State, it gives me enormous pleasure,” Milei told a group of businessmen

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Tuesday that his country could be months away from lifting the currency exchange stocks after the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said October's inflation stood at 2.7%.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Milei says Argentina “entering its best moment in the last 100 years”

    “We are already seeing the bubbles of the diver's fart,” the scholar Milei explained

    Argentine President Javier Milei insisted Monday that his country was “entering its best moment in the last 100 years,” despite what the rank and file may perceive amid soaring prices and dwindling wages. “I say to all private sector players: take advantage of getting on the progress train now because it is cheaper to buy,” added the head of state during a visit to the headquarters of the virtual wallet platform Ualá.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    German Consul in Asunción killed in multiple-car crash

    At the time of impact, Consul Blumenröther was in the car's back seat with her 4-year-old son in her arms

    Germany's Consul General in Asunción (Paraguay) Kristin Blumenröther was killed Sunday in a multiple-car crash on the Luque-San Bernardino road known as Ecovía in which her husband and one of the children also perished. The couple's other child survived the accident and is hospitalized. The Paraguayan administration of President Santiago Peña extended its condolences to Blumenröther and the German Government.