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Montevideo, August 18th 2026 - 20:06 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 22:00 UTC

    Miami ruling links Maduro to “hostage diplomacy,” orders $314 million in damages

    Judge Darrin P. Gayles issued a default judgment on Tuesday against Nicolás Maduro, Saab, five other Venezuelan officials, and the so-called Cartel of the Suns

    A federal judge in Miami ordered $314 million in damages to be paid to three US citizens who were imprisoned in Venezuela, where they said they were tortured by intelligence services before being freed in a 2023 exchange with Washington for Colombian businessman Alex Saab.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 13:20 UTC

    Free movement between Gibraltar and Spain

    Picture credit: GBC Television

    By Jim Watt - A historic transformation of the frontier between Gibraltar and Spain has taken place at the land border. Under a landmark post-Brexit treaty between the UK and the EU, the physical border fence — traditionally known as “La Verja” in Spain — has been completely dismantled, and on Wednesday, at midnight, the crossing was fully open to pedestrians.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 09:41 UTC

    FIFA bans Falklands imagery from Argentina-England World Cup semifinal

    Argentina fans display a Lionel Messi banner after the match as Argentina qualify for the quarter finals of the World Cup. Photo: Brett Davis-Imagn

    FIFA, in coordination with US security authorities, has banned imagery referring to the Falklands from the stadium where Argentina and England play the 2026 World Cup semifinal on Wednesday, a match loaded with historical connotations that has been classified as high-risk.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 09:30 UTC

    British embassy in Buenos Aires jokes ahead of Argentina-England semifinal

    The diplomatic mission shared on its social media a mock “internal memo” addressed to its communications officer

    The United Kingdom's embassy in Buenos Aires posted a humorous message ahead of the 2026 World Cup semifinal between Argentina and England, played on Wednesday in Atlanta, in an attempt to ease the mood before a match loaded with historical connotations.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2026 - 07:07 UTC

    Fujimori takes on Peru's presidency with security and national unity as her main challenges

    Fujimori will govern a country fractured by inequality, ideological divisions, and territorial tensions, with the Andean south as the main focus of resistance to her authority

    Keiko Fujimori, 51, received on Wednesday in Lima the credentials confirming her as Peru's president-elect, a post she will be sworn into on July 28, the country's independence day. She will be the first woman to reach the executive office through the ballot box, arriving after a career defined by persistence: she won on her fourth attempt, following three consecutive runoff defeats.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 22:38 UTC

    Milei removes embassy official in Spain over internal dispute

    The conflict had become public in April, when Nimo said on social media that Bunge had taken away the office where he received businesspeople interested in investing in Argentina

    The government of Argentine President Javier Milei has dismissed Marcelo Alejandro Nimo as specialized attaché for Investment Promotion and International Trade at the Argentine embassy in Spain, ending an internal conflict the official had been engaged in with the ambassador in Madrid, Wenceslao Bunge Saravia.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 22:07 UTC

    US-backed talks between Venezuela's two parliaments to begin August 1

    The talks will bring together the National Assembly elected in 2015, with an opposition majority and headed by Figuera, and the 2026 Assembly, controlled by Chavismo and led by Jorge Rodríguez

    The two legislative bodies vying for legitimacy in Venezuela will begin a joint working agenda on August 1, promoted by the United States, with the stated aim of moving toward a democratic reinstitutionalization of the country, more than six months after the capture of former President Nicolás Maduro.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:33 UTC

    Colombia: Petro bars military sites for inauguration; De la Espriella says he will go ahead

    The president-elect, who adopted a military salute and the slogan “Firm for the homeland” during his campaign, has expressed his intention to hold the ceremony in Popayán

    Colombia's outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, has ordered that no military facility be used for the inauguration of his successor, Abelardo de la Espriella, scheduled for August 7. The president-elect responded that he will maintain his intention to be sworn in at a garrison in the south of the country, deepening the standoff between the two men less than a month before the handover.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:24 UTC

    Trump says US is investigating whether Iran stores drones in Cuba

    “If they do have that, and they might very well have that, we'll take care of it in short order. We're not going to allow that to happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office

    US President Donald Trump said on Monday that his government is investigating whether Iran is storing drones in Cuba and warned that Washington would act if their presence on the island is confirmed, though he framed the matter as a hypothesis that has not been verified.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2026 - 07:06 UTC

    Venezuela names its envoy to Washington as foreign minister in cabinet reshuffle

    Plasencia, 53, is a career diplomat with more than three decades in Venezuela's foreign service

    Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, has appointed diplomat Félix Plasencia to head a new Ministry of Foreign Relations and Trade, merging the diplomatic and foreign trade portfolios. Plasencia had until now served as Venezuela's chief of mission in the United States, and replaces Yvan Gil, foreign minister since 2023, who moves to the Ministry of Science and Technology.