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Montevideo, March 12th 2026 - 11:13 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 17:22 UTC

    Small earthquake hits Buenos Aires during G-20 Summit

    Buenos Aires has become some sort of a ghost town due to the summit

    Argentina's National Institute of Seismic Prevention (INPRES) recorded an earthquake rated at 3.8 on the Richter scale at 10.27 am Friday in the city of Buenos Aires and its surroundings, it was reported.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 15:47 UTC

    Princess Anne unveils Lord Cochrane monument in Santiago

    Princess Anne and local authorities during the ceremony which was a part of the “Cochrane 200” activities.

    Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, was in Santiago Thursday to attend the unveiling of a monument honoring local Navy hero Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

    Theresa May in Buenos Aires: good and bad news, Falklands and the Brexit deal

    The Prime Minister was received by the Argentine Senate acting president, Federico Pinedo and several ministers, plus UK ambassador Mark Kent

    A few minutes before midnight Friday, Buenos Aires time, a Royal Air Force transport with Prime Minister Theresa May landed at Ezeiza airport. Mrs May is the first serving UK prime minister to visit the capital Buenos Aires, and the second to travel to Argentina, after Tony Blair in 2001.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

    Air Force One touches down - Trump is in BA for G-20 Summit

    Donald Trump and his wife leave the Air Force One behind at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

    The famous Air Force One, a veritable Flying White House, landed in Ezeiza at 10.10 pm amid tight security measures right on time for US President Donald Trump to rest and get ready for Friday's breakfast meeting with his Argentine colleague Mauricio Macri.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:14 UTC

    Macron has busy pre G-20 Thursday in BA after sloppy airport welcome

    The two heads of state gave a press conference during which they praised each other.

    His presidential plane landed at Buenos Aires' international Ezeiza airport for the G-20 Summit Wednesday night. After parking, France's Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte went down the stairs to greet .... a tarmac worker or two, after which the pair kept walking to their car. Right before getting inside, they were told to go back on their steps and meet Argentine Vicepresident Gabriela Michetti for the official welcome that almost did not happen.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 05:52 UTC

    Falklands voice dismay and praise for second commercial flight

    MLA Roger Spink admitted ”everybody is concerned when you have something that goes via Argentina...that’s why you have these agreements.”

    The proposed second airline service between the Falklands and South America with a once a month stopover in Argentina, drew both strongly voiced concerns and praise at a public meeting held on Wednesday evening in Stanley. Worried citizens suggested Argentina might manipulate Islanders by threatening to interrupt the link to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the longer term.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 22:08 UTC

    British PM expected in BA Thursday evening

    Theresa May will become the first British Prime Minister ever to visit Buenos Aires.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May is arriving Thursday evening at the Ezeiza Airport to participate in the G20 Leaders Summit hosted by Argentina, during which she will hold a series of bilateral meetings with some of her peers, including President Mauricio Macri.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 19:22 UTC

    Consensus or Chaos in the G20 Communiqué?

    By Scott Squires (*)“This article was originally published on the Argentina newsletter The Essential, by The Bubble News Inc. on November 29, 2018”. Ahead of any diplomatic summit, staffers, organizers and aides put in the countless hours of thankless grunt work necessary to make international diplomacy happen.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 17:53 UTC

    No talks with Putin at G-20 over Crimea tensions, says Trump enroute to Argentina

    “I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting,” write Trump from aboard Air Force One.

    US President Donald Trump Thursday shocked the world as he announced he would not be meeting one-on-one with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin during the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires due to the escalating military crisis in Crimea.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 11:12 UTC

    Cannabis-based meds plant opens in Uruguay

    Uruguay was the first country to legalize marijuana in 2013. The legal sale of marijuana for recreational purposes began in July, 2017.

    ICC Labs Inc., a subsidiary of Canada’s Aurora Cannabis Inc., opened Wednesday in Montevideo and became the subcontinent's first producer of cannabis-derived pharmaceuticals with a capacity “to supply almost the entire South American continent,” according to the company's CEO Alejandro Antalich.