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Montevideo, December 31st 2025 - 20:39 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 07:46 UTC

    Trump names hard line hawk as national security advisor

    Bolton served in the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, and held roles in the Justice and State departments

    John Bolton, chosen by President Donald Trump late Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser, is a career lawyer and diplomat who has long been on the president's short list to join the administration. The lifelong conservative has taken hawkish public stances on such issues as North Korea's nuclear program.

  • Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 07:34 UTC

    Vatican's communications chief resigns following manipulation of news

    Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Monsignor Dario Vigano and named deputy, Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz (Pic), to run the Secretariat for Communications.

    The head of the Vatican's communications department resigned this week over a scandal about a letter from the retired pope that he mischaracterized in public and then had digitally manipulated in a photograph sent to the media.

  • Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 07:07 UTC

    Falklands second flight: Minister Faurie confirms the interest of seven airlines

    Foreign minister Faurie was summoned to the Senate foreign affairs committee to defend the current administration's foreign policy

    Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie this week revealed to the Senate foreign affairs committee that seven airlines have stated their interest in servicing a second commercial flight between the Falkland Islands and the continent: two from Uruguay, two from Chile and three from Brazil.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 22:16 UTC

    Trump calls for reciprocity and reveals US$ 60bn tariffs in China imports

    Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the US Trade Representative to publish a proposed list of products in 15 days, with an intended tariff increase

    President Donald Trump announced on Thursday his plans for tariffs on up to US$60 billion annually in Chinese imports, designed as retaliation for an administration report that will outline Beijing’s violation of U.S. intellectual property rights.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 22:04 UTC

    Falklands ready for the Argentine next of kin visit

    The Argentine Memorial which holds 123 graves of Argentine combatants from the 1982 conflict

    The Falkland Islands government has announced details of next Monday's visit of relatives of the Argentine fallen soldiers whose remains, at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin, were recently identified by a special team led by the International Red Cross. The release states the following:

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 16:00 UTC

    Brazil instructs federal communications agencies to reduce coverage of the murder of Marielle Franco

    The deaths of Marielle Franco and her chauffer Gomes have prompted a series of protests throughout Brazil and in other countries

    Journalists and radio broadcasters at Empresa Brasileira de Comunicação (Brazil Communication Company, or EBC), a federal public agency, protested on March 20 against direction given by company managers to reduce coverage of the murders of Marielle Franco, a city councilor for Rio de Janeiro, and her driver Anderson Gomes, both killed in a March 4 shooting.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 14:53 UTC

    Cambridge Analytica partner in Brazil under prosecutor investigation

    André Torretta, the president of the Brazilian firm, is known as a pioneer in specialized consulting among Brazil's C-suite business leaders

    Brazilian prosecutors on Wednesday said they had opened an investigation into whether London-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica acted illegally in Brazil, as controversy over the firm’s data harvesting practices spreads across the globe.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 14:26 UTC

    Lula could have to begin serving his 12-year sentence next week

    The three-judge appeals court in southern Brazil will rule on Monday on the final procedural appeals by Lula’s legal team.

    Brazilian federal appeals court will make a final ruling next week on a corruption conviction of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a decision that could see the popular politician ordered to prison shortly afterward, the court’s press office said on Wednesday.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 14:04 UTC

    Zuckenberg admitted the network “made mistakes”, and was willing to testify before Congress

    In a statement Zuckerberg admitted a “breach of trust” occurred and with CNN said he was “really sorry”, and pledged action against “rogue apps”.

    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network “made mistakes” that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy.Cambridge Analytica is accused of improperly using the data on behalf of political clients. In a statement Zuckerberg said a “breach of trust” had occurred. In a later interview with CNN he said he was “really sorry”, and pledged to take action against “rogue apps”.

  • Thursday, March 22nd 2018 - 11:33 UTC

    Red Cross: Rising humanitarian needs among Venezuelans entering Colombia

    In 2017 alone, an estimated 796,000 people entered Colombia from Venezuela through official migration points

    The Colombian Red Cross Society have been working for more than a year to support people arriving in Colombia and travelling through the country. Aid workers are warning of rising vulnerabilities among people crossing the Colombian-Venezuelan border and “are calling on the international community to increase support for humanitarian efforts”, said a statement published by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) at Geneva.