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Montevideo, March 15th 2026 - 01:09 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

    Pence calls on Maduro to suspend sham elections and asks OAS to suspend Venezuela

    “We call on Maduro to suspend the sham elections, and hold real elections,” the vice president told the gathering in Washington.

    US Vice President Mike Pence on Monday urged Venezuela to suspend a divisive May 20 election he denounced as a “sham,” as Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Nicolas Maduro's regime. In an address to the Organization of American States, Pence slammed the upcoming presidential vote -- boycotted by the opposition and branded illegitimate by much of the international community.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

    Should we celebrate Karl Marx on his 200th birthday?

    Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism was born 200 years ago on May 5.

    By Barbara Foley (*)

    Some would argue that Karl Marx, author of “Capital,” has been proven wrong on just about everything he wrote. The founder of scientific socialism was born 200 years ago on May 5.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 07:18 UTC

    Odebrecht corruption in Argentina: all changed when ex president Kirchner died

    The Odebrecht official revealed that the president of the Argentine Construction Chamber, Carlos Wagner, was interlocutor of the agreement

    A leading manager of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht involved in corrupting government officials in virtually all Latin American countries revealed that millions of dollars in kickbacks were delivered in Argentina to pay for the natural gas pipelines network expansion contract.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 06:57 UTC

    Argentine Peso: the worst of the storm seems to be over...for the time being

    “The Peso may strengthen or weaken ... the idea is that there be little volatility,” Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne said on local television on Sunday night

    The Argentine Peso closed slightly weaker on Monday, though analysts remained optimistic the government and central bank had curbed a run on the currency with a massive rate hike and lower fiscal deficit target last week. . The local currency opened stronger on Monday but closed down 0.41%, at 21.97 per U.S. dollar. The Merval stock index ended down 3.43% and traders said investors remained cautious.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

    Malvinas veterans abused by their officers are demanding justice from IACHR

    “I was completing my time when the Malvinas were recovered. We were all called back and on 11 April, we were in the Islands”, explained Silvio Katz (Pic Vis a Vis)

    The Malvinas Islands ex Combatants Center, CECIM has requested the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, to intercede before the Argentine government and demand a commitment that human rights abuses suffered by the Argentine conscripts during the South Atlantic conflict will be investigated. The case has 120 plaintiffs and 95 defendants.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 20:24 UTC

    Uruguay: No position on the FTA with Chile after an official plenary

    Economy Minister Danilo Astori said that the government's opening policy is not supported.

    The plenary of the leftist coalition Broad Front concluded on Sunday with a motion that postergates de decision over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Chile, defining to leave the decision on whether or not to support the agreement, delaying the debate to a future plenary whose date is not yet defined. The decision was voted after counting an erroneous sum of the votes in the first instance in which the motion to debate the issue in the plenary had won. However, the votes of the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) had been put on the wrong side.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 09:28 UTC

    Argentina's storm: “Macri is not a political leader, he's a businessman”

    Mirtha Legrand and Jorge Lanata sharing the night program

    “President Macri is not a political leader, he's a businessman, that's why he doesn't like to come out on national television; he should come closer to the people, he should be more political and less technical”. The comment belongs to Jorge Lanata probably the most outstanding investigative reporter in Argentina, and who heads the hate list of ex president Cristina Fernandez.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

    Fed fines Goldman Sachs Group for unsound foreign exchange trading

    The firm failed to detect and address its traders' use of electronic chat-rooms to communicate with competitors about trading positions, said the Fed report

    The United States Federal Reserve Board announced that it has fined The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., US$ 54.75 million for the firm's unsafe and unsound practices in its foreign exchange (FX) trading business.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

    Lead case in UK: Cambridge Analytica must turn in all personal information on a US academic

    The ICO served notice to SCL Elections, Cambridge Analytica's parent, to provide the information it holds on David Carroll; failure would be a criminal offence

    Britain's data privacy watchdog has ordered Cambridge Analytica to hand over all the personal information it holds on a U.S. academic, confirming the right of people abroad to seek data held by a UK firm. Data privacy activists say that it sets a precedent that would enable millions of other U.S. voters to request information that the company had collected on them.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:14 UTC

    US Navy resurrecting Second Fleet to patrol US coast and north Atlantic

    The fleet oversaw the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, rescued Americans in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury in October 1983

    With tensions between NATO and Russia rising, the U.S. military is resurrecting a fleet to patrol the Atlantic Ocean and help respond to global contingencies. The U.S. Second Fleet will provide forces along the U.S. coast and in the northern Atlantic Ocean, according to Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, who made the announcement Friday during a change of command ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia.