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Montevideo, June 7th 2025 - 19:47 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:49 UTC

    Falklands oil explorers replace costly drilling in the south-east basin

    The Eirik Rude semi-submersible platform is currently drilling a second well at Isobel Deep in the north Falkland basin

    Three oil explorers drilling in the Falkland Islands, including Houston based Noble Energy have shelved plans to drill a second well in the south and east Falklands following the steep drop in oil prices, one of the partners said on Monday. Partners, which also include London-listed Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL) and Edison International, said they would continue drilling in other parts of the region.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:42 UTC

    Argentina's Chief Justice urges “end to impunity” and peoples' frustration

    “Judges and prosecutors must make a great effort to give society a clear answer,” said Lorenzetti, urging ”to end with impunity” (Pic DYN)

    Argentina's Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti called on the judges and prosecutors to make a greater effort towards a transparent society and urged for an “end to impunity” and peoples' frustrations with the court system. He was speaking in reference to the ongoing investigation into special prosecutor's Alberto Nisman's death on 18 January.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:29 UTC

    Cuban-American Senator Rubio launches 2016 campaign for the White House

    The conservative 43-year-old first-term lawmaker, son of poor immigrants from Cuba, presented the 2016 presidential election as “a generational choice”

    US Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign at a rally on Monday in Miami, calling for a new era of American leadership that is not “stuck in the 20th century.”

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:19 UTC

    Germany's greatest post WWII writer and Nobel Prize winner dies at 87

    For many he was the voice of a German generation that came of age in World War II and bore the burden of their parents' guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis.

    German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer's duty was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 10:03 UTC

    Intellectual icon of Latin America's left in the seventies and eighties dies in Montevideo

    “The Open Veins of Latin America” became a classic text for the left in the region and propelled the Eduardo Hughes Galeano to fame

    Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, whose The Open Veins of Latin America became a classic text for the left in the region and propelled the author to fame, died on Monday at age 74. Galeano had been ill with lung cancer for several months.

  • Monday, April 13th 2015 - 09:08 UTC

    Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Brazil to protest against Rousseff

    Police put turnout at 682,000 people who marched in 195 cities, while organizers gave a total estimate of 1.5 million, half of them in Sao Paulo business center

    Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday, venting anger over government corruption and a souring economy a month after protests gathered more than a million people. With cries of “Dilma out” and “corrupt government,” marchers -- many wearing the yellow and green jerseys of the national football team -- called for President Dilma Rousseff's ouster and an end to impunity for corruption.

  • Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

    Francis triggers fury from Turkey recalling the genocide of the Armenian people

    Francis spoke of genocide and the duty to “honor their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester.”

    Pope Francis uttered the word “genocide” on Sunday to describe the mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking fury from Turkey which slammed the term as “far from historical reality”.

  • Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:48 UTC

    Hillary Clinton launches presidential bid as 'champion for regular US citizens”

    “Everyday Americans need a champion. I want to be that champion,” Clinton said in a video released on the internet that announced her run.

    Hillary Clinton has promised to be a champion for regular US citizens as she kicked off a long-awaited second run for the White House as the commanding Democratic front runner. Clinton, who lost a bruising Democratic nominating battle to Barack Obama in 2008, was expected to travel soon to Iowa, the state that holds the kickoff nominating contest in early 2016.

  • Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:31 UTC

    Argentina's AMIA 1994 terrorist attack trial will be held next 6 August

    “We have great expectations in the trial,” Rodrigo Borda, who represents Memoria Activa, which represents relatives of the July 1994 attack victims

    Argentina's Memoria Activa, one of the most active groups that gather together relatives of the victims of the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, celebrated the decision to hold a trial (6 August) for the cover-up of the bombing this year, which was announced on Friday after weeks of heated controversy between the Executive, the Supreme Court and the tribunal in charge of judging the case.

  • Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:17 UTC

    Uruguay/Brazil meeting to attempt an advance in Mercosur/EU trade talks

    Rodolfo Nin Novoa revealed to the Uruguayan congress that this week he will be meeting with his counterpart and Mauro Vieira in Brasilia

    Uruguay and Brazil foreign ministers Rodolfo Nin Novoa and Mauro Vieira will be meeting this week in Brasilia in yet another attempt to push forward the stalled negotiations for a trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, according to the minutes of a meeting of the Uruguayan official with members of the Foreign Affairs committee.