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Montevideo, August 12th 2025 - 03:36 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

    The Economist: Uruguay's democracy is one of the strongest in the world

    Photo: Sebastián Astorga

    Uruguay has been recognized as the only full democracy in South America and the leading democracy in Latin America, according to the Democracy Index 2023 compiled by the Economist Group and published by The Economist magazine.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 15:02 UTC

    Argentine Falklands War correspondent appointed head of Malvinas War Directorate in Senate

    ”I had been assigned a censor, an Army captain who when he accompanied me said 'this can be filmed, this can't', (…) The things he didn't like he would force me to erase them,” Kasanzew said.

    Argentina's Vice-President Victoria Villarruel has named Nicolás Kasanzew, the sole Argentine journalist who covered the entire Falklands War conflict in 1982, as head of the Malvinas War Directorate in the Senate of the South American country. Villarruel, daughter of a former combatant, made the announcement via social media.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 12:14 UTC

    The magic of football: for China Falklands are British and no longer Argentine

    The Beijing Football Association reacted to the alleged sight by cancelling both of Argentina's friendly matches as part of a tour of mainland China next month.

    Disgruntled Chinese football fans, blaming Argentine top star Lionel Messi, are now advocating that the Falklands are British, --certainly not Argentine--.Messi failed to play in an exhibition match in Hong Kong, for which the Chinese public paid a considerable sum, and furious frustrated fans are calling the captain of the Argentine World Cup winner a “thief” and contradicting Beijing's official stance that the Malvinas are a relic of British colonialism and that the Islands belong to Argentina.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Evidence about Bolsonaro's alleged coup plotting meetings mount

    As things get more complicated on the judiciary front, Bolsonaro plans a street demonstration

    Brazil's Federal Police (PF) said Wednesday that it had managed to corroborate Lt Col Mauro Cid's allegations about former President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged coup meetings during which would have discussed a plan with the military brass ahead of the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising in Brasilia. These encounters reportedly took place at the Alvorada Palace while Bolsonaro was still in office and at a house in Lago Sul, Brasília, which functioned as campaign headquarters for the 2022 elections.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Presidents Milei and Peña review bilateral issues at Casa Rosada

    During their encounter at Casa Rosada, Milei and Peña also discussed the case of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway, among other issues

    Presidents Santiago Peña of Paraguay and Javier Milei of Argentina met Wednesday in Buenos Aires to discuss bilateral interests, such as the Yacyretá Binational Entity (EBY), the border crossing between both countries, trade integration, and free trade agreements between Mercosur and other regions.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    Uruguay must pay some US$ 80 million for the 2012 closing of Pluna

    Mujica argued that these things happen because litigations of this nature are always held in New York or Paris

    After a ruling issued Tuesday by a World Bank arbitration tribunal, the Uruguayan State will have to pay some US$ 30 million over the closing of the former flag carrier Pluna, which has triggered reciprocal accusations between the country's main political forces ahead of this year's presidential elections.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    US-Uruguay holding key ministerial meeting in DC

    Omar Paganini will head the Uruguayan delegation

    The second US-Uruguay Annual Bilateral Inter-Ministerial Dialogue meeting is to take place Thursday in Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols and Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini will co-chair the dialogue.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Speaker of UK House of Commons on five-day visit to St. Elena

    Sir Lindsay was delighted to be able to present Jonathan with his Guinness World Record certificate recognizing him as the oldest living chelonian

    The Speaker of the House of Commons Sir c MP, arrived at St Helena to begin his five-day visit to the island. This is the first ever visit by a Speaker of the House of Commons to the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, in the south Atlantic.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 09:02 UTC

    Protests expected in Asunción after opposition Senator is dismissed

    Kattya González was removed from Paraguay's Upper House for alleged influence peddling (pic ABC)

    Paraguayan opposition Senator Kattya González of the National Encounter Party (PEN) was expelled from the Upper House Wednesday after 23 of her fellow lawmakers who responded to former President Horacio Cartes so voted, it was reported in Asunción.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 08:39 UTC

    Welsh Parliament party visit to Falklands, collaboration and closer ties anticipated

    The Welsh Parliament members with Falklands lawmakers

    With the purpose of building on the conversations and strengthening the relationship between the Falkland Islands and Wales, a multi-party delegation of four members from the Sennedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) visited the Islands for seven days, James Evans MS, Laura Anne Jones MS, Alun Davies MS, and Jack Sargent MS, accompanied by the Falklands Government Representative in London, Richard Hyslop.