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Montevideo, July 30th 2025 - 13:43 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, April 26th 2023 - 03:26 UTC

    A Latin woman is president Joe Biden's reelection campaign manager

    Julie Chavez Rodriguez, 45, is the granddaughter of the famed farm labor leader Cesar Chavez and labor activist Helen Fabela Chavez

    A Latin woman and Senior White House adviser Julie Chavez Rodriguez, 45, will serve as President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign manager. She is the granddaughter of the famed labor leader Cesar Chavez and labor activist Helen Fabela Chavez.

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 19:46 UTC

    Argentine gov't losing grip: peso keeps plummeting

    ”We have been experiencing an atypical situation of rumors, versions, false reports, and their consequent impact on financial instruments linked to the dollar,” Massa explained

    By Mordechai Taji – Argentina's authorities are losing grip of the economy as the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar hit AR$ 497 Tuesday before recoiling to AR$ 487, then bouncing back to AR$ 490, down again to AR$ 487 and back up once more to AR$ 495 amid growing unrest.

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 12:18 UTC

    Brazil passes law requiring race and ethnicity data in employee records

    Santarém highlights that racism in the workplace is easy to notice

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed into law an amendment to the Statute of Racial Equality, requiring the inclusion of race and ethnicity information in administrative employee records in the public and private sectors. The move is intended to “promote ethnic equality and combat social inequalities resulting from racism,” according to the federal government. Law 14.553/23 also mandates a survey conducted every five years by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics to measure the percentage of occupation of these segments in the public sector. The government aims to produce information that can help overcome racial stigmas and guide public policy implementation.

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 12:09 UTC

    Mexican Interior Secretary denies rumors about AMLO's health

    “Speculations are the product of some people's ill will,” Secretary López said

    Mexican Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López Monday denied President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had suffered a heart attack or was even hospitalized following local media reports in that regard. AMLO is in isolation due to Covid-19, it was reported.

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 11:52 UTC

    Lula wants partnerships with private companies in developments to come

    The president of any country must attract foreign capital by offering credibility and political, social, and legal stability, Lula argued

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Monday told a group of businessmen in the Portuguese city of Porto that his country was not willing to sell any public company but it would nevertheless welcome private entrepreneurship “to partner with us in what we need to create anew.”

  • Tuesday, April 25th 2023 - 11:47 UTC

    Deportation flights to Havana resumed

    Deportation flights from the US to Cuba were suspended in December 2020, shortly before Biden took office

    The United States has resumed its deportation flights to Cuba of the so-called undesirable migrants after the procedures were halted during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed.

  • Monday, April 24th 2023 - 17:05 UTC

    Worldwide military expenditure increased 3,7% in 2022, SIPRI report

    The war in Ukraine and Russia's all out attacks, have led European countries in particular to pay renewed attention to their military budgets

    The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a leading global security think tank, reported that countries around the world are spending record amounts of money in defense budgets. Some of the reasons for this new trend, inflation, the war in Ukraine, US efforts to outpace China.

  • Monday, April 24th 2023 - 11:03 UTC

    FIFA's U20 World Cup in Argentina and a toponymy controversy over “Malvinas” stadium

    The Malvinas stadium in Mendoza will be named simply Mendoza

    The FIFA Council has confirmed Argentina as the host of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2023. The decision follows the removal of the original tournament host, Indonesia, as well as a subsequent bid submitted by the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and an on-site inspection by a FIFA delegation to the South American country last week.

  • Monday, April 24th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Brazilian official says Mercosur-EU deal may be closed this year

    None of the obstacles is insurmountable, Elias explained

    Márcio Elias, executive secretary of Brazil's Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services, said Sunday that the federal government intends to close the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union this year.

  • Monday, April 24th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    Portugal and Brazil do not think alike regarding Ukraine

    “Portugal's position is different,” President Rebelo de Sousa told Lula. Photo: Paulo Novais / AFP

    While Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted in Lisbon on the need for a “negotiated” peace between Russia and Ukraine, his Portuguese hosts were quick to show their disagreement with an initiative that could “benefit the offender.”