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Montevideo, July 13th 2025 - 11:49 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Argentina: US SOUTHCOM Chief passes through – consequences to be seen shortly?

    Admiral Holsey's recent trip should produce visible results shortly, it is speculated

    Argentine nationalist sectors are concerned that US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Chief Admiral Alvin Holsey's recent visit could signal the beginning of a sovereignty handover to Washington, which President Javier Milei is believed to favor.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:46 UTC

    Paraguay's BCP announces overoptimistic GDP projection

    The impact of global tariffs “will probably be more indirect,” Carvallo argued

    Despite many experts believing otherwise, Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) has raised its GDP growth projection for 2025 from 3.8% to 4% amid geopolitical tensions and potential trade wars. BCP President Carlos Carvallo defended the adjustment, citing strong economic performance and advanced data showing better-than-expected dynamics in several sectors, except agriculture, which was impacted by drought-affected soybean production.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Nicaragua to leave UNESCO to deepen absence of press freedom

    La Prensa has been operating online from exile since 2021

    Nicaragua announced it would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), effective Dec. 31, 2026, after it granted the 2025 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to the opposition newspaper La Prensa. The regime of President Daniel Ortega said the accolade was “unacceptable” and accused the publication of promoting violence and fostering anti-Nicaraguan values.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Trump wants Alcatraz reopened as a prison, not a tourist attraction

    “The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order and JUSTICE,” Trump claimed

    US President Donald Trump announced this weekend plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison on an island near San Francisco, which closed in 1963. The Republican leader intends to use the facility to house America’s “most violent” criminals, including repeat offenders and potentially undocumented immigrants with alleged criminal records. He directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and FBI to execute this plan, emphasizing it as a symbol of “Law, Order, and Justice.”

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

    Chile: Presidential candidate Tohá dating Minister Marcel

    Boric was never kept in the dark, Tohá explained

    Former Chilean Interior Minister and presidential hopeful on behalf of the Democratic Socialism coalition, Carolina Tohá, admitted during an interview this weekend that she was romantically involved with Finance Minister Mario Marcel. It all began gradually in 2022, during her first year as a Cabinet member, she explained. Their professional bond dates back to the 1990s when Marcel was her boss.

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 06:11 UTC

    Argentina remembers the sinking of General Belgrano on May 2nd 1982

    Half the crew of ARA General Belgrano, 323 men lost their lives (Pic gov.ar)

    Last Friday, 2nd May Argentina held a remembrance ceremony of the sinking of ARA General Belgrano, which was the largest single loss of lives during the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982.The ceremony took place at the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base headed by Defense minister Luis Petri and all the commanders of the Argentine armed forces three services.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Mercosur FMs pledge to deepen regional integration amid global trade challenges

    For the first time in 34 years, top diplomats of all member countries met twice in less than a month

    Foreign Ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)—namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—gathered Friday in Buenos Aires at the San Martín Palace to advance regional integration amid global trade changes. They focused on eliminating intra-zone trade barriers, strengthening regional value chains, harmonizing regulations, and enhancing physical and digital integration.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Farage does it again: Reform UK trashes Labour and Tories, becomes main opposition

    Reform UK advanced both in Labour and Tory areas, with candidate Sarah Pochin beating Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby House of Commons by-election

    Populist Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party surged into the lead in local elections across England and grabbed one of Labour’s safest parliamentary seats, trashing Conservatives and becoming head of Britain´s opposition, underline UK media.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Pepe Mujica criticizes PIT-CNT central labor for inaction under Lacalle Pou

    “This talk of prioritizing the country is all just talk,” Mujica also said about Uruguayan politicians

    Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica criticized the PIT-CNT central labor union for its inaction during Luis Lacalle Pou’s government (2020-205), noting the absence of strikes and claiming the group only became active under the new leftist government of Yamandú Orsi, which took office on March 1.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Chimney installed for Pope-electing conclave

    Meanwhile, the Vatican's press office denied Cardinal Parolin was ill

    Vatican firefighters installed a chimney on the Sistine Chapel roof for the upcoming conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor. The chimney, connected to two stoves—one from 1939 for burning ballots and a 2005 model for chemical additives—will emit black smoke for no election, white smoke for a new pope, and yellow smoke for pre-conclave testing.