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Montevideo, July 22nd 2025 - 20:11 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Lula pledges to boost shipyard and oil and gas industries

    Lula also criticized the Central Bank for keeping the basic Selic interest rate at 13.75%, for which “there is no justification”

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Monday his intention to boost the shipbuilding and oil and gas industries with the state-owned Petrobras and the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) as vectors for public investments, Xinhua reported from Rio de Janeiro.

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Top Argentine official makes the round of talks and contacts in Spain to complain about Falklands fishing industry

    Argentine Ambassador in Madrid Ricardo Alfonsin (left) and Secretary Guillermo Carmona (right), with Spanish counterparts during the round of meetings in Spain's capital

    Guillermo Carmona, secretary of the Malvinas, Antarctica and Southern Atlantic Islands held a round of political talks in Spain in the framework of the bi-national cooperation understandings contemplated in the Buenos Aires Declaration from 2021. The document was signed by Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and his Spanish peer Pedro Sánchez and addressed the Argentina/Spain joint strategic action plan 2021/2023 referred to the Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar Questions as well as Antarctic and oceans cooperation.

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

    Foreign Office Travel Advice for the Falklands and Chile

    Most visits to the Falkland Islands are trouble-free and there is little crime or disorder.

    The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has updated (February 7) its travel advises to the Falkland Islands and to Chile, with the usual main points of its reports: Summary, Coronavirus, Safety and Security, Terrorism, Local Laws and Customs, Entry requirements, Natural Disasters, Health, Money, Travel Advice and Support.

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    East Anglia University team joins RRS Sir Attenborough in Antarctica science trials

    It is hoped the trials will give more understanding of the key processes controlling Southern Ocean carbon uptake. Photo: Jamie Anderson

    Researchers from the University of East Anglia have joined the UK’s new polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough as it begins its polar science trials in Antarctica. A team of 30 national and international scientists, engineers and technical staff departed the Falkland Islands on January 31 – where for almost two months they will test the ship's science capabilities in deep polar waters.

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    Beijing admits balloon over Latin America is theirs

    Beijing said that shooting down their balloon over the Atlantic Ocean was overproportioned and promised to reserve the right to take the necessary measures

    As US defense forces are beginning to pick up the debris from the Chinese balloon downed during the weekend by the Air Force on President Joseph Biden's orders, the Asian country admitted a second such aircraft last spotted over Colombia belonged to them. Biden said Monday that the Pentagon was in contact with the Latin American countries through which the Chinese balloon passed. The Colombian Air Force reported that “an object” with “characteristics similar to those of a balloon” was detected and monitored “until it left the airspace.”

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:04 UTC

    Ecuador's referendum a major setback for President Lasso

    In addition to losing the referendum, the opposition leftwing Citizen Revolution party of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) won the mayoralties of Quito and Guayaquil

    Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso Monday admitted defeat in Sunday's referendum through which he intended to garner enough consensus for the remainder of his term after 18 months in office. Citizens were asked, among other issues, to decide whether national offenders could be extradited abroad to face drug-trafficking charges. Lasso favored the idea, a slim majority did not with 47% of the votes counted.

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 09:50 UTC

    Garimpo is lethal, Brazilian minister says

    “What is being reported is still far from showing the reality there,” Guajarara said after visiting the Yanomami land

    Brazil's Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara described the presence of illegal mining (known locally as “garimpo”) in the Yanomami Indigenous Land as destructive, Agencia Brasil reported Monday.

  • Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 09:20 UTC

    Falkland Islands reduced access to Customs and Immigration

    Customs and Immigration at MPC international airport

    The Falkland Islands Customs and Immigration would like to inform the public that due to staff illness, they will be closed to visits from the general public until Thursday 9 February.

  • Monday, February 6th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

    The Indigenous-led movement shaking a divided Peru

    Peru's protests stemmed from the south, close to Bolivia

    By Eduardo Gamarra (*) – Peru is in the midst of a political and civil crisis. Weeks of protest have culminated in thousands descending on the capital amid violent clashes and running battles with police.

  • Monday, February 6th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

    Ecuador's referendum goes on uneventfully

    The results will be released as soon as vote counting is done, Atamaint said

    Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced Sunday that turnout for the national referendum called by President Guillermo Lasso seeking endorsement after 18 months in office had reached 80.74 %. Ecuadorians were also voting to elect the members of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), in addition to municipal authorities.