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Montevideo, July 16th 2025 - 22:18 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    Mexico, AMLO’s False Promises and waiting for the next president

    AMLO pledged to improve the economy, fight inequality and corruption. As his six-year term enters its final stretch, it is clear that he will fail to keep his word.

    By Jorge G. Castañeda, NEW YORK – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has reached the beginning of the end. AMLO, as he is widely known, was inaugurated on December 1, 2018, having promised to improve Mexico’s economy, reduce poverty and inequality, and tackle corruption and violence, all while strengthening the country’s infant democracy, and will leave office on September 30, 2024. With his term more over than not, most of what he was going to achieve has already been achieved – and it’s not much.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Lula plans to rebuild bridges with South America

    Lula's first trip after his inauguration will be to Argentina

    Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will seek to rebuild ties with its South American neighbors and regain a leading role in the fight against climate change under future Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, Agencia Brasil reported Monday.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    State of Sao Paulo insists in privatization of the Port of Santos

    Under the Tarciso de Freitas plan, the state-owned Santos Port Authority (SPA), would be fully privatized. This is what the PT administration does not want.

    Governor-elect of São Paulo state, Tarcísio de Freitas, is hoping to have a direct conversation with president-elect Lula da Silva and the future Minister of Ports, Márcio França, to try to convince the new federal administration to move forward with the auction of the Port of Santos, the largest and busiest in Latin America.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

    Venezuela closer to Mercosur and Argentina

    Ambassador Oscar Laborde has already organized several trade missions to Caracas

    Venezuela's return to Mercosur, the resumption of flights between Buenos Aires and Caracas, and an invitation to President Nicolás Maduro to attend the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires next month are some of the signs showing the Argentine government's rapprochement with Chavismo. In addition to that, a rise in bilateral trade of up to 60% is expected.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 08:19 UTC

    Peruvian generals arrested in corruption scandal involving Castillo

    Castillo is also under investigation for influence peddling

    Six Peruvian generals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a corruption ring involving former President Pedro Castillo Terrones, the country's Attorney General's Office announced Monday.

  • Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 08:11 UTC

    Opposition not happy with President Fernández paying CABA with bonds

    “The TX31 bond with which Alberto Fernández wants to pay CABA is a payment that is not quoted in the market and is not negotiated,” UCR Deputy Mario Negri pointed out

    After Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced Monday that the federal government would abide by last week's Supreme Court (CSJN) ruling and pay the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) its share of the so-called co-participation funds but not with pesos, Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta's administration filed a complaint before the Supreme Court.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:40 UTC

    Argentine gov't now says it will pay City of Buenos Aires's tax share

    Fernández said he will use bonds instead of pesos

    The Argentine government announced Monday that it will pay the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) its share of the so-called co-participation funds after saying last week that the Supreme Court ruling ordering the measure was untenable and that further appeals “in extremis” would be filed.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

    Bolsonaro supporter arrested for pushing for military coup in Brazil

    “The fight against terrorists and troublemakers will be intensified. Democracy has won and will win,” Dino also pointed out on social media

    A President Jair Bolsonaro follower was arrested during the weekend for planning an attack to prevent President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva from taking office on Jan. 1.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

    Charles III message, “Christmas, celebrating the power of light overcoming darkness”

    “My mother’s belief in the power of that light was an essential part of her faith in God, but also her faith in people and it is one which I share”

    It was King Charles III first Christmas message, watched by millions in the UK and Commonwealth nations. In the midst of a nation in recession, the increasing cost of living which has triggered a rash of strikes in the public sector, the King paid tribute to his mother Queen Elizabeth II's wisdom and compassion, and delivered words of hope and comfort to all those suffering from hardship and struggling to keep their families fed and warm.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

    Argentine Cabinet Chief has busy Christmas Day in Israel

    Rabbi Lau was there during the meeting between Manzur and Herzog

    Argentina's Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur spent Christmas Day in Israel, where he arrived last Thursday at the invitation of Chief Rabbi David Baruch Lau.