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Montevideo, March 16th 2026 - 05:20 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 15:57 UTC

    Pre COP 28 summit exposes deep differences and frustrations

    The little-known talks in Bonn, take place each year ahead of the UN landmark COP climate summits, lay the groundwork for response to global warming

    Diplomats from around the globe are meeting in the German city of Bonn this week to level out plans that are key to global efforts to stop the planet heating and to adapt to violent weather conditions.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 15:22 UTC

    France still has objections to the EU/ Mercosur trade agreement

    EU foreign affairs Joseph Borrell said EU and Latin American countries have ”a common history and shared values ... but this partnership has been taken for granted or even neglected

    Ahead of July's EU summit with Latin American and Caribbean leaders in July, the first since 2015, the European Commission has unveiled a trade-oriented strategy to renew ties with a region that has been somewhat sidelined by the bloc in a chaotic few years in global politics. Approving the trade agreement with Mercosur is one of EU's priorities but there is French conditioning.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 15:14 UTC

    Falklands budget, “it won't be easy for the private sector”

    Mike Summers, “government competes constantly with the private sector for labor in the middle and lower ranks”

    The latest announcements on the Falkland Islands budget have not gone without comments from the Falklands Chamber of Commerce and its current president Mike Summers, according to an interview on the local television channel.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Fitch upgrades Uruguay's rating

    Uruguay Economy Ministry Azucena Arbeleche

    Thanks to Uruguay's ”solid fiscal performance that allowed it to absorb the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic, added to the track record of compliance with the fiscal framework, which has improved its credibility, increased resilience to economic shocks and reduced the risk of a potential increase in the stock of public debt.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Petro warns “soft coup” against him will not prevail

    Castillo was alone. Petro is not alone, the Colombian President stressed.

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Wednesday said he could face the same fate as Peru's Pedro Castillo Terrones as Congress might try to impeach him out of office. “Once the reforms are overthrown, they intend to destroy me in the Commission of Accusations,” Petro argued while urging lawmakers not to betray “the will of the people”.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Sonnenholzner to run for president of Ecuador

    Sonnenholzner was vice president under Lenin Moreno

    Former Ecuadorian Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner Wednesday confirmed he will enter this year's snap elections called after President Guillermo Lasso enacted the so-called crossed-death mechanism which meant dissolving Parliament and ruling by decree until new lawmakers and a new head of state are chosen.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

    Chile's Constitutional Council instated

    I hope that all of us are aware of what we can achieve when we are capable of putting the common good above our particular interests, Boric said

    Chile's Constitutional Council, a body of 50 people that will pen a new Constitution, was instated Wednesday in Santiago in a new attempt to change the 1980 Magna Carta inherited from Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The first try succumbed in a plebiscite in September of 2022.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 08:45 UTC

    Pope Francis recovering well after hernia surgery

    “The surgery was completed: it was carried out without complications and lasted three hours,” the Vatican said in a statement

    Argentina-born Pope Francis Wednesday underwent abdominal hernia surgery “without complications” at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he will remain for a few days, it was reported. The Pontiff is expected to resume his activities by June 18, the Vatican confirmed.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    Falklands agrees on main topics of constitutional review

    Attorney General Simon Young said general submissions on the Constitution were welcome but that members of the public might also want to hold fire until the committee reaches the various topics

    The Falklands Islands Select Committee on the Constitutional Review has decided the order in which it is going to deal with the topics to be covered. The first issue to be looked at will be the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms chapter of the Constitution at a meeting that will possibly take place as soon as the middle of June.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Falklands: dual nationality voting rights triggers contention

    MLA Teslyn Barkman proposed a change to the order. She said that the issue of voting rights for those with dual nationality needed to be looked at first

    Those who did turn up to the second meeting of the Falkland Islands Select Committee on Constitutional Review on May 25 were greeted by a numbered list of 10 topics projected onto a large screen. The topics were listed in a proposed order for consideration that was produced by what was called “a small group”.