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Montevideo, March 16th 2026 - 05:38 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Mexican FM to resign, wants to focus on presidential bid

    Ebrard had already announced in March his intention to be the next president

    Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Tuesday announced that he would be resigning from his job to dedicate himself to the 2024 presidential campaign on behalf of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ebrard, 63, said that he will formally leave his post on June 12.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

    Plan to fight indebtedness launched in Brazil

    Brazil intends to strengthen ties with the United Nations and with the Netherlands, Haddad explained

    The Desenrola plan, a scheme devised by the Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to help people pay their debts, will be accompanied by a financial education program, said Finance Minister Fernando Haddad Tuesday upon elaborating alongside Queen Maxima of The Netherlands on the project launched the day before, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    All money laundering charges against CFK dismissed

    “Without [an] accusation there is no possible criminal proceeding,” Judge Casanello ruled

    All charges against Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) have been dismissed in the money laundering case known as La Ruta del Dinero K (The K Money Route).

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Falklands' 35 students in UK had allowances revised to face cost of living crisis

    MLA Gavin Short (right) asked whether Falklands students were facing financial difficulties while studying overseas and what steps FIG was taking to mitigate this

    In the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly this week MLA Leona Roberts responded to a question from MLA Gavin Short on the subject of whether Falklands students were facing financial difficulties while studying overseas and what steps FIG was taking to mitigate this if it was true.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Aruba, Venezuela resume bilateral trade after 4 years

    Clark said that the initiative was part of President Nicolás Maduro's foreign policy of a “diplomacy of peace”

    After a four-year hiatus, trade between Aruba and Venezuela resumed Monday with the arrival of 80 tons of merchandise from the continent to the island, marking the resumption of trade relations between the two countries.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Pence launches Oval Office bid

    Pence is likely to emerge as a strong religious figure among evangelicals

    Former US Vice President Mike Pence Monday launched his candidacy for the White House, thus setting up an unprecedented clash in the Republican primaries with his former running mate Donald Trump.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    FBI's most damaging spy found dead in his cell

    Hanssen was arrested in February 2001 near his Virginia home

    Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who had been sentenced to life in prison for spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia, was found dead in his cell Monday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.

  • Monday, June 5th 2023 - 13:15 UTC

    Haitian-Chilean national gets life sentence for President Moïse's murder

    Jaar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder

    Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar was sentenced to life in prison by a Miami court for his role in the July 7, 2021, murder of President Jovenel Moïse in Port au Prince when a group of armed men - mostly Colombian mercenaries - stormed his home.

  • Monday, June 5th 2023 - 13:10 UTC

    Peru: State of emergency in Puno extended

    The armed forces have the task of protecting critical national assets

    Peru's government has extended the state of emergency in the Puno region for 60 days, thus allowing the Joint Command of the Armed Forces to retain the Unified Command of the Armed Forces and the National Police amid anti-government protests.

  • Monday, June 5th 2023 - 12:45 UTC

    Argentina closer to becoming a member of BRICS and their Development Bank

    According to the Argentine delegation sources, Rousseff gave Massa the news at the meeting they held at NDB headquarters in Shanghai .

    The board of the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB) will hold a vote for the incorporation of Argentina in August, the entity’s president Dilma Rousseff told Argentina's Economy Minister Sergio Massa currently in China with a numerous delegation in search of money for an almost depleted Central Bank