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Montevideo, July 13th 2025 - 03:59 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, September 13th 2022 - 08:34 UTC

    Rio Santiago shipyards working on amphibious toward state ownership

    The South Korean amphibious model is already in service with Peru's Navy and also produced locally

    The Argentine Rio Santiago Shipyards (ARS) are making plans to build a unit for the local Navy, which might turn out to be an amphibious ship of the LPD (Landing Platform Dock) type or a tank landing ship of the LST (Landing Ship Tank) type, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 19:19 UTC

    Progress reported in Lugo's health

    “Yes, we can speak of progress,” Querey said

    Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was reported Monday to be recovering well from the stroke he had on Aug. 10 and for which he underwent surgery in Asunción, fellow Senator Jorge Querey, who is also Lugo's personal physician, said.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 19:17 UTC

    Bolsonaro plans to attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral

    Once again, it remains to be seen whether Bolsonaro, who is unvaccinated against COVID-19, is allowed to enter British or US territory.

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed he will be attending Queen Elizabeth II's funeral next Monday in London, from where he will fly straight to New York for the United Nations General Assembly the following day. Traditionally, the Brazilian president's speech opens the conference.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

    Bolsonaro not allowed to use Independence Day celebrations for political gain

    Bolsonaro was accused of using a tool “inaccessible to any of the other competitors”

    Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Benedito Goncalves partially granted a petition from former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva requesting incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro be banned from using images of the September 7 celebrations for his own political campaign ahead of next month's elections.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

    Violence marks commemoration of 1973 coup in Santiago

    Some demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at Carabineros police. Boric insisted dialogue was the way. Photo: Carlos Vera / Reuters

    Riots and looting were reported Sunday in Santiago during demonstrations marking another anniversary of the coup d'état that in 1973 toppled then-President Salvador Allende and started the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet which lasted until 1990.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

    Argentina formalizes its BRICS membership application

    Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero visited India, and last month received in Buenos Aires his Indian counterpart, minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

    Argentina has sent a BRICS' formal membership application to Chinese authorities this week. Beijing since last June current holds the chair of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South African powerful trade and cooperation block

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

    Hearing for the privatization of Brazil's major port again postponed

    The port of Santos is also the largest of South America, and crucial for Sao Paulo manufacturing structure.

    The public hearing for the privatization of Brazil's largest and most dynamic port terminal has been again postponed, for a third time, following on an announcement from the Brazilian National Social Development Bank (BNDES). The purpose of such an action, referred to the Port of Santos, is to give time to more recommendations from the private sector to improve tender conditions.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Assange supporters stage demonstrations in Mexico City

    AMLO has offered political asylum to Assange but he is uunder arrest in Britain pending extradition to the US to stand trial for espionage

    Relatives and supporters of Julian Assange's gathered Sunday in fron of the US Embassy in Mexico City to protest against the impending extradition of the Wikileaks founder to the United States to face espionage charges, on the wake of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's arrival.

  • Monday, September 12th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

    Biden quotes 9/11 message from Queen Elizabeth

    Biden also underscored the American people's character “of sacrifice and love, of generosity and grace, of strength and resilience”

    US President Joseph Biden Sunday said in front of the Pentagon building that his administration was committed to unblocking the trials that have been pending for years at the maximum security prison at Guantanamo Bay because “we will never forget,” the Sept. 11 attacks.

  • Sunday, September 11th 2022 - 23:59 UTC

    Argentina rejects Falklands’ “illegitimate stand” in Montevideo; British authorities responded

    Falklands' delegation at Expo Prado focuses on deepening the commercial and cultural relationship with Uruguay. Photo: MercoPress

    Argentina rejected on Saturday the presence of a stand of the “illegitimate government” of the Falkland Islands, for which it maintains a sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom, at the agro-industrial fair Expo Prado, held in Montevideo, according to a statement released by the Argentine Foreign Ministry.