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Montevideo, March 17th 2026 - 08:19 UTC

Politics

  • 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.

  • Monday, February 6th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

    State of emergency spread to other Peruvian departments

    Boluarte's decree also extended a curfew between 8 pm and 4 am already in force in Puno to the other departments involved

    At least 26 people were arrested, including an underaged suspect, late Saturday in Lima amid new demonstrations against the government of President Dina Boluarte, it was reported. Five people -4 protesters and 1 police officer- also needed to be hospitalized due to the injuries sustained during the street clashes in which law enforcement used pellets and teargas. Several journalists have denounced having been beaten by the Police trying to control peasant unions, private organizations, and student groups.

  • Monday, February 6th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Garimpeiros leave Yanomami land before armed forces takeover

    The illegal miners even asked to be rescued by the federal troops

    Illegal miners known as garimpeiros are beginning to leave the lands of the Yanomami indigenous peoples after a federal raid to evict them was announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara told reporters Sunday.

  • Sunday, February 5th 2023 - 09:31 UTC

    Ecuador's president takes a gamble with a multi-item referendum

    Lasso needs to revalidate his credentials through an electoral victory. Otherwise, his days as President will be steeply uphill

    The Ecuadorian Government of President Guillermo Lasso will seek Sunday to revamp an administration with waning popularity through a referendum whereby the citizenry is to allegedly set the guidelines for the future steps of the conservative head of state.

  • Sunday, February 5th 2023 - 09:25 UTC

    BCRA's REM report forecasts 2023 inflation in Argentina will reach 97.6%

    The new inflationary projections would mean a 0.8% improvement from 2022's figures but still one of the worst in the world

    With a Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January 2023 expected at 5.6%, Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) issued a report Friday forecasting that inflation for the entire year would be 97.6% while the country's Gross Domestic Product (the sum of all services and goods traded) will only grow by 0.5%.

  • Sunday, February 5th 2023 - 09:16 UTC

    US shoots down Chinese spying balloon on Biden's orders

    An operation is now underway to collect the debris, according to reports

    The United States Air Force Saturday shot down a spying balloon belonging to China while it was flying over territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean, Washington confirmed. At the time it was shot down, it was reported to be about 18 km above sea level and 11 km off the coast.

  • Sunday, February 5th 2023 - 08:57 UTC

    São Paulo aircraft carrier sank despite ecologists' opposition

    The sinking of the São Paulo came around at the same time as an offer from the Saudi group Sela who was willing to pay US$ 5.9 million for the structure. Too late.

    Brazil finally sank in a controlled manner the hull of what once was the pride of the South American country's Navy: the aircraft carrier São Paulo, also known as Foch during her time with the French Navy.

  • Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 12:05 UTC

    At least 13 killed in Chile’s wildfires

    Gabriel Boric said there were “indications” that some of the fires were caused by “unauthorized burning.”

    Chilean authorities Friday reported at least 13 people lost their lives amid the raging wildfire that is hitting several parts of the South American country. Two people died when a firefighting helicopter crashed during a mission and 11 others in Santa Juana.

  • Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 11:50 UTC

    Alleged Chinese “spy” balloon causing further rift between Washington and Beijing

    Uncorroborated reports said Beijing had admitted owning the balloon but claimed it was a civilian aircraft “for research purposes, mainly meteorological”

    US authorities said they detected a Chinese spy balloon flying over Latin America in addition to the one already spotted over US airspace which has triggered further diplomatic discrepancies between Washington and Beijing.

  • Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 11:44 UTC

    De Moraes orders probe into Senator Do Val's statements regarding coup

    Do Val was to record De Moraes saying something inconvenient to be later induced into certain decisions

    After Senator Marcos Do Val (Podemos-ES) claimed to have participated in a meeting with former President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a coup d'état, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes ordered Friday an investigation into such allegations.