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Montevideo, March 17th 2026 - 14:01 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 11:47 UTC

    Lula's trip to Argentina to include Antarctica deal

    Under Lula, Brazil is returning to the regional forum it left during the Bolsonaro years

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's trip to Argentina next week will include the signing of a treaty for scientific and logistical cooperation between the two countries' Antarctic stations, Agencia Brasil reported. A gas pipeline will also be on the agenda with President Alberto Fernández.

  • Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Argentina started the Malvinas war, but has yet to admit “we lost that war,” Lanata said

    ''Yes, of course war was started by Argentina. And even worse, to this day we don't understand that we lost that war. Malvinas belongs to the collective imagination of the Argentine people”

    “The Falklands/Malvinas war was triggered by Argentina and what we Argentines do not understand is that we lost that war. Malvinas belongs to the collective imagination of Argentina”. Statements from Argentine renowned independent journalist Jorge Lanata, recently interviewed by a Chilean television program on the current situation and prospects n the neighboring country.

  • Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    UK cost of living: King Charles wants profits from his wind farm be distributed among the public

    In 2022, the annual profits of six wind farms totaled some 1 billion pounds (US$ 1.2 million). The king has asked that this money be redistributed to the public.

    King Charles III has requested that the annual profits from his wind farm deal be directed towards helping the cost of living crisis in the UK rather than support the royal family, the Crown Estate confirmed this week.

  • Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    British PM Sunak fined for riding a car without a seat belt

    Police from Lancashire, where Sunak's car was at the time, did not name the prime minister in their initial announcement, although they gave his age and place of residence.

    British police issued Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a fine on Friday evening for riding in a car without a seat belt in a video clip that Sunak's team had published on social media. Sunak's spokesperson had apologized the previous day for a “brief error of judgment” after people had noticed and criticized the indiscretion published on Sunak's Instagram account.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 18:37 UTC

    Former Brazilian First Lady regarded as possible presidential contender

    Michelle has a good image but Bolsonaro's sons Eduardo and Flávio have political ambitions of their own

    Brazilian rightwing politicians are focusing on former First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro to pick up the baton should her husband be disenfranchised and therefore become ineligible to run in future elections.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 18:33 UTC

    Paraguayan President meets with Pope on second day of Italian tour

    A previous audience between Francis and Abdo had taken place in 2018

    Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Friday paid a visit to the Argentina-born Pope Francis in Vatican City. The encounter, held at 10.30 local time, lasted 20 minutes during which both leaders discussed the fight against poverty and the overcoming of inequalities, in addition to the challenges facing the Abdo administration regarding climate change in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Argentine gov't siding with self-proclaimed machi, Villa Mascardi residents say

    The Lafken Winkul Mapu is not a Villa Mascardi ancestral community, the residents argued

    Residents in the Argentine town of Villa Mascardi deemed unacceptable Thursday the proposal extended by Human Rights Secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti whereby Betiana Colhuan, a self-proclaimed machi (Mapuche leader) who eventually garnered additional support from members of the indigenous community, have access to the land she claims to be sacred to her and her ancestors of the Lafken Winkul Mapu group.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Taiana says UK attitude a “lack of respect for international law”

    The Argentine Blue Helmets took off for Cyprus an Air Force transport Boeing 737 aircraft named “Islas Malvinas”

    Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Thursday demanded once again that Great Britain agrees to discuss the Malvinas/Falklands issue and insisted that the latter's reluctance to do so was a “lack of respect for international law.” Taiana also argued that “the powerful should not use force to impose their interests.”

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

    Lula announces German Chancellor due in Brazil this month

    Lula and Scholz are also expected to discuss bilateral trade and the growth of the extreme right

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva said Thursday in an interview with GloboNews that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz should arrive in Brasilia on Jan. 30 together with members of the European country's cabinet and a group of executives representing large German companies, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

    Brazil: TSE agrees to yet another investigation targetting Bolsonaro

    Justice Gonçalves found that there was enough evidence to warrant the opening of the inquest

    Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice Benedito Gonçalves acquiesced Thursday to a request from President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's Workers' Party (PT) to open an investigation against former President Jair Bolsonaro for his abuse of power in the 2022 elections.