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Montevideo, July 22nd 2025 - 00:49 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

    Lula celebrates new polls and asks Colombians to support Petro

    Comrade Gustavo Petro is the right choice for Colombia and Brazil, Lula also said

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Friday celebrated the results of Datafolha's most recent survey, according to which he might win the Oct. 2 elections, even probably in the first round.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

    Buddies getting together not a Summit, LatAm leaders agree

    Biden must be under lots of pressure, AMLO said

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora said Friday in Havana that buddies getting together was hardly a Summit, in reference to the US Government's decision not to invite Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba to the regional gathering of heads of state next month in Los Angeles.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

    House of Commons Speaker will attend Goose Green Liberation service Sunday

    Sir Hoyle congratulated the Falklands for securing Stanley city status, but would like to take back home photos of signs identifying Stanley as a city

    Sir Lindsay Hoyle Speaker of the House of Commons, currently on a visit to the Falkland Islands announced he will attend Sunday's Goose Green Liberation commemoration, called on the Falklands Legislative to take advantage of his chairmanship to promote initiatives for the benefit of the Islands, and underlined that Islanders can only decide Islanders' self-determination and future.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

    Argentine northern provinces decry fuel shortage

    Cabinet Chief Manzur vowed to solve the issue as soon as possible

    The Governor of the Argentine province of Misiones, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, Friday warned that the shortage of diesel fuel was particularly detrimental to the yerba mate sector, which is halfway through its harvest season

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    Peru's President takes steps to attend Los Angeles Summit

    Castillo was believed to be ideologically closer to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Apparently, it is not the case

    Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones has filed a request before the National Congress to be allowed to leave the country between June 7 and 12 to attend the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    US has more civilian guns than people: 120,5 for every 100 Americans

    United States is one of the only three countries where its citizens have a constitutional right to carry or have a gun

    United States is the only country in the world where civilian guns outnumber people, according to the Swiss base Small Arms Survey (SAS), and is also the country where at least one mass shooting takes place every year, as has tragically happened in Texas, where 19 school children and two teachers were killed by some mentally ill teenager.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Bolsonaro says Brazil's role acknowledged by world leaders

    “Look at what is happening in Argentina, in Chile, in Venezuela” who are suffering the consequences of voting for the “wrong candidate,” Bolsonaro underlined

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro highlighted his country's importance worldwide following the announcement of a one-on-one meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden at the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, in addition to his encounter in February with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

    Europol addresses the growing threat of 3D printed weapons

    Chief Constable Gerda van Leeuwen at the Dutch National Police, said: “The development of 3D printing of firearms is a current and future threat ”

    Law enforcement professionals, ballistic experts, forensic scientists, policymakers and academia have gathered this week in The Hague, the Netherlands, for one of the world’s biggest platforms of exchange on the threat of 3D printed weapons.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Lula regains decisive advantage over Bolsonaro, survey shows

    Lula is once again poised for a first-round decisive victory after Bolsonaro had narrowed the gap in previous weeks

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva is once again on track for a landslide victory at this year's Oct. 2 elections over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, according to Datafolha's latest survey released Thursday.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

    FBI tips Paraguay of possible school massacre copycat

    Paraguayan Police Commissioner Diosnel Alarcón said the suspect behind these threats had been identified

    The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned Paraguayan Police of a local possible encore of the recent massacre at a Texas primary school in which 21 people were killed.