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Montevideo, July 22nd 2025 - 12:40 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

    ELN announces ceasefire so that Colombians may vote in peace

    “A peace process with the ELN is the best opportunity to address priority issues,” the rebel group said

    Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas Monday announced they would enforce a ceasefire during the upcoming presidential elections, in what has been perceived as a step towards peace talks with the future administration.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 20:34 UTC

    Separate shootings rock US during the weekend

    “We've seen enough of this,” Gov. Hochul said.

    The United States was shaken this past weekend by various shooting sprees nationwide. On Saturday, ten people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and three others were injured and on Sunday similar events in California and Texas, have left at least three more people dead.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 18:10 UTC

    Bolsonaro insists Argentina and Chile might end up like Cuba

    Bolsonaro also stress all ministers had “carte blanche” to do whatever they saw best for the population

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday insisted on social media that he feared Argentina and Chile were following the paths of Venezuela and Cuba because although Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez were already dead, the “consequences of communism” remained.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Uruguay is Paraguay's gateway to the world, both Presidents agree

    Abdo awarded Lacalle the highest distinction possible

    Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez Sunday stressed his country needed Uruguay's help to secure a sovereign presence to have a way out to the sea so that its exports can reach the world and that Montevideo “has always been a port of exit.”

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    Milei: “I will not apologize for having a penis”

    “I don't have to feel ashamed of being a man, white, blond with light blue eyes,” he added

    Argentine Congressman Javier Milei Saturday announced that if he is elected President next year one of his first measures would be to suppress the Ministry of Women (officially known as “Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity”).

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    Shaky weekend as Santiago mourned slain reporter

    “Francisca did not leave us. They killed her,” wrote Señal 3, the outlet she worked for

    Riots rocked the Chilean capital city of Santiago as protesters demanded justice for slain reporter Francisca Sandoval, who died recently after being fatally shot while covering the May 1 Labor Day demonstrations.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

    Murdered Paraguayan Prosecutor laid to rest

    Former Judge Francisco Pecci said drug traffickers murdered my son “for doing his job well”

    Paraguayan anti-drug and organized crime Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who was murdered in cold blood last week while honeymooning in an exclusive beach resort in Colombia, was laid to rest at Asunción's Recoleta Cemetery Sunday.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Colombian election in two weeks could represent a historic change in the country's history

    The first round of presidential election will be held 29 may, and a runoff, unless a clear majority on 19 June. Opinion polls show Petro with a significant lead

    The specter of assassination is again haunting the electoral campaign in Colombia, where a left-wing candidate has a real chance of becoming president for the first time in a country that has a history of political careers ending in a hail of bullets.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

    Finland, Sweden confirm they would seek full NATO membership

    Finnish PM Marin said her country hoped the ratification process “would be as short as possible and it would go very smoothly”

    Finland Sunday confirmed it would apply for membership to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), thus changing the geopolitical scenario in Europe less than three months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

    Argentina preparing to become a BRICS member with support from China and Brazil

    President Fernandez allegedly will be participating of a BRICS leaders summit next month invited by president Xi

    Argentina has been invited by Chinese president Xi Jinping to participate in three BRICS events taking place in the coming four weeks. The first will be a get-together of political parties, social organizations and think tanks, a second on May 20th, is a summit of foreign ministers from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, BRICS full members, and the Argentine minister guest. Finally, on June24 a summit of the five-plus one leaders is scheduled.