Politics

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

  Chile reinforcing its military presence in Magallanes Region and Antarctica

  

  Chile announced the reinforcement of its military capacities in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of the country with a plan that includes renewal of aircraft, modernization of armored vehicles, increased vigilance and presence in the austral territory and Antarctica, updating of military strategy based on experiences from the current war scenarios in Europe and Middle East.

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:00 UTC

  Falklands at Labour Conference in Liverpool

  

  British political parties are holding their annual round of conferences and Labour, in government, has chosen the city of Liverpool for a gathering that started on Sunday, 27 September and will last for three days until 30th September.

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

  The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

  

  An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

• Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC

  Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

  

  By Daniel Hannan (*)
  
  As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.

• Sunday, September 27th 2026 - 12:26 UTC

  Brazil reaches the election with its top court under suspicion and the candidates tied

  

  Brazil votes next Sunday in a presidential election that arrives with the Supreme Federal Court mired in its worst institutional crisis since the return to democracy, the right's candidate formally under investigation in the same case, and the two leading contenders tied within the margin of error in every poll.

• Saturday, September 26th 2026 - 11:06 UTC

  De la Espriella announces the reopening of oil exploration in Colombia, including fracking

  

  Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced on Friday that his government will “fully” reopen hydrocarbon exploration and the signing of new contracts, including hydraulic fracturing, during the swearing-in of businessman Joaquín Gutiérrez as president of Ecopetrol, the country's largest company.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 23:26 UTC

  Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”

  

  The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC

  Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC

  “The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 09:37 UTC

  Trump and Xi end the state visit with the trade truce extended and no substantive deals

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington ended on Thursday with a two-month extension of the bilateral trade truce, agreed before the meeting itself, and no progress on the central issues dividing the two powers: tariffs, rare earths, agricultural purchases, Taiwan and export restrictions on advanced chips.