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Montevideo, March 20th 2026 - 11:56 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

    Defense ministers to create “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group”

    Novillo highlighted Argentina's arms industry and aircraft maintenance capabilities

    Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Monday welcomed his Bolivian counterpart Edmundo Novillo Aguilar in Buenos Aires. During the meeting, an agreement to create the so-called “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group” was signed.

  • Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    Eichmann audios recorded in Argentina to be released

    An Israeli documentary to be released shortly features voice recordings of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Mossad in the early 1960s in San Fernando, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was reported.

  • Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Brazil sacks Petrobras CEO yet again

    Paes would become the fourth Petrobras chairman under President Bolsonaro

    Brazil's Government has replaced yet again the chairman of the state-run oil company Petrobras in which private investors also have a share.

  • Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

    Biden on Asian tour amid growing military threats from China, N.Korea

    Biden vowed to lead the international community to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific based on the rule of law

    US President Joseph Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Monday at Tokyo's State House to discuss their two countries' joint deterrence and response capabilities in case of a military conflict involving China, which has sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone in recent weeks.

  • Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 08:55 UTC

    Ukraine war: Poland wants Norway to share windfall gains from oil and gas sales

    “They should share these excess profits. It’s not normal, it’s unjust. This is an indirect preying on the war started by Putin,” PM Morawiecki said

    Norway which is western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, and also has one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend, according to Tsvetana Parakova from Oilprice.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 23:54 UTC

    Lacalle Pou with a green message in London: Uruguay “is among the strongest democracies in the world”

    While Britain watches the latest episode of the Boris Johnson Show, President Lacalle Pou presents an innovative green agenda

    By Graham Bound for MercoPress (London) – Only on the most serene of news-days might a visit to the United Kingdom by the President of Uruguay make headlines in the country’s newspapers and broadcast bulletins. For a little while it actually looked as if there might be just such a benign news environment. But as President Luis Lacalle Pou took his seat at Canning House, the Latin America and Iberia think tank, on Monday evening to deliver a lecture titled “Uruguay, a Reliable Gateway to South America – Opportunities in Green Finance”, he must have known that he had been totally eclipsed by his host, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:43 UTC

    Alberto Fernández eyes Antarctica for May 25 celebration

    The Argentine Government is planning to “relaunch” its administration May 25 under the motto “People first”

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández has announced he would spend the May 25 National Holiday at a school in the Esperanza Base in Antarctica, weather permitting. The move would allow him to skip the traditional religious service at Buenos Aires' cathedral.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:39 UTC

    Boric enacts minimum-wage increase bill for Chileans

    Boric praised how both Houses of Congress unanimously passed the bill

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday signed into law a minimum wage hike so that “no one is left behind.”

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:37 UTC

    Nearly 34,000 arrested under El Salvador's state of emergency

    Murders had been deescalating since 2016 until an alleged breach of an agreement between a leading gang and Bukele's administration

    Around 34,000 people have been placed under arrest thanks to the state of emergency in force in El Salvador since March 27, it was reported Monday as Congress is set to agree on yet another extension of the measure. Human rights organizations have warned of arbitrary arrests.

  • Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:34 UTC

    Argentina launches website to boost “nature” tourism

    Nature tourism is in great demand, Minister Lammens explained

    Argentina's Ministry of Tourism has launched a new website called “La Ruta Natural” (The Natural Route) to promote domestic trips to the various attractions nationwide.