Politics

• Friday, September 17th 2021 - 07:16 UTC

  Argimón becomes Uruguay's interim president until Sept. 24

  

  Due to President Luis Lacalle Pou's trip to Mexico and the United States on his first mission abroad lasting more than 48 hours, Vice President Beatriz Argimón has become the country's interim head of state.

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 10:02 UTC

  Mass resignation in Argentina's Government after electoral loss

  

  Last Sunday's defeat at the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections finally seem to have taken its toll on Argentina's Frente de Todos (FdT) ruling coalition as members of cabinet loyal to Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner handed in their resignations to President Alberto Fernández, it was reported.

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Ortega leads Nicaragua towards authoritarianism, says Blinken

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday said Nicaraguan President and former guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega was leading the Central American country “down the dark path of authoritarianism,” as most political opponents are arrested or charged with treason.

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Brazil’s STF suspends revisiting case involving ancestral lands

  

  Brazil's Federal Superior Court (STF) Wednesday decided to call off debating a land case which involves requests from indigenous groups, at the request of one Justice, who asked for “more time”

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  UK/US/Australia defense and security partnership in Indo-Pacific; nuke subs for Wallabies

  

  A landmark defence and security partnership was agreed on Wednesday by the leaders of the UK, the United States and Australia which will protect and defend shared interests in the Indo-Pacific.

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Paraguayan Government seeks to deepen Mercosur trade agreement with Egypt

  

  Paraguay's Finance Ministry sought to deepen the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Mercosur and Egypt Wednesday when the II Meeting of the accord's Joint Committee convened.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguay on 24-hour strike for lost wages and in favor of repealing Government’s Law

  

  Uruguay is going through a 24-hour strike called by the labour union Pit-Cnt to demand better wages and working conditions, to defend national development and state-run companies and, most importantly, to say “yes” to the repeal through a referendum 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC).

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Remains of Argentine combatants identified at last by ICRC mission

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Second Humanitarian Project Plan has identified the remains of four Argentine combatants from the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war buried in grave C.1.10 at Darwin's military cemetery under wrong names, it was announced Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Maduro appoints jailed ally, with pending extradition to US, to political talks with the opposition in Mexico

  

  Venezuela has announced that it will incorporate the government delegation in negotiations with the political opposition in Mexico, Alex Saab, a close ally jailed in Cape Verde, Africa who is to be extradited to the United States on corruption and money laundering charges.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Argentine government said to be eyeing injecting pesos into the market to bounce back from electoral loss

  

  The Frente de Todos coalition ruling Argentina is said to be going through an internal crisis following last Sunday's results at the Mandatory, Simultaneous and Open Primary (PASO) elections where it lost some 4.8 million votes nationwide from when Alberto Fernández was chosen to the presidency two years ago.