Politics

Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:45 UTC
Former Uruguayan President Sanguinetti compares his country with Argentina during a celebration of Democracy

Former two-time Uruguayan President Julio María Sanguinetti Thursday claimed “Argentina infects us with adjectives,” as he appeared together with former heads of state Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera and José “Pepe” Mujica during a celebration of Democracy staged at Montevideo's Parliament building.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:32 UTC
Legislator from the Argentine province of Corrientes shot during a campaign speech

Peronist provincial lawmaker Miguel Arias was shot at during the party's closing ceremony not far from the town of Paso de Los Libres as the province of Corrientes gets ready for this coming Sunday's elñections where the offices of Governor and Vice Governor will be at stake.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
ISIS spin-off causes detonations at Kabul airport killing nearly 100 people

At least 85 to 90 people died Thursday after an ISIS detachment attack on Kabul International Airport. US President Joseph Biden promised to avenge the deaths of 13 soldiers from his country. The flag over the White House flies at half-mast.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:41 UTC
Uruguayan Lower House expected to consider an investigation committee into 21 years of Tourism ministry affairs

Uruguayan lawmakers from the ruling coalition and opposition finally agreed to propose to the full Lower House an investigation committee to analyze Tourism ministry performance and affairs from 2010 to 2021, particularly in reference to the contracting of publicity.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:15 UTC
Argentina and Uruguay ladies love and celebrate the Falklands

Ladies support for the Falkland Islands in the River Plate is expanding. As happened just a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires when two historians, one of them with an international reputation, acknowledged the Falklands belong to the Falkland Islanders and doubt Argentina's claim, in Uruguay a member from a ruling coalition junior party last 14 August twitted the hashtag “HappyFalklandsDay”.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 17:14 UTC
Protesters rally in front of Uruguayan President during Independence Day celebrations

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou faced protesters during Wednesday's Independence Day celebrations and even engaged in talks with them amid verbal aggressions.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 11:55 UTC
Falkland’s ExCo agrees to proceed with improved ITQ scheme

Yesterday the Executive Council (ExCo) approved the referral of the Fisheries (Conservations and Management) (Amendment) Bill 2021 to the Legislative Assembly next month.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:14 UTC
Another suspect in Buenos Aires bombing case appointed into Iran's government

A former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who is said to have been at the meeting in which it was decided to attack the Jewish AMIA association in 1994 in Buenos Aires has been appointed Vice President of Economic Affairs by President Ebrahim Raisi, it was announced Wednesday.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:08 UTC
“Mercosur needs urgent modernization” and Brazil can't be prisoner of an institutional accord

Brazilian Economy minister Paulo Guedes told Congress that Mercosur no longer has for Brazil the same importance it had when it was launched, a kind of jumping board for the country to advance in competition terms.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 08:33 UTC
Celebration in Ushuaia: cruise season authorized to begin on 20 October

It's official, Argentina announced the opening of the 2021/2022 bi-oceanic and Antarctic cruise season next 20 October. The administrative resolution 834/2021 was published in the Official Gazette, triggering immediate satisfaction from Tierra del Fuego province whose governor contacted the Tourism and Sports minister Matías Lammens.