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Montevideo, May 6th 2026 - 02:10 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Falklands, Argentina’s Milei two lanes approach

    President Javier Milei before the General Assembly complains UN has not made advances in helping Argentina with its claims over the South Atlantic Islands

    Argentine cabinet chief Guillermo Francos received this week, recently arrived new UK ambassador David Cairns, and according to reports cooperation, trade and bilateral investments were the issues addressed by the two top officials.

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 10:53 UTC

    US revoking Petro's visa for pro-Palestine rally

    Petro announced an initiative before the UN to form an army to fight the alleged Israeli genocide in Gaza

    US authorities will be revoking Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa after the Latin American leader held a pro-Palestine demonstration in New York the day after his participation at the 80th United Nations General Assembly.

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Mayors of São Paulo and Buenos Aires discuss key economic axis

    Jorge Macri discussed with Ricardo Nunes advancing a joint agenda based on their sister city relationship in place since 1999

    The mayors of South America's two largest cities, São Paulo and Buenos Aires, gathered in the Brazilian metropolis to discuss strengthening cooperation and promoting investments, with a focus on establishing an axis as the primary hub of urban competitiveness and economic development in the region.

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 10:42 UTC

    Uruguay insists on two-state solution for Palestinian crisis

    Orsi and Lubetkin reiterated Uruguay's “concrete support for the agreement launched by France and Saudi Arabia and approved by 150 countries”

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi and Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin met on Friday in New York with Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations Riad Mansur on the sidelines of the global body's 80th General Assembly.

  • Saturday, September 27th 2025 - 08:56 UTC

    Falklands, First Chilean Consul in the Islands was FIC General Manager in 1877

    FIC General Manager Frederick E. Cobb, appointed first Chilean consul to the Falkland Islands in 1877

    This week 148 years ago, Queen Victoria signed and approved the appointment of British citizen Frederick E. Cobb as the first Consul of Chile in the Falkland Islands. According to the Chilean digital News agency Infogate, the message was published in the “Stanley Gazette”, September 1877.

  • Friday, September 26th 2025 - 21:35 UTC

    Veterans bring CFK donations to Argentine Malvinas/Falklands cemetery

    CFK met with the veterans before their trip and posted a video of the encounter on X

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) posted on social media that a group of veterans from the 1982 South Atlantic War with the United Kingdom over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands were bringing to the local Darwin cemetery a series of donations from her and her late husband -and also former President- Néstor Kirchner to honor the fallen.

  • Friday, September 26th 2025 - 21:02 UTC

    Bolivian president says World War III imminent

    It was Arce's last speech as president to the General Assembly, as he will be leaving office in November

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora told the 80th United Nations General Assembly that mankind was on the brink of World War III, which would be notably different from all previous conflicts. Arce focused on an urgent call for peace amid clashing economic systems.

  • Friday, September 26th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Milei and Netanyahu meet in New York

    The meeting reinforced Milei's “absolute support” for Israel

    Argentine President Javier Milei met in New York on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.

  • Friday, September 26th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Uruguay's La Libertad Avanza officially approved

    Quintana describes LLA Uruguay as a libertarian group focused on reducing state interventionism

    Uruguay's Electoral Court officially recognized the local version of political party La Libertad Avanza (LLA) this week, as its resolution allowing it to compete in national, departmental, and municipal elections was published in the Official Gazette. The far-right movement is inspired by and closely linked to its Argentine counterpart of President Javier Milei.

  • Friday, September 26th 2025 - 10:26 UTC

    Kicillof consolidates himself as Argentina's opposition leader

    Kicillof was warmly welcomed by the continent's leaders Milei despised

    During his appearance on Wednesday in New York at the tribute to the late Uruguayan former President José Pepe Mujica, the Governor of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, consolidated his role as the country's opposition stalwart.