Politics

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

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Friday, September 26th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

  Paraguay reaches out to Middle East for business, meets Netanyahu

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña held meetings on Thursday in New with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.

• Friday, September 26th 2025 - 09:53 UTC

  Second massacre in 3 days leaves another 17 inmates dead at Ecuadorean jail

  

  A mass riot in the Men's Social Rehabilitation Center in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, on Thursday, resulted in the deaths of at least 17 inmates, marking the country's second deadly prison massacre in a week.

• Friday, September 26th 2025 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House passes bill to move capital to Belem for COP30

  

  Brazil's Lower House on Thursday approved Bill 358/25 to symbolically transfer the country's capital from Brasília to Belém, Pará, during the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) between Nov. 11 and 21. Bill 358/25, proposed by Congresswoman Duda Salabert, now proceeds to the Senate for review.

• Thursday, September 25th 2025 - 09:54 UTC

  Progressive leaders gather to defend democracy and shared values

  

  Progressive South American leaders joined Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday at a United Nations roundtable on “In Defense of Democracy,” an event held in the framework of the 80th General Assembly in New York.