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Montevideo, July 3rd 2025 - 11:03 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 23:06 UTC

    Falklands, upcoming visit to the Islands by next of kin of Argentine fallen soldiers

    The Argentine military cemetery which next of kin will be visiting

    The Falkland Islands Government has announced that on Wednesday 04 December, a private charter is scheduled to arrive at Mount Pleasant Airport, carrying the next of kin of fallen Argentine soldiers during the 1982 conflict..

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 15:51 UTC

    Pepe Mujica criticizes Cristina Kirchner: “The old lady is at the head of Peronism screwing around”

    Mujica expressed broader concern about democratic regression in Latin America, citing examples like Nicaragua. “What pisses me off the most is when they play at democracy and then cheat,” he lamented

    Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica has taken aim at prominent Latin American leaders, criticizing a lack of generational renewal in politics and authoritarian trends in the region. Speaking from his home in Montevideo, Mujica called out Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner, accusing her of clinging to power rather than transitioning into an advisory role. “There’s the old Cristina at the head of Peronism, instead of leaving room for new generations. How hard it is for her to let go of the cake!” Mujica quipped.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    France's Parliament gives thumbs down to EU-Mercosur FTA

    France's Senate joined the Lower House in an unusual display of consensus in an otherwise politically divided country

    France's Parliament was unusually united this week in rejecting the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), thus yielding to protests from local farmers who fear unfair competition. The Senate gave its thumbs down Thursday, just one day after the Lower House did the same by 484 votes against 70.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    Orsi meeting Lula on first trip abroad after electoral win

    Orsi sees in Lula a key ally

    Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi is scheduled to meet Friday in Brasilia with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to discuss the future relationship between both countries after the Broad Front's (Frente Amplio - FA) candidate is inaugurated on March 1. Orsi defeated Álvaro Delgado of the ruling Multicolor coalition in the Nov. 24 runoff and chose Brazil as his first destination abroad to launch his administration's diplomatic agenda.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

    Brazil's devaluation hits all-time high exchange rate

    Haddad's measures were deemed insufficient to tackle the country's fiscal imbalance

    The US dollar fell an iota short of crossing the R$ 6 barrier after measures announced by the Brazilian Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva raised uneasiness in South America's largest country Thursday. The local currency has fallen 23.4% this year and 3.36% this week alone.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

    Falklands: Responses to Equality and Discrimination survey

    People from some seventy different countries live in the Falklands

    The Falkland Islands Government would like to thank everyone who responded to the Community Views Survey on Equality and Discrimination in the Falkland Islands.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Falklands’ lawmakers meet the farming community

    Dr. Andrea Clausen, Director of Natural Resources

    Falkland Islands members of the Legislative Assembly, heads of Government Departments, and advisors are visiting Camp this weekend to meet the Farming community for a session of questions and answers.

  • Friday, November 29th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Colombia says more time needed for visas with UK

    The time before Christmas is not the best to implement the visa requirement, Ambassador Barreras argued

    Colombia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Roy Barreras asked Home Secretary Yvette Cooper for a meeting to postpone the application of the visa requirement saying it was highly untimely to set it into force ahead of the Christmas Holidays.

  • Thursday, November 28th 2024 - 21:47 UTC

    Argentine Embassy in Caracas with no electricity and water

    One of the pictures posted by Urruchurtu on social media showing Venezuelan Police outside the Embassy

    Venezuelan Police kept harassing the building of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas now guarded by Brazil since the diplomatic breakup. President Nicolás Maduro's regime targets six aides of opposition leader María Corina Machado who sought asylum there but were never granted safe passage to the airport after Buenos Aires agreed to welcome them. The premises have been without electricity for the past five days and with no water supply for two, the refugees said on social media.

  • Thursday, November 28th 2024 - 21:19 UTC

    De Moraes says there is no such thing as self-regulation of social media

    Social media are “a monetized business,” De Moraes argued

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes said Thursday that the Jan. 8, 2023, uprising in the country's capital proved that self-regulation of social networks does not work as its defenders claim it does. The magistrate spoke of the system's “bankruptcy” as the STF resumed reviewing the liability of companies operating social networks for the content posted by users, Agencia Brasil reported.