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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 22:15 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Bolivian gov't announces countermeasures to Evistas

    So far 91 policemen have been injured in clashes with the Evistas

    Bolivian authorities announced Sunday that they would be launching “Operation Recovering the Homeland” after followers of former President Evo Morales seized three military barracks last week, keeping some 200 troops hostage.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

    Chile: 76% disapprove of La Moneda's management of Monsalve case

    Not many respondents believed Boric should have demanded Monsalve's resignation first thing

    The latest poll published by Plaza Pública Cadem this weekend showed that 76% of respondents during the fifth week of October disapproved of President Gabriel Boric Font's handling of the Manuel Monsalve case while 44% believed the head of state himself was to blame. In addition, 32% considered that the official most affected by the scandal was Interior Minister Carolina Tohá.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Rio to tackle criminal organizations' cash flow

    According to Dos Santos, 47% of all the rifles seized this year in the state’s municipalities were made in the US.

    Federal government and Rio de Janeiro State authorities agreed last week to create a joint working group to target the cash flow of criminal rings operating in the area, Agencia Brasil reported. The measure was adopted after three people were killed during a gunfight with Rio Police.

  • Monday, November 4th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Evo's legal front reaches Argentina

    Del Castillo said Bolivia would be attentive to any requirement that might arrive from Buenos Aires

    Argentine authorities have filed a criminal complaint against former Bolivian President Evo Morales for the alleged rape and human trafficking of four teenage girls while he was under asylum in the country, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced during the weekend. Morales will be prosecuted for allegedly “committing crimes of human trafficking and sexual abuse,” Bullrich explained.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 10:26 UTC

    Paraguay wants to strengthen ties with UK

    Ramírez and Matthews met on the sidelines of a convention in Montreal to address the Ukrainian War crisis

    Paraguay's Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano had a busy week in Montreal, Canada, where he participated in the Ministerial Conference on the Human Dimension of the Ukraine Peace Formula and met with British Foreign Office Director General for Latin America Harriet Matthews on the event's sidelines, among other engagements.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Evo goes on hunger strike, calls for end to road blockades to seek dialogue

    Morales called for friendly international help to make Arce (L) understand.....

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday that he would go on a hunger strike as the conflict between him and his former Minister of Economy and ally, and current president, Luis Arce Catacora, continues to escalate.

  • Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 09:37 UTC

    Machado thanks Italian FM for endorsing PUD's alleged win

    Italy's leadership is crucial to accompany the transition to democracy in Venezuela, Machado highlighted

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani for supporting an orderly transition from the Bolivarian regime, which intends to cling to power through a fraudulent vote count after the July 28 elections.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 21:40 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve resurfaces in Viña del Mar

    “My silence is due to respect for due process,” Monsalve argued

    After a fortnight virtually in hiding, Chile's former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsavle came back into the limelight Friday in Viña del Mar. His whereabouts had been unknown since resigning following rape charges filed against him.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 17:10 UTC

    Lacalle Pou hints at possible return in 2029, talks about regional relations

    The president suggested he would remain engaged in politics, saying, “I will be surrounded by people and politics, because that makes me feel a better person.”

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, months from completing his term, hinted at a possible return in the 2029 presidential election but left the door open.

  • Friday, November 1st 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Bukele's El Salvador to send troops to Haiti

    Bukele has already claimed he can fix the Haitian gang crisis as he did in his country

    El Salvador's Congress gave its nod this week to the sending of troops to help violence-torn Haiti where crime gangs reign supreme. At first, El Salvador's assistance will be focused on medevac operations in coordination with the United Nations (UN) blue helmets deployed in the Caribbean country. The Parliamentarian decision thus ratified with 57 votes out of 60 the so-called ”Agreement on the Condition of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMAS) in Haiti” signed by the diplomatic missions of El Salvador and Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS).