Politics

• Monday, November 18th 2024 - 09:18 UTC

  Presidents of Bolivia and Paraguay arrive in Rio for G20 guest appearances

  

  Presidents Luis Arce Catacora of Bolivia and Santiago Peña of Paraguay landed Sunday night in Rio de Janeiro to participate as a guest of the G20 Summit, to be held between Nov. 18 and 19 in the former Brazilian capital.

• Monday, November 18th 2024 - 08:40 UTC

  Uruguayan presidential candidates hold key debate one week before runoff

  

  At a time when all polls indicate that former Canelones Mayor (Governor) Yamandú Orsi of the opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) is the frontrunner for Uruguay's Nov. 24 runoff against Álvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party and Multicolor coalition, both candidates held the mandatory debate on Sunday evening, during which they reviewed human development, security, economy, knowledge, and labor.

• Monday, November 18th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

  Guterres says “spirit of consensus” needed

  

  United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the “Argentine case” ahead of the two-day G20 Summit starting in Rio de Janeiro Tuesday and called for a “spirit of consensus” to move forward.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 11:07 UTC

  British ambassador presents diplomatic credentials to Uruguayan president

  

  The new British ambassador in Uruguay, Malcolm Green presented his diplomatic credentials to the Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou on Thursday 14 November, completing the formalities of his post.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentina: Arrest warrants issued against 61 Brasilia rioters

  

  Buenos Aires Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issued arrest warrants for 61 suspects involved in the Jan. 8, 2023, riots in Brasilia, who had sought shelter in the neighboring country, Agencia Brasil reported. Rafecas' measure is the result of the extradition requests filed by Brazilian diplomatic authorities on behalf of case rapporteur Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  HMS Protector with Chilean navy paid homage to British losses at battle of Colonel, November 1914

  

  Crew members Sailors from Ice Patrol HMS Protector, A173, and their Chilean allies paid homage to British sailors lost in one of the first great naval actions of World War 1. One hundred and ten years to the day that the Royal and German Navies clashed three dozen miles off the coast of Chile, the icebreaker ship’s crew joined Chilean sailors for a service of remembrance in the city which gave the battle its name: Coronel.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Boluarte and Boric hold meeting during APEC

  

  Presidents Dina Boluarte Zegarra of Peru and Gabriel Boric Font of Chile held a meeting Friday in Lima in the context of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting to celebrate the 202nd anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, and discuss the support to vulnerable populations, SMEs, as well as bilateral trade and other common challenges.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Venezuelan ambassador returns to Brasilia

  

  Venezuela's Ambassador to Brazil Manuel Vadell returned to Brasilia on Thursday after two weeks in Caracas for consultations, thus ending the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The diplomat announced this move through a video published on social networks. He had been summoned to Venezuela on Oct. 30, after Nicolás Maduro's regime said that statements by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Foreign Affairs Advisor Celso Amorim were “interfering and rude.”

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

  Monsalve will remain in custody until Tuesday's hearing

  

  A judge in Santiago Friday adjourned until next Tuesday the arraignment hearing of former Interior Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve, who has been charged with allegedly raping a member of his staff. Whether he would also be held accountable for the abuse of power he is believed to have exerted to conceal the facts is to be decided at another stage. In the meantime, Monsalve will remain in custody at an Investigative Police (PDI) detention facility after being arrested on Thursday at his Viña del Mar home.

• Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 09:01 UTC

  Falklands remembers losses at the battle of Coronel

  

  The Falkland Islands also remembers those involved in the naval battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile with the loss of 1,600 lives. In effect a memorial tablet is dedicated in Stanley’s cathedral to Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock and the Officers, Warrant Officers and Men of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth lost at Colonel on 1 November 1914.