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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 18:40 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Lula says Maduro not Brazil's problem

    “Maduro is a Venezuelan problem, not a Brazilian problem,” Lula said

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in an interview with RedeTV that Nicolás Maduro was “Venezuela's problem,” not his country's. “It seems to me that it was a wise reflection by Lula,” Maduro replied after recent incidents between the two Latin American nations resulting in Caracas being excluded from the BRICS associate membership granted to Bolivia and Cuba, among others.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Falkland Islands representative honors Fallen Heroes on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph

    The Falkland Islands Government Representative, Richard Hyslop, with the wreath laid on behalf of the people and Government of the Falkland Islands.

    Richard Hyslop, the Falkland Islands Government Representative to the UK & Europe, marked Remembrance Sunday by laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in London, paying tribute on behalf of the Falkland Islands Government and people. He joined the UK Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and other representatives from the UK Overseas Territories in honoring those who lost their lives in service to the Allied Forces during the World Wars and the Falklands War.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Milei sees end of currency exchange restrictions on the horizon

    “I enjoy shrinking the State, it gives me enormous pleasure,” Milei told a group of businessmen

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Tuesday that his country could be months away from lifting the currency exchange stocks after the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said October's inflation stood at 2.7%.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Milei says Argentina “entering its best moment in the last 100 years”

    “We are already seeing the bubbles of the diver's fart,” the scholar Milei explained

    Argentine President Javier Milei insisted Monday that his country was “entering its best moment in the last 100 years,” despite what the rank and file may perceive amid soaring prices and dwindling wages. “I say to all private sector players: take advantage of getting on the progress train now because it is cheaper to buy,” added the head of state during a visit to the headquarters of the virtual wallet platform Ualá.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    German Consul in Asunción killed in multiple-car crash

    At the time of impact, Consul Blumenröther was in the car's back seat with her 4-year-old son in her arms

    Germany's Consul General in Asunción (Paraguay) Kristin Blumenröther was killed Sunday in a multiple-car crash on the Luque-San Bernardino road known as Ecovía in which her husband and one of the children also perished. The couple's other child survived the accident and is hospitalized. The Paraguayan administration of President Santiago Peña extended its condolences to Blumenröther and the German Government.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

    Bullrich meets with Gopinath in Washington

    “Without security there is no economic prosperity,” they both concurred

    Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Monday met in Washington DC with International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath to discuss thee South American official's anti-picketing policy. “Without security there is no economic prosperity,” they both concurred.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:38 UTC

    Food insecurity feared in Bolivia after weeks-long road blockades

    “Without diesel, there is no food for 2025,” agricultural growers concurred

    Bolivia's Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (Anapo) President Fernando Romero said Monday that diesel fuel shortages seriously threatened food supply in the short run as well as production in the future. Romero told the Chinese news service Xinhua that hundreds of companies in eastern Bolivia were on the brink of bankruptcy and pointed out that only 20% of rice growers had started planting.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:32 UTC

    US airliner shot at when trying to land in Haiti's main airport

    The Spirit Airlines Airbus A-320 aircraft took several gunshots, it was reported by company sources in the Dominican Republic

    Violence-torn Haiti keeps making headlines worldwide as a Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale was shot at when trying to land at noon local time by gangs surrounding Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the same day that the new interim Prime Minister was sworn in.

  • Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:18 UTC

    Kristallnacht remembered in Uruguay by the entire political spectrum

    Attending the event were President Lacalle Pou, former Presidents Sanguinetti and Lacalle Herrera, and also Uruguay's future President (either Orsi or Delgado), among other personalities

    Representatives of Uruguay's Government as well as the opposition got together Monday to commemorate the infamous Night of Broken Glass perpetrated by Nazi Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938, which was rekindled by last week's pogrom against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam.

  • Monday, November 11th 2024 - 22:07 UTC

    Sweden picks Embraer C-390 for military logistics

    Sweden becomes the sixth NATO country to choose the South American-built model

    Sweden's Defense Ministry announced it has chosen the Brazilian-built Embraer C-390 Millennium as the country's new tactical transport aircraft. “Embraer is honored by Sweden's choice. After several countries belonging to the European Union and NATO selected the C-390, this decision confirms the fact that our multi-mission aircraft represents a tremendous advance in operational capability over previous generation tactical transport aircraft,” Embraer's CEO of Defense and Security Bosco da Costa Junior said.