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Montevideo, May 19th 2025 - 20:45 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, April 30th 2025 - 10:22 UTC

    Peña tells UN global institutions need reforming

    “We need to ensure fairness, equity, and equality as the most fundamental principles of international trade,” Peña underlined

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña addressed the UN General Assembly, criticizing the world's ineffectiveness in maintaining peace amid conflicts and calling for reform to global institutions to better support developing nations.

  • Wednesday, April 30th 2025 - 07:27 UTC

    Youth Mobility Scheme for Uruguayan and British citizens starting 2025

    The Youth Mobility poster; Uruguay was the first country in South America to join the program

    In 2025, 500 British and 500 Uruguayan nationals aged 18 to 30 years old will be able to experience life and culture in each other’s country for up to 2 years, as established in the agreement that came into effect in both countries on 31 January 2024.

  • Wednesday, April 30th 2025 - 07:19 UTC

    Darwin Plus funding, Falklands raises the issue on every possible call with UK officials

    “There are projects in limbo at the moment while people are waiting to hear what the future of Darwin and Darwin plus are,” pointed out MLA Roberts

    Amid concerns that the Darwin Plus funding for Overseas Territories could be cut, Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Leona Roberts, underlined that key environmental funding is “always on the agenda of the Falklands”.

  • Wednesday, April 30th 2025 - 07:02 UTC

    Canadian Liberals retain office with Trump’s annexation threat ‘help’; Carney congratulated by Sir Starmer

    Mark Carney, the former chair of the Bank of England during a recent visit to 10 Downing Street to meet with Sir Keir Starmer

    Canadian Liberals led by PM Mark Carney, and with the help from Trump’s annexation threats, have retained office on Monday’s election, although a minority government, three short from a majority. Liberals managed 169 seats, Conservatives 144 out of a total 343 in the House of Commons.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 20:31 UTC

    Cardinal Becciu agrees to step down from papal-choosing conclave

    Becciu had said he would be participating in the conclave, but now stepped down “for the good of the Church”

    Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, convicted of embezzlement in a Vatican financial scandal involving a luxury London property, agreed Tuesday to Pope Francis' decision to exclude him from the upcoming conclave starting May 7, 2025, despite initially asserting his right to participate. Becciu, sentenced to five and a half years in prison for fraud and financial irregularities, retains his cardinal title and participates in pre-conclave meetings but will not vote in the election of the next pope.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 11:35 UTC

    US Southcom Chief lands in Argentina for 3-day visit

    It is Holsey's first trip since replacing Gen. Richardson

    U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Chief Admiral Alvin Holsey arrived in Argentina for a three-day visit to strengthen bilateral defense and security cooperation. He will meet President Javier Milei at Casa Rosada, Defense Minister Luis Petri, and other high-ranking officers Tuesday.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:53 UTC

    Canada: Carney's Liberals win elections, but will they form a majority gov't?

    Trump will never own us, Carney said (Pic EFE)

    Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won Canada's federal election securing a fourth consecutive term, though it remains unclear if they achieved a majority government requiring 172 seats or will form a minority government reliant on other parties.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    Bolivian journalists against censorship

    “We ratify our unwavering commitment to the defense of citizens' rights and democracy in Bolivia,” the journalists' guild stressed

    The National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB) and nine departmental journalist associations have rejected Congressional Bill No. 007/2024-2025, titled “Integrity and Public Ethics in Electoral Processes,” currently under review in the Bolivian Senate. Senator Silvia Salame's initiative is criticized for introducing covert censorship and control over media under the guise of ensuring electoral integrity.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:17 UTC

    Two Uruguayans held under slave-like conditions rescued in Brazil

    The man had been working for nine years as a domestic employee and was forced to tattoo his employers' initials as a mark of ownership.

    Two Uruguayans, a homosexual man and a trans woman, were rescued in Planura, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, after years of slave-like conditions. Lured via social media with false job promises, they endured physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, including forced tattoos of their employers' initials. The man worked unregistered for nine years, while the trans woman, held for six months, suffered a stroke.

  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

    Argentina releases Nazi-related documents online

    Mengele entered Argentina in 1949 under the name of Gregor Helmut. In 1956 he submitted his legalized birth certificate

    Argentina's General Archives (AGN) made available some 1,850 documents regarding Nazi activities in the country, including the presence of Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and Adolf Eichmann. These files can now be accessed online at argentina.gob.ar/interior/archivo-general and include intelligence reports, photographs, and police records. Until now, the documents could only be accessed on site at the AGN headquarters.