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Montevideo, July 20th 2025 - 11:40 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 12:25 UTC

    Moscow claims Argentine politician played 'the Russian card' as presidential elections loom over

    Maria Zakharova: “those accusations usually cite official sources in Washington.”

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Wednesday denounced attempts by several Argentine parliament members to link Moscow to alleged interfering into their country's presidential elections. It was “a last-year trend,” she said, according to the news agency Tass.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 12:14 UTC

    Montevideo gas workers lift strike after government's announcements

    The unification of Montevideo's two gas suppliers is planned to improve management, explained Moncecchi.

    As the Uruguayan state has vowed to take over the administration of departing Montevideo cooking gas suppliers Montevideo Gas and Conecta and jobs have been secured, the UOEGAS workers' union has agreed to end the strike, starting this Friday.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 12:04 UTC

    Bolsonaros behind transnational alliance of conservative leaders, Brazil's FM says

    Araújo and Eduardo Bolsonaro also expressed their concerns about the Forum of Sao Paulo

    In an interview before traveling to the Argentine city of Santa Fe for the Mercosur Summit and published Wednesday by the BBC, Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo admitted he discussed a possible Conservative-Liberal Alliance with lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president's son and likely to become the next ambassador to the United States.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 11:01 UTC

    Macri praises Mercosur-EU deal for positive impact on quality of life to come

    Macri said he was convinced Mercosur was a strategic space.

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri said Wednesday in Santa Fe that Mercosur's trade agreement with the European Union (EU) “will have a positive impact on the quality of life of the people” and called for “the convergence” with the Pacific Alliance.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    What did the Mercosur’s leaders say about Venezuela in Santa Fe?

    Venezuela is currently banned from Mercosur

    The political and economic crisis in Venezuela was the center of the political debate among the heads of state that, this Wednesday, met in Santa Fe, Argentina in the Mercosur semi-annual summit, a block from which the Caribbean country is currently suspended. Neither Uruguay, Bolivia nor Chile addressed a word regarding the Venezuelan situation.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

    Uruguayan President Vázquez underlines the importance of the EU deal for Mercosur

    “Improving the international insertion is an indispensable requirement,” said Vázquez.

    Uruguay's President Tabaré Vázquez Wednesday highlighted in the Argentine city of Santa Fe the partnership agreement reached in the first semester of the year with the European Union (EU) as a very important achievement for Mercosur after 20 years of negotiations, 39 formal meetings and many other informal ones, for which he thanked the technical teams involved.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

    A unique monument pays tribute to the victims of the AMIA bombing

    On April 19th, 1997, on the 54th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, a memorial mural was inaugurated at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires

    By Eduardo Eurnekia - On July 18, 1994, the center of Buenos Aires, the bustling capital of Argentina, was shattered by a huge explosion. A suicide bomber drove his explosives-loaded van into the building of the Jewish Community (AMIA-Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina), killing 85 people and injuring hundreds.

  • Wednesday, July 17th 2019 - 23:59 UTC

    Macri paves way for Hezbollah to be deemed 'a terrorist organisation' in Argentina

    Macri's measures are considered to be a response to separate requests from the United States and Israel among other countries as well as from the local Jewish leadership.

    The Argentine Government has created the Public Registry of Persons or Entities Linked to Acts of Terrorism and its Financing (RePET), a tool whereby Hezbollah can be included. So far, local authorities adhered to the list penned by the United Nations, where Hezbollah is not included. President Mauricio Macri also decreed a day of national mourning to mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Israeli Social Welfare Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires. In a third measure, Macri gave the victims of that attack 180 days to file for monetary compensation from the state.

  • Wednesday, July 17th 2019 - 22:19 UTC

    Argentina's inflation expected to stay on the downpath in July

    Sandleris founded his inflationary decline forecast on “the goal of zero monetary base expansion.”

    Argentine Central Bank President Guido Sandleris Tuesday admitted inflation remains “high,” but he forecast July's figures will be smaller than those of June in light of the current “clear trend” to the downside.

  • Wednesday, July 17th 2019 - 10:47 UTC

    Tabaré denies brokering meeting with Bolsonaro

    “The issues we have are common to all of Mercosur,” said the Uruguayan president.

    Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez Tuesday denied having sought to meet privately with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro during Wednesday's Mercosur summit in Santa Fe, Argentina.