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Montevideo, July 5th 2025 - 01:49 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 19:21 UTC

    UK Office for Budget Responsibility, new government increases spending by £70bn annually for the next five years

    Chair from the Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes

    A quick analysis by the Chair from the UK Office for Budget Responsibility, Richard Hughes, on the Budget announced to Parliament on Wednesday by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    US gives nod to sale of F-16 equipment to Argentina

    “The proposed sale is structured to optimize the use of both nations' current resources,” a Pentagon spokesman also pointed out

    The US State Department Wednesday gave its nod to the possible sale of high-tech equipment for Argentina's F-16 combat aircraft. The US$ 941 million operation has the Fort Worth (Texas) based company Lockheed Martin as the primary contractor. “This agreement reinforces US foreign policy and security objectives by supporting the security of an important ally in South America,” the State Department said in a statement.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Venezuela pulls ambassador from Brasilia for consultations

    Caracas claims that Lula's advisor Celso Amorim was an agent of US imperialism

    Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Wednesday summoned its Ambassador in Brasilia to Caracas for consultations in repudiation of statements by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's foreign affairs advisor Celso Amorim, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 10:22 UTC

    Business as usual in Argentina as bus strike is lifted

    UTA leader Roberto Fernández took heavy flak for not staging the drivers' strike on Wednesday, together with the other groups

    It will be business as usual for Argentines on Thursday after the bus drivers' Unión Tranviarios Automotor (UTA) lifted the strike following an understanding with the Labor Ministry and the companies represented by the Asociación Argentina de Empresarios del Transporte Automotor.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 22:38 UTC

    Milei sacks Mondino for not siding with US against Cuba

    Milei was hoping to align Buenos Aires with Washington and Tel Aviv but Argentina's diplomatic team at the UN stuck to old policies

    Argentine President Javier Milei sacked Foreign Ministry Diana Mondino Wednesday after Argentina voted in line with most countries at the United Nations (UN) against the US trade embargo on Cuba in force since 1962. The 32nd consecutive non-binding resolution in the same regard was passed with 187 votes in favor, two against (USA and Israel) and one abstention (Moldova). Mondino will be replaced by the current ambassador to the United States, Gerardo Werthein.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 21:38 UTC

    Dozens killed by heavy rains hitting Spain

    The DANA has been affecting autonomous communities such as Valencia, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia, and Madrid since earlier this week

    Local authorities have left behind the rescue efforts and moved on the the body-retrieving and identification phase Wednesday after at least 62 people died in the Spanish Community of Valencia as a consequence of this week's severe flooding caused by the Isolated High-Level Depression (known for its Spanish acronym DANA, depresión aislada en niveles altos). Another person was reported dead in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

    Falklands coast line surveyed by the Argentine navy during “Operation Cow Beach”

    Submarine Santiago del Estero

    Now that the Argentine president Javier Milei has made public a shopping list to equip the armed forces, such as the US manufactured F16 from Denmark for the Air Force, plus tanks, armored vehicles and modern warfare elements such as drones, rockets for the army, and also some surface vessels for the navy, and possibly Scorpane French/Spanish submarines, such as the navies of Brazil and Chile, it is interesting to recall an incident almost sixty years ago when a sea incursion to the Falkland Islands.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Spain appoints new ambassador to Buenos Aires

    Joaquín María de Arístegui Laborde has until now headed Spain's mission in Bogotá, Colombia

    The Spanish Government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will be appointing Joaquín María de Arístegui Laborde as the new Ambassador to Buenos Aires, thus restoring the full strength of its diplomatic mission in the Argentine capital following rifts with President Javier Milei earlier this year.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    YPF to sell Metrogas stake to focus on Vaca Muerta

    Now it is the right time, Marín argued

    Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced Tuesday that it plans to sell its shares in cooking gas distributor Metrogas to invest those funds in Vaca Muerta. YPF CEO Horacio Marín also outlined before the Inter-American Council of Trade and Production (Cicyp) the strategy to increase by fourfold the company's value over the next four years.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    Guterres urges countries to prioritize nature over businesses

    “We must defend the people who defend nature,” Guterres stressed

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries to set aside their business models and prioritize nature, which is neither infinite nor free. He made those remarks in the Colombian city of Cali during his appearance at the Global Biodiversity Conference (COP 16).