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Montevideo, November 9th 2026 - 06:29 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 09:02 UTC

    Chile's defence minister backs trade between Punta Arenas and the Falklands

    Asked how closer trade ties would fit with regional commitments, Barros said the “potentially most contentious” point is oil and mining exploration

    Chile's Defence Minister Fernando Barros Tocornal has backed the development of commercial activity between the Magallanes region and the Falklands, saying his country's support for Argentina's sovereignty claim does not imply restrictions on trade with the archipelago. He made the remarks in an interview with Radio Polar in Punta Arenas during a visit to the region on September 24 and 25.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:30 UTC

    Milei orders arbitration proceedings against the UK over the Sea Lion project

    Argentina demanded that the United Kingdom take the necessary measures within that period to prevent the start or continuation of hydrocarbon exploitation and refrain from granting new permits

    Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday instructed the foreign ministry and the government's legal teams to launch international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom over the development of the Sea Lion oil project in the basin north of the Falklands, and gave London two weeks to halt the activity before Argentina turns to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:21 UTC

    Lula widens his first-round lead to five points, but the runoff remains tied

    The survey, commissioned by the newspaper O Globo and TV Globo, was carried out from Thursday to Sunday with 2,400 interviews nationwide and a margin of error of two percentage points

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has widened his lead over Senator Flávio Bolsonaro to five points in voting intentions for Sunday's first round, according to a Quaest poll released on Monday, though the two remain tied in a prospective October 25 runoff.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:17 UTC

    Five shipping lines warn Uruguay the port dispute is damaging its international standing

    The companies describe a situation of “extreme uncertainty and paralysis” at the specialised container terminal and say that so far in 2026 there have been “more than 35 days of” disruption

    Five of the main shipping lines operating at the port of Montevideo have warned the Uruguayan government that the labour dispute at the Terminal Cuenca del Plata is causing “severe economic and commercial harm” and has “severely damaged Uruguay's international prestige”, in a letter addressed to six ministers.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:09 UTC

    Milei denies a recession and says indicators are “throwing out anything”

    Milei linked the economic difficulties to opposition initiatives in Congress and to security concerns

    Argentine President Javier Milei denied the country is in recession and questioned the reading of statistics showing rising poverty and falling economic activity. “The indicators are throwing out anything,” he said on Sunday in an interview with journalist Luis Majul on the programme La Cornisa, on the LN+ channel.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 09:33 UTC

    London says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands

    Streeting also said “this issue was settled in 1982” and that the will of the archipelago's residents, “the overwhelming majority of whom choose to be British”, remains unchanged

    British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday. Asked whether London could protect the archipelago militarily if Buenos Aires sent warships, he answered yes.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

    Chile reinforcing its military presence in Magallanes Region and Antarctica

    Minister Barros said defense requires planning and Chile must have the necessary capacities to protect its sovereignty, territorial integrity and the security of its people.

    Chile announced the reinforcement of its military capacities in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of the country with a plan that includes renewal of aircraft, modernization of armored vehicles, increased vigilance and presence in the austral territory and Antarctica, updating of military strategy based on experiences from the current war scenarios in Europe and Middle East.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:00 UTC

    Falklands at Labour Conference in Liverpool

    PM Burnham is scheduled to address the conference tomorrow 29 Tuesday

    British political parties are holding their annual round of conferences and Labour, in government, has chosen the city of Liverpool for a gathering that started on Sunday, 27 September and will last for three days until 30th September.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

    The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

    The column describes Milei as having moved from economic libertarianism to nationalism and, having once celebrated Margaret Thatcher, now seeking to attract Donald Trump with oil concessions

    An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC

    Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

    Donald Trump muses about transferring part of our territory to Ireland. The EU threatens us with illegal car and steel tariffs

    By Daniel Hannan (*)

    As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.