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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 16:54 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, November 25th 2024 - 08:52 UTC

    New sex violence case filed against Ecuador's President

    “My struggle is for an Ecuador where women's rights are respected,” Coello stressed

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa faces yet another sex violence complaint after the case was filed by the alleged victim, Democracia Sí Vice Presidential contender María Luisa Coello, before the Electoral Contentious Tribunal (TCE).

  • Monday, November 25th 2024 - 08:40 UTC

    Paraguayan FM seeks top OAS position

    Trump apparently prefers Ramírez over the Surinamese contender

    Paraguay's Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano has become a strong contender to replace the Uruguayan Diego Almagro as Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) following talks with US President-elect Donald Trump and his future aide Elon Musk, it was reported through X.

  • Monday, November 25th 2024 - 06:10 UTC

    “The Magellan Strait belongs to Chile“, underlines US Ambassador

    Guard of Honor receives Ambassador Meehan at Punta Arenas Third Naval Zone

    “The United States has been very clear that the Magellan Strait belongs to Chile, and I can assure you there is no intention of holding naval exercises with Argentina along the Magellan Strait,” US ambassador in Chile Bernadette Meehan said point blank during a visit to Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, following on rumors published in the neighboring country media.

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition leader Machado under criminal investigation

    Machado is believed to have committed treason for supporting a US legal initiative imposing further sanctions on the Chavista regime

    Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office Friday launched a probe into disenfranchised opposition leader María Corina Machado's support to a bill passed by the US House of Representatives contrary to the South American country's interests, it was announced in Caracas. In a statement, the initiative in Washington was described as a legal absurdity sponsoring criminal acts against the Venezuelan people by enlarging “the catalog of illegal sanctions.” The measure also seeks to stain the name of our Liberator Simón Bolívar and violate Venezuela's Constitution as well as its laws and sovereignty.

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:29 UTC

    Bolsonaro denies any knowledge of plans to kill Lula and Alckmin

    “Discussing with me a plan to kill someone, that never happened,” Bolsonaro underlined

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro insisted Friday that “discussing a plan to kill someone never happened,” despite what has been widely published in local media. Several military officers from his days in the Planalto Palace have been arrested for allegedly planning to take down Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin after winning the runoff, in addition to Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes. In an interview via videoconference with Veja, Bolsonaro also downplayed his relationship with those apprehended.

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Monsalve case saga: Former official threatened in prison by criminal gang

    Monsalve was to be housed in a special module isolated from the rest of the inmates in Rancagua but that was not enough

    The case of former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve keeps making headlines in Chile even after the former official has been placed under pre-trial detention to face rape charges against a female worker under him. A judge ordered him transferred Friday from the Rancagua Jailhouse to the Capitán Yáber detention facility in Santiago's Metropolitan Region out of security concerns.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 19:47 UTC

    At least 12 arrested in Ecuador anti-gov't demonstration

    Villavicencio said the mobilization was in rejection of the economic crisis, the insecurity hitting the country, and the energy crisis that has affected employment

    Ecuador's law enforcement forces arrested at least 12 people during Thursday's anti-government protests in Quito, which also left three policemen injured out of 2,000 deployed to disperse the demonstrators who opposed the administration of President Daniel Noboa amid an unprecedented energy crisis that made electricity a scarce commodity as daily blackouts last up to 14 hours. The mobilization had been called by the United Workers' Front (FUT) and by several student federations to protest against Noboa's policies.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 19:27 UTC

    Eight former Argentine Army officers convicted for death of 2nd Lt in ritualistic party

    Chirino endured abusive treatment during his “baptism”

    Former Argentine Army officers Rubén Darío Ruiz, Claudio Andrés Luna, Hugo Reclus Martínez Tárraga, Exequiel Emanuel Aguilar, Darío Emanuel Martínez, Luis Facundo Acosta were sentenced Thursday to 8 years in jail for the crime of abandonment of person in concurrence with abuse of authority in the death of Second Lieutenant Matías Ezequiel Chirino in a ritualistic initiation known as “baptism” at the Artillery Group 3 in Paso de los Libres in the province of Corrientes on June 19, 2022. Meanwhile, former privates Gerardo Sebastián Bautista, Franco Damián Grupico, and Claudia Daniela Cayata were acquitted.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Milei regrets ICC's measure against Netanyahu

    Israel has an ally in Argentina, insisted Milei

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday expressed his “profound disagreement” with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In the Libertarian leader's view, the ruling “distorts the spirit of international justice.”

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    PM Starmer and Brazil’s Lula da Silva announce Joint Statement to accelerate global green power transition

    UK Prime Minister Starmer is received by President Lula da Silva on arrival at the G20 summit held in Rio do Janeiro

    The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met in the margins of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the UK-Brazil relationship and to announce new areas of cooperation in a Joint Statement