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Montevideo, January 10th 2026 - 07:44 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 08:35 UTC

    UK Antarctic Strategy to 2035, next decade Policy Paper

    The Discovery Building at the BAS Rothera Research Station (Pic BAS)

    The strategy document sets out the UK's approach to the Antarctic over the next decade, It can be read at,UK Antarctic Strategy to 2035

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 03:27 UTC

    Peru: Presidential candidate Belaúnde survives armed attack

    Belaúnde said his survival was nothing short of a miracle

    Peruvian Presidential candidate Rafael Belaúnde of the Popular Freedom party survived an armed attack on Tuesday in Cerro Azul, a town 147 kilometers south of Lima, sustaining only minor scratches from broken glass.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 03:18 UTC

    Colombian prosecutors want President's son arrested

    The president's son has previously faced judicial restrictions, including a ban on leaving his city of residence

    Colombian prosecutors formally requested on Tuesday that Nicolás Petro Burgos, the eldest son of President Gustavo Petro, be placed in preventive detention on charges of alleged money laundering and illicit enrichment.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 19:02 UTC

    Venezuela approves migrant repatriation flight from US despite Trump’s airspace closure claim

    Venezuela has regularly accepted repatriation flights in recent months, even as the US military has carried out strikes on small boats in the Caribbean, claiming they were involved in drug trafficking

    The Venezuelan government announced on Tuesday that it had approved a US request to operate a migrant repatriation flight, just days after President Donald Trump declared that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.” The move, reported by The New York Times, highlights that communication between Washington and Caracas remains active despite escalating tensions over Trump’s military campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Maduro stays in Venezuela, rejects Trump's offer to resign

    Maduro, who is running out of options to resign and leave his country, reportedly asked for another call with Trump

    Venezuela's Bolivarian leader Nicolás Maduro was reported on Monday to have stayed in his country despite US President Donald Trump's offer to step down in exchange for immunity. During a private telephone conversation on Nov. 21, Washington rejected Maduro's terms and set a deadline for his departure, which has now expired.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Anniversary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 December 1914

    The wreck was located upright on the seabed, around 100 miles southeast from Stanley

    The Falkland Islands Government has announced that following the centenary commemoration of the great naval battle and defeat of the Imperial German navy, held in 2014, both the Royal Navy and the Royal British Legion globally concluded the practice of marking the 8th December as a separate remembrance event.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 10:42 UTC

    Bioceanic Corridor feared to be seized by traffickers

    The Bioceanic Corridor “is going to be the route of the narcos,” Martínez argued

    Paraguayan Senator Esperanza Martínez of the leftwing Frente Guasú party has raised concerns over a scandal involving the sale of public land at the head of the Bioceanic Corridor bridge in Carmelo Peralta. The lawmaker claimed that “narcos” were seizing the territory

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 10:36 UTC

    Argentine gov't wants stiffer Penal Code

    This reform ”will bring order where barbarism once reigned, Adorni and Bullrich pointed out

    Argentina's Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni and outgoing Security Minister Patricia Bullrich on Monday announced the Libertarian government's initiative to submit a bill to Congress to update the Penal Code, providing for more stringent penalties and fewer concessions to convicted offenders.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 09:48 UTC

    Ho Chi Minh to be honored at Montevideo's port

    Ho Chi Minh's controversial history is the root of controversy in Montevideo

    Uruguay's National Port Administration (ANP) has authorized the installation of a commemorative plaque honoring the late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh in the main hall of Montevideo's fluviomaritime passenger terminal.

  • Tuesday, December 2nd 2025 - 09:46 UTC

    Lev Tahor sect members expelled from Colombia

    Had Lev Tahor settled in Colombia, authorities would have needed a search warrant, Arriero noted

    The Colombian government on Monday expelled nine adult members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor and placed 17 minors associated with the group into the protective custody of US authorities, following an international alert regarding the safety of the children.