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Montevideo, November 10th 2025 - 14:19 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, February 23rd 2017 - 08:02 UTC

    Argentina commemorates 113 years in Antarctica

    “Antarctica policy is one of the few State policies that continues despite time and different governments, and gives it sustainability”, said minister Julio Martínez

    Argentine Antarctica Day was commemorated on Wednesday February 22 with different events recalling the day, 113 years ago when the country's flag was first flown in a met station in Laurie Island, in the south Orkneys. Since then, 1904, Argentina's presence south of 60o. has been uninterrupted, said Argentine defense minister Julio Martínez at the main celebration in the Foreign Affairs ministry.

  • Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 18:36 UTC

    Trump toughens immigration policy: millions could be targeted for deportation

    Homeland Security Department memos signed by Sec. John Kelly include people arrested for shoplifting or minor offenses, or having crossed the border illegally.

    Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation — including people simply arrested for traffic violations — under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration.

  • Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 14:11 UTC

    In highly unusual move, PM May attends House of Lords Brexit debate

    Mrs May took up her position, which she is permitted to occupy as a member of the Privy Council, as peers began debating the EU Notification of Withdrawal Bill.

    Theresa May has taken the highly unusual step of sitting in the House of Lords to hear peers being told by the UK Government not to “frustrate” Brexit. The Prime Minister sat on the steps in front of the Royal Throne as Lords leader Baroness Evans of Bowes Park told peers to respect the decision of the British people in last year’s referendum and the “primacy” of the elected House of Commons.

  • Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 07:53 UTC

    Falklands' thriving community underlined by visiting Ilford North MP

    MP Wes Streeting lays a wreath at the Liberation Monument in Stanley

    British lawmaker Ilford North MP Wes Streeting visited the Falkland Islands as part of a cross-party Parliamentary visit this week. With the 35th anniversary of the Falklands War coming in April, the visit was aimed at giving British politicians a better look at the problems facing the islanders today.

  • Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 07:35 UTC

    Rosario and Liverpool twinned in promoting human rights and inclusion

    Rosario mayor Monica Fein and Joe Anderson from Liverpool will sign the agreement which was worked out through cultural organizations

    The Argentine city of Rosario and Liverpool in England will sign on Wednesday a cooperation agreement to jointly work in human rights and inclusion issues, the first such accord between mayors of the two countries since the end of the 1982 conflict.

  • Tuesday, February 21st 2017 - 12:10 UTC

    Chilen Navy operating from Punta Arenas rescues Australian yacht skipper

    Solo skipper Shane Freeman abandoned the Mushka yacht which has been scuttled to prevent a hazard to navigation, after being rescued by a Chilean Navy sea

    The Chilean Navy rescued 61-year-old Australian skipper Shane Freeman after his yacht Mushka was knocked down and dismasted 300 nautical miles west of Chile. The Australian was on his way to the Sunday Times Golden Globe race’s start line in the UK in his Tradewind 35 class yacht when the incident happened on 18 February 2017.

  • Tuesday, February 21st 2017 - 10:52 UTC

    Argentina in April will lower 35% tariff on computers and laptops imports

    Computers are three times more expensive in Argentina than in the US, and 50% more expensive than in neighboring Chile, the ministry said in a statement.

    Argentina will get rid of a 35% tariff on imports of computers, laptops and tablets, the Production Ministry said on Monday, part of a larger effort to lower consumer prices and roll back protectionist policies.

  • Tuesday, February 21st 2017 - 09:13 UTC

    Delay in releasing electoral results triggers turmoil in Ecuador

    Late Monday hundreds of Lasso supporters hunkered down in heavy rain outside the National Electoral Council for a second night to demand a runoff be confirmed

    Tension mounted as vote counting in Ecuador's presidential election dragged into a third day on Tuesday, with supporters and opponents of outgoing President Rafael Correa trading heated accusations. With the last ballots trickling in from Sunday's election, ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno had a little over 39% of the votes and an almost 11-point lead over conservative Guillermo Lasso, a former banker who finished second.

  • Monday, February 20th 2017 - 20:30 UTC

    Brexit Lords' debate: Labour has tabled eight amendments

    The list of likely speakers includes former chancellors Lord Lawson (Pic), Lord Lamont and Lord Darling, former foreign secretaries Lord Hague and Lord Owen

    The House of Lords are to begin debating the bill paving the way for the start of Brexit. MPs agreed the proposed law unchanged, authorizing Theresa May to inform the EU of the UK's intention to leave. But the government does not have a majority in the House of Lords and eight amendments have been tabled by Labor's front bench.

  • Monday, February 20th 2017 - 15:26 UTC

    La Nacion analyst apologizes for interview inaccuracies

    UK ambassador in Argentina, Mark Kent

    Political and diplomatic analyst from Argentine newspaper La Nacion has altered an online version of an interview due to his inaccurate reporting of an interview with the British Ambassador in Argentina.