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Montevideo, July 20th 2025 - 04:32 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 11:10 UTC

    Chilean conservatives clear win in Punta Arenas, first time in almost thirty years

    Claudio Radonich managed a comfortable 47% of votes cast, ahead of the New Majority candidate Ramón Lobos, 20.3% and 17.4% for Emilio Boccazzi

    The Chilean conservative alliance “Chile, let's go” which achieved a sweeping victory in last Sunday's municipal elections, causing a serious disarray to the ruling coalition New Majority with only a year before the 2017 presidential election, also managed to win the Punta Arenas mayoralty for the first time since the end of the Pinochet era.

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 10:57 UTC

    PM Theresa May and Scotland´s First Minister Sturgeon clash over Brexit

    “We had a very frank exchange of views. I don’t mind admitting large parts of the meeting were deeply frustrating,” Ms Sturgeon said

    British PM Theresa May and Scotland’s First Minister clashed at a Downing St Brexit summit dominated by a “very frank exchange of views”, Nicola Sturgeon revealed. Ms Sturgeon branded a warning from Number 10 that the devolved administrations must not try to undermine the UK’s negotiating position as “nonsense” as she labelled the talks between the PM and the leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as “deeply frustrating”.

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentine private aircraft makes a direct Rio Gallegos flight to the Falklands for a four-day visit

    The Beechcraft 55 made a direct flight from Rio Gallegos to Stanley airport with Pic LN)

    Four Argentines who flew straight across from Rio Gallegos to Stanley airport in a private Beechcraft 55 and spent four days in the Falkland Islands, had only words of praise for the way they were considered and treated during the two months previous paperwork and when they finally reached their goal of visiting battle fields, cemeteries to honor the 1982 combatants who never returned.

  • Wednesday, October 26th 2016 - 05:48 UTC

    Brazilian Lower House votes amendment to cap spending for twenty years

    Temer has vowed restore credibility to Brazil's finances and pull out of its worst recession since the 1930s Great Depression.

    Brazilian President Michel Temer won another victory on Tuesday in his efforts to restore fiscal discipline when the lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment to cap spending for 20 years. Heavy public spending, a recession and a massive corruption scandal rocking Brazil's political establishment undermined confidence in Latin America's largest economy.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 12:20 UTC

    Temer urges Congress to approve bill easing oil industry regulation and Petrobras monopoly

    The proposed regulatory framework would “create new jobs” and “provide a new boost to investment in the sector,” Temer said at the Rio Oil and Gas conference.

    President Michel Temer urged Congress on Monday to approve a bill that would ease oil industry regulation and strip state-controlled oil giant Petrobras of some of its privileges in Brazil's most promising oil fields. The proposed regulatory framework would “create new jobs” and “provide a new boost to investment in the sector,” Temer said in an address at the opening of the Rio Oil and Gas conference.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 12:13 UTC

    “Gibraltar forms part of the UK”, British ambassador Manley tells Spanish media

    Ambassador Manley's comments about Gibraltar are in direct contrast to the view expressed by Spain that insists Gibraltar cannot form part of the UK’s exit deal.

    Gibraltar will be included in whatever deal the United Kingdom negotiates to leave the European Union, Britain’s ambassador to Spain has said. Simon Manley made the comment during a wide-ranging interview with the right-wing Spanish newspaper ABC, during which he also made clear “there is no turning back” from Brexit.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 12:10 UTC

    FCO Minister, Baroness Anelay, marks UN Day on its 70th anniversary

    FCO Minister Baroness Anelay said the ambitions upon which the UN was founded remain as relevant today as they were 70 years ago.

    As Minister responsible for the United Nations, I see UN Day as a day of reflection about why the UN matters. The UN celebrated its 70th anniversary earlier this year, and the ambitions upon which the UN was founded remain as relevant and important today as they were at its inception.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 11:52 UTC

    Successful technical stop by an Avro RJ100 at St Helena airport

    Arriving close to its schedule at 15.51hrs GMT, the aircraft performed a smooth landing from the south on Runway 02 (Pic by Whatsaintdidnext.com)

    An Avro RJ100 jet aircraft, operated by Tronos Jet Maintenance and carrying two Atlantic Star Airlines personnel, successfully conducted a technical stop at St Helena Airport on Friday 21 October 2016, as part of a delivery flight to a customer in Chile.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 10:37 UTC

    The “retributive” football spirit between Argentina and Uruguay

    “We are going to work jointly on our aspiration of organizing the 2030 Cup”, confirmed Macri.

    As could be expected soccer was not absent from the Argentina-Uruguay presidential summit in Buenos Aires on Monday. Mauricio Macri has been president of Boca Juniors, one of the two strongest and most popular Argentine sides and steered the club to reach several regional and continental cups.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2016 - 10:29 UTC

    Macri and Vazquez agree that the trade approach to China should be done from Mercosur

    Macri said that his government understands Uruguay´s need to have access to other markets and open to the world's second largest economy.

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri promised his Uruguayan peer Tabare Vazquez to look into the draft of a Uruguay/China free trade deal, and expressed their deep concern about political events in Venezuela suggesting that under the current circumstances the Nicolas Maduro government cannot be considered a member of Mercosur.