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Montevideo, July 19th 2025 - 11:01 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, October 19th 2016 - 07:33 UTC

    Spain anticipates closed frontier if Gibraltar does not accept joint sovereignty

    Garcia Margallo warned that as a result of Britain leaving the EU would become an external frontier again and thus the end to free movement across Gibraltar

    Spain's Acting Foreign Minister says free movement across the Gibraltar frontier will automatically end unless Gibraltarians accept joint sovereignty proposal with Spain. Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo was answering a question by Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation at a press conference after he met with Andalusia politicians in Algeciras, including the mayors of Algeciras and La Linea. From Seville Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said no democratic nation would get away closing a frontier.

  • Tuesday, October 18th 2016 - 10:31 UTC

    Argentina lowers interest rates for businesses as inflation tends to subside

    The decision follows the conviction that gradually “we will have a substantial improvement in the economy, with inflation trending lower,” said Melconian

    Argentina's main state-run bank said it lowered its headline interest rates for loans to businesses on Monday amid expectations that inflation will begin to slow in Latin America's third-largest economy, a move that will help put credit back within firms' reach. Banco Nacion, the country's largest financial institution and which also acts as a development bank, set its annual nominal reference rate for business loans at 27%, down from 32%.

  • Tuesday, October 18th 2016 - 08:44 UTC

    Malcorra regrets no previous warning on the Falklands' military exercises

    “The British decision definitively took us by surprise; there was no previous warning which evidently is not good. It does not contribute to confidence building”

    Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that the recent diplomatic row with the UK over military exercises in the Falkland Islands shows that the consequences of the war persist and reiterated her disappointment with London for not giving the Argentine government any previous warning.

  • Tuesday, October 18th 2016 - 08:31 UTC

    WikiLeaks claims Assange's internet was shut down; possible controversy over Hillary's speeches

    “For the good of the United States and the world ... I would like Hillary to win,” Rafael Correa told broadcaster Russia Today last month.

    Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Monday that its founder Julian Assange's internet was shut down by the government of Ecuador, deflecting blame from the U.S. or British governments which have sparred with Assange for releasing sensitive material.

  • Tuesday, October 18th 2016 - 08:11 UTC

    Argentina congratulates Guterres on appointment as next UN Secretary General

    The Argentine government also wishes the best of successes to Mr. Antonio Guterres as head of UN

    Argentina extended on Monday its congratulations to Portuguese former prime minister and ex UN High commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres for his appointment by the UN General Assembly as the next UN Secretary General for the 2017/2021 period.

  • Tuesday, October 18th 2016 - 07:48 UTC

    Falklands military exercises: Governor Bertone condemns “UK's bad faith”

    “The UK bad faith is evident, only a few days after the release of a joint statement with Argentina” said Bertone

    Argentine Tierra del Fuego governor Rosana Bertone joined the group of protestors condemning the military exercises, including launching of Rapier missiles, announced by British forces stationed in the Falkland Islands, and accused London of acting in “bad faith” just a few days after releasing a joint statement with Argentina to improve relations.

  • Tuesday, October 18th 2016 - 07:32 UTC

    Spain asks Latin American countries support for Gibraltar's sovereignty claim

    “Spain recently presented to the Ibero-American members a statement on Gibraltar”, confirmed the chair of the organization Rebeca Grynspan

    Spain has, for the first time ever, asked the annual Iberian-Latin American Summit for its support on the Gibraltar sovereignty question. It has asked the Colombian Government, as the organizers of the 28/29 October event to circulate the text for the summit to adopt a resolution for the resumption of sovereignty talks over Gibraltar.

  • Monday, October 17th 2016 - 19:25 UTC

    Historic agreement to phase down HFC gases in air conditioners and refrigerators

    Ban Ki-moon said the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol builds on the strong global momentum for multilateral efforts to address climate change

    Negotiators from nearly 200 nations reached a historic deal to phase down emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — potent greenhouse gases used in air conditioners and refrigerators. The agreement, a major expansion of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which eliminated the use of the ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, was finalized during a United Nations meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.

  • Monday, October 17th 2016 - 10:04 UTC

    The Sunday Times reveals unpublished Boris Johnson's pro-Remain column

    In the pro-Remain column Boris Johnson warned that Brexit could lead to an economic shock, Scottish independence and Russian aggression.

    Current Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the UK remaining in the EU would be a “boon for the world and for Europe”, a previously unpublished newspaper column reveals. He wrote the column in February, along with a pro-Brexit article that was later published in The Telegraph. Boris Johnson subsequently became a leading figure in the campaign to leave the European Union.

  • Monday, October 17th 2016 - 09:57 UTC

    “Spoiler” Uribe replies to the NYT editorial: “an offence to the millions of Colombians who voted NO”

    Under the heading of “The man blocking peace in Colombia”, the editorial calls on Uribe to begin behaving as a statesman and adopt a constructive role

    Colombia's Democratic Center party founded by former president Alvaro Uribe criticized on Sunday The New York Times for a recent editorial accusing the ex head of government of “blocking” the peace process in the country and calling on him to act as “a true statesman”. The party said that the NYT editorial constitutes “an offence to the millions of Colombians” who voted against the terms of the peace accord between the government and the main guerrilla group, FARC.