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Montevideo, July 3rd 2025 - 11:03 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 20:13 UTC

    Environmental commitments key to people's well-being, Lula tells ILO

    “The invisible hand of the market only exacerbates inequalities,” Lula stressed

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted during his appearance at the 112th Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, that the well-being of the people depends on governments supporting environmental commitments, Agencia Brasil reported. Speaking at the Global Coalition for Social Justice forum, the Workers' Party (PT) leader also pointed out that the link between capital and labor is crucial to minimize social inequalities, especially in light of today's challenges.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    MLAs Barkman and Short ready to defend Falklands' self determination at UN C24 meeting

    Members of the delegation with a Falklands flag in front of the US Congress in Washington

    A team from the Falklands Islands is currently in the United States, more precisely in Washington for a series of political contacts in Congress and the State Department.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Milei leaves for G7 Summit with a plethora of good news

    Se espera que Milei exponga ante el G7 sobre el posible rol de Argentina como polo de desarrollo líder en inteligencia artificial

    After a day of good news following the Senate's broad approval of the Bases Law bill in addition to an arrangement with China to extend the currency swap in force, Argentine President Javier Milei and his entourage left for Borgo Egnazia, Italy, to attend the G7 Summit, during which he plans to hold talks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, among other world leaders.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    Pot and pan-banging protests staged after positive outcome at the Senate

    While some protesters took to the streets, Milei's government praised “the patriotic” Senators who voted in favor of the bill

    Residents and natives of the Argentine capital - known collectively as “porteños”- took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Wednesday evening banging pots and pans to protest against the Senatorial broad approval of the Libertarian Administration's Bases Law bill in addition to the police repression outside Congress against demonstrators earlier on.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    Libertarians get Bases Law bill passed at Senate

    VP Villarruel cast the vote breaking the tie

    Vice President Victoria Villarruel tipped the scale in favor of Argentina's Libertarian administration when she cast her affirmative vote breaking the 36-36 tie at the Senate for the broad passing of the Bases Law bill the government claims to need to rescue the country from its economic plight. Itemized voting went on during the wee hours of Thursday.

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    French snap election: Macron's strategy to erode a Marine Le Pen hard right government

    In the EU elections last Sunday, Le Pen’s National Rally got 32% of the French votes, more than twice as many as Macron’s Renaissance.

    Even before the final results were in from all of the 27 European Union countries that voted in the EU elections last weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron had called for national elections in France for the end of this month.

  • Wednesday, June 12th 2024 - 23:58 UTC

    Scuffles in front of Argentine Congress reported

    Five Congressmen were hospitalized after being pepper-sprayed by the police

    Argentine law enforcement officers Wednesday fired teargas to disperse demonstrators convening in front of Congress to encourage Senators to vote against President Javier Milei's so-called Omnibus Law bill (officially known as Bases Law) with which the Libertarian administration intends to bring the country out of its economic plight. The bill has already been passed by the Lower House.

  • Wednesday, June 12th 2024 - 20:29 UTC

    Milei pledges to leave Casa Rosada dead before surrendering Argentina's zero deficit

    A survey found that six months into Milei's administration, the government's support was intact among Libertarian voters

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Wednesday morning that “they will have to take me out of the [Casa] Rosada dead” if they are “to break the fiscal deficit.” The Libertarian leader made those remarks during his speech at an event in Buenos Aires ahead of his trip to Italy to attend the G7 Summit. ”We are going to make a bigger reform than the one made by Carlos Menem because ours is three times more (so),” he added.

  • Wednesday, June 12th 2024 - 19:17 UTC

    Cargo terminal at Porto Alegre's airport operational again

    Opened in 2021, Porto Alegre's International Cargo Terminal (Teca) was launched in 2021 and functions 24/7

    While passenger flights are still observing an emergency scheme, the cargo terminal at Porto Alegre's Salgado Filho International Airport (POA/SBPA) has been operational once again since Tuesday after the entire air station was shut down due to the floods hitting the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Agencia Brasil reported. According to Fraport Brasil, the company handling these operations, airport structures such as the runway and baggage conveyors, were not affected. On the other hand, passenger flights were suspended indefinitely on May 3.

  • Wednesday, June 12th 2024 - 17:16 UTC

    Paraguayan President due in Bolivia this week

    Peña will be meeting with Arce as both countries have opposing geopolitical stances

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is due in La Paz on Thursday for talks with his local counterpart Luis Arce Catacora, Bolivia's Deputy Communications Minister Gabriela Alcón confirmed Tuesday. “The agenda is being closed, evidently the president of Paraguay is arriving in our country, he is doing it on Thursday,” she told reporters.