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Montevideo, October 26th 2025 - 09:08 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Venezuela issues arrest warrants against Milei, his sister and Minister Bullrich

    Saab called Milei “the most ferocious violator of human rights in the continent”

    Venezuela's Public Prosecutor's Office announced Wednesday the opening of an inquiry against Argentine President Javier Milei for alleged crimes against humanity and the “theft” of a Venezuelan state-owned airplane handed over to the United States. As a result, arrest warrants were issued against Milei, his sister and Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Mercosur should work together to reach FTA with China, says Yamandú Orsi

    “Europe is of little importance in the world today,” said Orsi

    Uruguayan presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi told Argentine businessmen in Buenos Aires on Wednesday that he remains “skeptical” about the possibility of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) concluding a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), but insisted that it must remain united to reach such an understanding with China. He also admitted before the Inter-American Council for Trade and Production (CICyP) that “Mercosur is malfunctioning”.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Argentina: Adorni promoted to ministerial rank

    Adorni holds daily press briefings among other tasks and his duties do not overlap with those of Press Secretary Eduardo Serenellini

    Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni has been promoted to Minister. President Javier Milei also insists that “there is no money” and vows to do his utmost to achieve a zero fiscal deficit while curbing government expenditures.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 08:07 UTC

    Falklands join local Chilean community in celebrating independence Day

    HRH The Princess Royal meeting with members of our Chilean community in 2022

    The Falkland Islands have decades of close links with Chile which not only refer to trade, connectivity, shipping, but are mainly because of the long-established Chilean community in the Islands. Currently almost two hundred strong they are the largest from mainland South America and have greatly contributed to the development of the Islands in different fields of expertise, both in Camp and Stanley. And many families in the Islands have Chilean born members or descendants.

  • Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 16:00 UTC

    Bolivia's Foreign Minister says Evo-led coup in the making

    Evo wants to run again for president despite the Constitution forbidding it, Sosa claimed on Facebook

    Bolivia's Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa Lunda said Tuesday that a coup d'état against President Luis Arce Catacora was being arranged by former head of state Evo Morales and his followers through road blockades and other measures.

  • Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 13:48 UTC

    Lula insists Ukraine should seek a peaceful solution to war with Russia

    “Those who want to talk to us now could have talked to us before the war had started,” Lula stressed

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted this week that his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky should take the South American country's advice and seek a peace negotiation with Moscow. Lula made those remarks after Zelensky dubbed the roadmap submitted jointly by Brasilia and Beijing “destructive.”

  • Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 09:54 UTC

    Brazilian court about to release suspect in reporters Bruno and Dom case

    “Crime scene and crime dinner are different things,” the case rapporteur argued in the murder of Phillips and Pereira

    Brasilia's Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region (TRF1) Tuesday agreed to review an appeal filed by the legal team of one of the three defendants in the much-publicized 2022 murder of native-peoples activist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Indigenous Land of Vale do Javari in the Amazon, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 09:30 UTC

    Blinken reiterates US support to Venezuelan opposition leaders

    The United States “will continue to defend the return of democratic freedoms in Venezuela,” Blinken told González Urrutia and Machado

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday held a telephone conversation with Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado -who stayed in the South American country- and former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who has sought asylum in Spain. The official from President Joseph Biden's administration insisted his country would “continue to defend the return to democratic freedoms” in Venezuela.

  • Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 09:21 UTC

    Peruvian President denied permission to attend United Nations GA

    Most parliamentarians agreed that the head of state should remain in the country to oversee the fight against widespread forest fires

    Peru's one-house Congress on Tuesday voted against allowing President Dina Boluarte to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, with 55 votes to 50 and 5 abstentions. Boluarte intended to be in the United States between Sept. 22 and 25 while remaining in charge of the South American country remotely.

  • Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 08:00 UTC

    Brazil/China peace plan, rejected by Kiev, considered a chance by Russia

    Brazil and China are full members and founders of the BRICS group next to Russia, India and South Africa

    Brazil has positioned itself as neutral in the Ukraine war, refusing to join sanctions or provide military aid to Kiev, while proposing a peace initiative in cooperation with China. The joint Brazil/China peace plan or at least to end hostilities, has been defined by Ukrainian president Zelensky as “destructive”.