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Montevideo, December 24th 2025 - 05:10 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 06:07 UTC

    Caricom considering ECLAC proposal to write-off its multilateral debt

    The debt relief strategy was put forward by Alicia Barcena from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    The Caribbean Community, Caricom is considering a proposal for the region to pursue gradual write-off of its multilateral debt as a means of economic prosperity. The debt relief strategy was put forward by Alicia Barcena from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the 36th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held in Barbados.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 06:00 UTC

    Brazil's economic team reaching out to credit rating agencies for a vote of confidence

    A downgrade from investment to speculative “junk” status would be a significant blow to Rousseff’s plan to revive investment and growth in Brazil

    Concerns that Brazil may lose its coveted investment grade credit rating are again on the rise among government officials and investors who worry that President Dilma Rousseff’s austerity push won’t fully offset plunging government revenues.

  • Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 05:29 UTC

    Barrage of accusations following a Judge's order to raid Maximo Kirchner's real estate agency

    Judge Claudio Bonadio formally requested information from Idea SA and Valle Mitre, companies which administrate hotels owned by Cristina Fernandez.

    The raid ordered by an Argentine Federal Judge at a real estate agency which belongs to president Cristina Fernandez' son, Maximo Kirchner's in Rio Gallegos, triggered a barrage of accusations from government officials, just a few days ahead of decisive primaries in August, in anticipation of the October presidential elections.

  • Monday, July 13th 2015 - 09:30 UTC

    Petrobras faces major class action lawsuit in US next February

    The investors of the company argue that Petrobras had window dressed the company’s accounts in order to make them appear more attractive

    Brazil's state-run oil producer Petrobras, said in a securities filing on Friday that its motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit in the United States had been denied by the court. Petrobras said part of the complaint against the company relating to bonds issued in the United States in 2012 was denied.

  • Monday, July 13th 2015 - 09:21 UTC

    Venezuela will stop buying Guyana rice amid escalating border dispute

    Finance minister Jordan said Venezuelan officials informed him that they will be acquiring rice from other suppliers, including Suriname, by the end of the year.

    Venezuela has decided to stop buying much of Guyana's rice crop amid an escalating border dispute between the two neighboring countries, the Guyanese finance minister said. The administration of president Nicolas Maduro has in the past four years purchased about 40% of Guyana's rice production, about 200,000 tons, paying for it with oil that amounts to about half of Guyana's daily supply needs.

  • Monday, July 13th 2015 - 09:03 UTC

    The Peronist pope: Francis’s balancing act in Latin America, according to The Economist

    The pope’s criticisms of free-market capitalism chime both with traditional Catholic social doctrine and with Peronism

    Under the heading of “The Peronist pope”, The Economist has a piece on “Francis's balancing act in Latin America” dedicated to the eight day tour of three of the continent's poorest countries, but with the largest percentages of Catholics. But for Francis it is also a delicate balancing act since several current leaders in the region tend to blend the Church's 'option for the poor' with Marxist ideology.

  • Monday, July 13th 2015 - 08:58 UTC

    “A faith without solidarity, is a dead faith”, Francis tells a mass of over a million people

    The altar's backdrop was made of corn cobs, coconuts, squashes, beans, seeds and other local produce to create huge murals of St. Francis of Assisi

    Pope Francis, wrapping up on Sunday his three-country tour of South America, urged people living in a flood-prone shantytown in Paraguay to stay united in their struggle for better living and working conditions.

  • Monday, July 13th 2015 - 06:36 UTC

    Argentina' Cristina Fernandez flies to Paraguay meets Francis for the sixth time

    The Argentine president had been invited by Paraguay's Cartés to attend the mass, and was the only regional head of state to visit Paraguay.

    President Cristina Fernández was present on Sunday in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción to hear Pope Francis give mass during his visit, and greeted the Argentine citizens who had travelled to see the leader of the Catholic church. The head of state left the open mass at around midday, handing Francis a gift before retiring after witnessing the ceremony with Paraguayan counterpart Horacio Cartés.

  • Sunday, July 12th 2015 - 13:12 UTC

    Falklands Group Reveals Details of the Life of “Veteran of the Malvinas” Alejandro Betts

    “Betts was never in any danger from the Islanders or the British in 1982, because, among other things, no one knew that he had changed sides.”

    Alexander Jacob Betts was never exposed to any danger whatsoever from other Falkland Islanders or Britain’s Armed Forces during the 1982 conflict. This has been stated by the Falklands History Group in reference to Betts, who was born in Stanley, and lived in the Islands until the end of the 1982 conflict, but who is now an Argentine citizen.

  • Saturday, July 11th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

    Falklands/Malvinas UN resolution 2065 remembered in Ushuaia

    Filmus proclaimed that “if we remain united, each of Latin America's causes will have a happy ending”

    A group of lawmakers from six Latin American countries and Argentine officials met in Ushuaia in support of Argentine 'legitimate sovereignty rights over Malvinas, Georgia and South Sandwich Islands', in the framework of UN General Assembly Resolution 2065 fiftieth anniversary celebration, which called on the United Kingdom and Argentina to reach a peaceful negotiated solution over the Falklands/Malvinas dispute through bilateral discussions.