Politics

Monday, April 28th 2014 - 08:01 UTC
Montevideo expected to host Mercosur two in one summits next August

Montevideo will be hosting the much delayed Mercosur (December) summit sometime next August as part of the 'normalization ' process, according to sources from the Uruguayan foreign ministry following revelations that negotiations with that purpose have been ongoing for several months now.
Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:54 UTC
Pope Francis, Bachelet, Maduro and Mujica, in Time's 100 most influential people

Pope Francis, presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and José Mujica of Uruguay, and Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón are the Latin Americans named by TIME magazine to its list of the “100 most influential people in the world.”
Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:49 UTC
Ex Royal Navy and intelligence expert appointed Captain of Port of Gibraltar

A Gibraltarian who served as an officer in the Royal Navy has been appointed as the new chief executive and Captain of the Port of Gibraltar. Bob Sanguinetti, who rose to the rank of Commodore in the British navy, will replace Captain Roy Stanbrook, who resigned from the post earlier this year.
Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:39 UTC
Putin is losing Eastern European energy gamble

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that's too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free.
Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:32 UTC
Brazilian police ‘still have blood on their hands’ 20 years on from massacre

Every year police in Brazil are responsible for around 2,000 deaths, Amnesty International said as it marked the 20th anniversary of the infamous Candelária massacre in Rio de Janeiro. On the night of 23 July 1993, eight young men and women died after a gang of hooded men opened fire on a group of some 50 street children sleeping on the steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Candelária church.
Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:29 UTC
Malvinas Islands are Argentine, period, insists Uruguayan government

Uruguay's Deputy Defense minister Jorge Menéndez reaffirmed that the Malvinas Islands are 'Argentine' and insisted that the government's support in defense of Argentine sovereignty over the Islands “is not of an expository character”.
Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 06:08 UTC
Argentine Malvinas Solidarity Day, proposed by the Central American parliament

The Central America Parliament (Paralacén) International Relations and Migratory Affairs committee unanimously approved on Thursday an initiative to promote in the region the 10th of June as the “Day of Central American solidarity with Argentine Malvinas Islands”.
Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 06:05 UTC
Protestors interrupt Rousseff's speech and pledge to torpedo the World Cup

President Dilma Rousseff was repeatedly interrupted while giving a speech by hecklers protesting the coming World Cup hosted by Brazil and who are demanding more funds should be invested in health care, education and improved transportation.
Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 06:00 UTC
Malvinas 'sooner than later' will return to Argentina, forecasts Maduro

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro forecasted that “sooner than later, the Malvinas Islands will return to the hands of the Argentine people” and recalled that during the recent Celac summit in Cuba (Community of Latin-American and Caribbean States) Latin-American was declared “a territory of peace and free of colonialism”.
Saturday, April 26th 2014 - 05:57 UTC
Argentina's industrial production and trade surplus falls point to recession

Argentina's industrial production contracted 6% in March from the same month last year, the government said on Friday, marking the sixth consecutive monthly loss in factory output due in part to weakness in the auto-making sector. In another report released on Friday Argentina's trade surplus contracted dramatically, indicating the country could be effectively heading for a recession.