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Montevideo, November 29th 2024 - 00:59 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

    Chile's Constitutional Council instated

    I hope that all of us are aware of what we can achieve when we are capable of putting the common good above our particular interests, Boric said

    Chile's Constitutional Council, a body of 50 people that will pen a new Constitution, was instated Wednesday in Santiago in a new attempt to change the 1980 Magna Carta inherited from Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The first try succumbed in a plebiscite in September of 2022.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 08:45 UTC

    Pope Francis recovering well after hernia surgery

    “The surgery was completed: it was carried out without complications and lasted three hours,” the Vatican said in a statement

    Argentina-born Pope Francis Wednesday underwent abdominal hernia surgery “without complications” at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he will remain for a few days, it was reported. The Pontiff is expected to resume his activities by June 18, the Vatican confirmed.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    Falklands agrees on main topics of constitutional review

    Attorney General Simon Young said general submissions on the Constitution were welcome but that members of the public might also want to hold fire until the committee reaches the various topics

    The Falklands Islands Select Committee on the Constitutional Review has decided the order in which it is going to deal with the topics to be covered. The first issue to be looked at will be the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms chapter of the Constitution at a meeting that will possibly take place as soon as the middle of June.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Falklands: dual nationality voting rights triggers contention

    MLA Teslyn Barkman proposed a change to the order. She said that the issue of voting rights for those with dual nationality needed to be looked at first

    Those who did turn up to the second meeting of the Falkland Islands Select Committee on Constitutional Review on May 25 were greeted by a numbered list of 10 topics projected onto a large screen. The topics were listed in a proposed order for consideration that was produced by what was called “a small group”.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Mexican FM to resign, wants to focus on presidential bid

    Ebrard had already announced in March his intention to be the next president

    Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Tuesday announced that he would be resigning from his job to dedicate himself to the 2024 presidential campaign on behalf of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ebrard, 63, said that he will formally leave his post on June 12.

  • Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

    Plan to fight indebtedness launched in Brazil

    Brazil intends to strengthen ties with the United Nations and with the Netherlands, Haddad explained

    The Desenrola plan, a scheme devised by the Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to help people pay their debts, will be accompanied by a financial education program, said Finance Minister Fernando Haddad Tuesday upon elaborating alongside Queen Maxima of The Netherlands on the project launched the day before, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    All money laundering charges against CFK dismissed

    “Without [an] accusation there is no possible criminal proceeding,” Judge Casanello ruled

    All charges against Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) have been dismissed in the money laundering case known as La Ruta del Dinero K (The K Money Route).

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Falklands' 35 students in UK had allowances revised to face cost of living crisis

    MLA Gavin Short (right) asked whether Falklands students were facing financial difficulties while studying overseas and what steps FIG was taking to mitigate this

    In the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly this week MLA Leona Roberts responded to a question from MLA Gavin Short on the subject of whether Falklands students were facing financial difficulties while studying overseas and what steps FIG was taking to mitigate this if it was true.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    Aruba, Venezuela resume bilateral trade after 4 years

    Clark said that the initiative was part of President Nicolás Maduro's foreign policy of a “diplomacy of peace”

    After a four-year hiatus, trade between Aruba and Venezuela resumed Monday with the arrival of 80 tons of merchandise from the continent to the island, marking the resumption of trade relations between the two countries.

  • Tuesday, June 6th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

    Pence launches Oval Office bid

    Pence is likely to emerge as a strong religious figure among evangelicals

    Former US Vice President Mike Pence Monday launched his candidacy for the White House, thus setting up an unprecedented clash in the Republican primaries with his former running mate Donald Trump.