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Montevideo, November 7th 2025 - 21:45 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:15 UTC

    Students take to the streets of Santiago to demand education reform

    Since 2011, over forty street rallies attracted ten of thousands in support of education reform (Photo EFE)

    Chile’s student movement on Thursday offered another demonstration of its clout, bringing tens of thousands onto the streets of the capital Santiago to demand the overhaul of an educational model that dates from the Pinochet dictatorship.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:06 UTC

    Brazil calls emergency meeting to address massive influx of illegal immigrants

    Most of the illegal come in through the northern border and are from Haiti

    The Brazilian government called this week an emergency meeting to discuss measures to curb the influx of hundreds of illegal immigrants along its northern border.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 05:59 UTC

    Brazil and the US upgrading diplomatic ties and thinking in more bilateral trade

    A state visit for President Rousseff, a treat for Washington’s closest strategic allies

    President Dilma Rousseff will make the first formal state visit by a Brazilian leader to the United States in nearly two decades, according to Reuters’ news agency. The trip allegedly will occur later this year likely in October, officials said on condition of anonymity because the White House has not yet announced the visit.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

    G8 Foreign ministers condemn North Korea but could not agree on Syria

    The G8 ministers ‘family’ picture

    G8 foreign ministers strongly condemned North Korea over its nuclear program on Thursday but failed to bridge divisions over Syria beyond calling for more humanitarian aid for victims of the conflict.

  • Friday, April 12th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

    The Iron Lady and I!

    Harold Briley (R) interviewing Margaret Thatcher in London as a Falklands’ anniversary reunion with David Tatham, a former governor of the Islands

    Mercopress correspondent Harold Briley knew Margaret Thatcher well, here reminiscing on fifty years of reporting her activities for half a century as a BBC Political, Latin America. Defence and East Europe Correspondent.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:25 UTC

    Maradona joins the Venezuelan campaign in support of Chavism and Maduro

    The former Argentine football star was an admirer and close friend of Hugo Chavez

    Venezuelan incumbent presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro’s closing campaign rally will have a special guest on Thursday with football legend Argentine Diego Maradona giving a celebrity boost to the colourful presidential elections that will test Hugo Chavez’s populist legacy.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:18 UTC

    Controversy over the cost of the funeral; William Hague to the rescue

    Hague argued that Lady Thatcher negotiated savings for the UK from the EU equivalent to £75bn, “that puts money in perspective”

    The cost of Lady Thatcher’s funeral next Wednesday will be revealed afterwards, but the Daily Mirror has estimated it could be as high as £10m. The taxpayer is expected to foot most of the bill, with the Thatcher family agreeing to make an unspecified contribution.
    Foreign Secretary Hague said Britain could “afford” to cover some of the costs.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 18:03 UTC

    Details of Lady Thatcher’s funeral; Cristina Fernandez not in the invite list

    Over 2.000 invitations will be sent out for the funeral service at St Paul’s

    Britain has decided not to invite Argentine President Cristina Kirchner to the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street said on Thursday. The decision follows on a special request from the Thatcher family.However Ambassdor Alicia Castro will be invited since according to diplomatic protocol Britain has normal relations with the UK, and it is a state to state issue.

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:26 UTC

    Crucially different from Hong Kong

    By Steve Tsang (*) - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fought a war with Argentina to defend the Falklands, but she negotiated with China over the future of Hong Kong. Should the apparent success of British diplomacy in securing an acceptable future of Hong Kong be a shining example for a similar solution for the Falklands?

  • Thursday, April 11th 2013 - 15:17 UTC

    Gibraltar represents a road map

    By Jose C. Moya (*) - The recent referendum’s near unanimous support for British rule seems to leave little space for negotiations. The passing of Thatcher -- who was seen as a liberator by most Islanders -- will, if anything, harden their position by reviving memories of the war. And the position of the Argentine population is equally hard, if the recent revival and political use of the issue by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is any indication.