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Montevideo, December 28th 2025 - 07:34 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2024 - 22:44 UTC

    Thousands gather in Caracas to support Machado

    “Violence is pretending to bury the truth,” Machado insisted

    The streets of Caracas were packed Saturday with supporters of disenfranchised opposition leader María Corina Machado, who insisted that “the truth is in the minutes” in her possession which proved that Edmundo González Urrutia had defeated the incumbent Nicolás Maduro in last Sunday's elections.

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2024 - 19:23 UTC

    OAS calls for peaceful solution to Venezuelan crisis

    “The 'peace' of repression, fear, and terror is not peace,” the OAS argued

    The Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretariat issued a statement Saturday hoping for a peaceful solution to the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela.

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2024 - 09:45 UTC

    Montevideo says González Urrutia won but still not president-elect

    Appointing the president-elect “is a formal process that has not yet taken place,” Paganini explained

    Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini said Friday that there was an “overwhelming amount of information” whereby opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia may be considered the winner of Sunday's elections. However, Montevideo could not recognize him as president-elect because that legal procedure was up to the Venezuelan authorities.

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2024 - 09:40 UTC

    Argentina decrees 63% hike on Paraná-Paraguay Waterway tolls

    The new price was set taking into account the CPI over the last 22 years, it was explained

    The Argentine administration of President Javier Milei decreed a 63% hike in the tolls collected from barges sailing through the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway effective this month. The adjustment set a new price of US$ 4.98 (from the previous US$ 3.06) per Net Register Ton (NRT). The figure is projected to reach US$ 6.04 per TRN in 2027.

  • Friday, August 2nd 2024 - 21:57 UTC

    González Urrutia thanks US for Blinken's acknowledgment

    María Corina Machado went into hiding in fear for her life

    Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia Friday thanked the US Government of President Joseph Biden for recognizing him as president-elect despite the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas granting victory to the incumbent Nicolás Maduro.

  • Friday, August 2nd 2024 - 11:57 UTC

    Bank of England cuts basic rate to 5% in divided vote; monetary policy will continue restrictive

    Andrew Bailey, Chair of the Bank of England, admitted that the fall in interest rates was “not mission accomplished yet”.

    The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, MPC at its meeting ending on 31 July 2024, voted by a majority of 5–4 to reduce Bank Rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 5%. Four members preferred to maintain Bank Rate at 5.25%.

  • Friday, August 2nd 2024 - 11:24 UTC

    PM Keir Starmer and Lula da Sila confirm close relations between Brazil/ UK 

    Sir Keir Starmer and Lula da Silva

    United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Brazilian President Lula da Silva this week. The Brazilian President warmly welcomed the Prime Minister’s recent election victory, and the leaders discussed the close areas of collaboration between the UK and Brazil, including on climate and nature. 

  • Friday, August 2nd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    US says González Urrutia won the Venezuelan elections

    The State Secretary recalled that the results announced by the opposition would corroborate the exit polls and the conclusions of independent observers

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted Thursday that opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had won Sunday's elections in Venezuela despite the National Electoral Council (CNE) announcing that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed with 51.2% of the vote to 44.2%.

  • Friday, August 2nd 2024 - 08:44 UTC

    Maduro says maximum security prisons await protesters

    Maduro also joked that the incarcerated protesters should be put to work to “build more roads”

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced Thursday that two maximum security prisons were to be refurbished in haste to house and “reeducate” the political opponents of his regime who were arrested during the recent protests following his fudgy reelection last Sunday.

  • Friday, August 2nd 2024 - 08:44 UTC

    Milei and Macri meet at Olivos presidential residence

    Macri said at a rally that he would still support Milei but PRO and LLA would not merge

    Argentine President Javier Milei welcomed former head of state Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) at the Olivos residence. The private encounter lasted about four hours. No information was released about the issues discussed but Spokesman Manuel Adorni said it was “a meeting of friends.” According to local media, it was a follow-up on the talks they held on July 8 and 9 in Tucumán during the signing of the so-called May Pact.