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Montevideo, October 24th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 23:01 UTC

    Ceremonies in Buenos Aires on the Day of the Malvinas Veteran and the Fallen in combat

    The cenotaph at Plaza San Martin which honors the 649 Argentines fallen in combat during the Falklands conflict.

    April 2nd is a very special day in the Argentine calendar, a national holiday, which recalls the Falklands conflict, (when the Argentine military landed and occupied the Islands that day in 1982) and is remembered as the “Day of the Malvinas Veteran and the Fallen in combat”.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 19:54 UTC

    Brazilian VP down with Covid-19

    Alckmin was said to be doing well after showing mild symptoms of the malady

    Brazil's Vice President Geraldo Alckmin stayed at home Monday after being diagnosed with Covid-19, Agencia Brasil reported. Alckin is also Minister of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 19:05 UTC

    Ties between Argentina and Colombia getting back to normal

    Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino will be traveling to Bogotá shortly

    Diplomatic authorities of Argentina and Colombia have taken “concrete steps” to overcome their government's “differences” and restore ties between both countries to normal following the engagement in reciprocal diatribes on TV and on social media by Presidents Gustavo Petro and Javier Milei.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 12:22 UTC

    Federal Reserve chairman Powell, “in no rush to begin cutting interest rates”

    Powell said, and even though the numbers showed less of a slowdown than last year, “you won't see us overreacting.”

    Despite an encouraging Personal Consumption Expenditure Index, PCE, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell repeated on Sunday that the U.S. central bank isn’t in any rush to cut interest rates as policymakers await more evidence that inflation is contained.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 12:16 UTC

    Falklands: happy birthday to the Typhoon

    Typhoon overflying the Falklands (Pic Andy Donovan.)

    It’s 30 years today since the first Eurofighter Typhoon flight of Development Aircraft 1 (DA1) at Manching in Germany. The first UK development aircraft, DA2, flew a few weeks later at Warton on the 6th April 1994.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    Milei denounces intimidating threats on social media

    Milei also spoke of a campaign of violence against him

    Argentine President Javier Milei wrote Sunday on social media about intimidating messages and death threats he had been receiving. He showed drawings of himself, one of them captioned: “The noise will be the tomb of the regime.” Milei also questioned reporters “who joined the wave of violence.”

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Rosario people switching housing preferences to meet security demands

    Parts of Greater Rosario have seen their population double in recent years

    Realtors in the Argentine city of Rosario -the hometown of Lionel Messi and many other celebrities in the country- reported that local clients are switching to apartments from houses as they felt more secure given the mounting drug gang violence. Those who can afford it also prefer gated communities such as country club residences.

  • Monday, April 1st 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Peruvian President targeted in corruption scandal over pricy watches

    A group of lawmakers began collecting signatures last week to call for Boluarte's impeachment

    President Dina Boluarte's home in the Lima district of Surquillo was raided late Friday by the Police who went on to the Executive Branch's headquarters in the early hours of Saturday to carry out a search-and-size warrant granted by a Supreme Court magistrate to Attorney General Juan Villena.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:33 UTC

    Datafloha: About 55% of Brazilians think Bolsonaro tried to stage a coup d'état

    Bolsonaro was denied his passport by De Moraes to travel to Israel in May

    According to a Datafolha survey released Friday by Folha de S.Paulo, 55% of Brazilians believe former President Jair Bolsonaro wanted to stage a coup d'état whereas 39% of those interviewed thought the retired Army captain never had such intentions. In addition, 7% of respondents were unable to answer that question.

  • Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:24 UTC

    No diplomatic rift between Argentina and Mexico despite verbal clash between Milei and AMLO

    Mondino and Bárcena agreed that things would not escalate

    Foreign Ministries Diana Mondino of Argentina and Alicia Bárcena of Mexico held a telephone conversation Friday during which they concurred that the recent exchange of epithets between Presidents Javier Milei and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) did not jeopardize the two countries' diplomatic relations, which they agreed to label as “solid.” Bárcena and Mondino thus made it clear that neither nation intended to escalate the dispute.