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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 22:17 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 09:14 UTC

    Brazil: Bruno and Dom case defendant granted house arrest

    Oseney da Costa de Oliveira will have to wear a tracking anklet while staying with a relative in Manaus

    Fisherman Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, one of the three people detained in connection with the 2022 murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist activist Bruno Pereira, was granted house arrest Friday by case rapporteur Justice Marcos Augusto de Sousa of Brasilia's Federal First Region Regional Court (TRF1), Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:24 UTC

    Lacalle Pou has 45% approval, study shows

    Lacalle's chances of running for a second term are yet to be gauged, the survey found

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou was found to have a 45% approval rating according to a study by pollsters Cifra conducted during the month of August and released Thursday in Montevideo. The head of state who is nearing the end of his five-year term also had a 40% negative image, the survey showed.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:00 UTC

    Haitian gov't announces security measures for merchant ships sailing to and from Port-au-Prince

    Conille's government is faced with shipping companies threatening to halt operations in the country as gangs favor smuggling to formal foreign trade

    Haitian authorities have announced that merchant ships will be escorted then entering a leaving Port-au-Prince given the mounting insecurity in the Caribbean country. Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille made this decision after four ships left to avoid gang violence.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    Water deficit places Ecuador under “red alert”

    Some 77,000 troops were deployed to protect Ecuador's key sites during nighttime blackouts

    A red alert has been declared in several parts of Ecuador hit by an unprecedented drought that resulted among other things in mass power cuts in a country already hit by spreading forest fires.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentine woman in England killed by her son

    Juliana had moved to England at the age of 20

    A 48-year-old Mar del Plata-born woman living in England was shot dead at her Luton home. The perpetrator appears to have been her 18-year-old son who would have also killed his two siblings. The suspect, named Nicholas Prosper, has been placed in custody. At the time of his detention some 600 meters from the crime scene he was still in possession of the gun used to assassinate Juliana Falcón, her son Kyle (16), and her daughter Giselle (13).

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 18:49 UTC

    European Parliament says González Urrutia is Venezuela's President-elect

    González Urrutia said he would continue to work for a democratic Venezuela from abroad and hoped to be back in his country in January for his intended inauguration

    The European Parliament Thursday recognized Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of Venezuela's July 28 controversial presidential elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed. Strasbourg reached this decision with 309 votes in favor, 201 against and 12 abstentions. Disenfranchised politician María Corina Machado has also been recognized as leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 14:12 UTC

    Israel reopens Embassy in Asunción

    From left to right: Magen, Peña, and Ohana cut the traditional ribbon during Wednesday's ceremony

    Israel reopened its Embassy in Asunción after six years Wednesday in a ceremony attendedd by President Santiago Peña, Foreign Minister Ruben Ramírez Lezcano, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, and Israel's Ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay Yoed Magen, among other high-ranking dignitaries. The mission had been closed in 2018 after then-President Mario Abdo Benítez moved the Paraguayan Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Venezuela issues arrest warrants against Milei, his sister and Minister Bullrich

    Saab called Milei “the most ferocious violator of human rights in the continent”

    Venezuela's Public Prosecutor's Office announced Wednesday the opening of an inquiry against Argentine President Javier Milei for alleged crimes against humanity and the “theft” of a Venezuelan state-owned airplane handed over to the United States. As a result, arrest warrants were issued against Milei, his sister and Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Mercosur should work together to reach FTA with China, says Yamandú Orsi

    “Europe is of little importance in the world today,” said Orsi

    Uruguayan presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi told Argentine businessmen in Buenos Aires on Wednesday that he remains “skeptical” about the possibility of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) concluding a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), but insisted that it must remain united to reach such an understanding with China. He also admitted before the Inter-American Council for Trade and Production (CICyP) that “Mercosur is malfunctioning”.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Argentina: Adorni promoted to ministerial rank

    Adorni holds daily press briefings among other tasks and his duties do not overlap with those of Press Secretary Eduardo Serenellini

    Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni has been promoted to Minister. President Javier Milei also insists that “there is no money” and vows to do his utmost to achieve a zero fiscal deficit while curbing government expenditures.