Politics

Wednesday, February 14th 2024 - 10:39 UTC
Paraguayan Navy officer shot while touring Montevideo

Paraguayan Navy Captain Marcial Martínez Gayoso who is stationed in Montevideo on a Mercosur mission was shot Tuesday at the Fortaleza del Cerro historical site while visiting it with his family.
Wednesday, February 14th 2024 - 10:32 UTC
Peru: Trans community marches through Lima to demand protection

Scores of trans people and members of the LGTBIQ+ community staged a demonstration Tuesday through the streets of Lima to protest against hate crimes and defend their “right to life.” Since 2021, at least five members of the trans community have been murdered and threats and other violent incidents have been on the rise.
Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 11:19 UTC
Emtrasur freighter handed over to US leaves Ezeiza airport after 20 months

The Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft registration YV3531 of the company Empresa de Transporte Aerocargo del Sur (Emtrasur), a subsidiary of Conviasa, has left after 20 months the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Ezeiza, Argentina, for the United States.
Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Venezuelan VP calls Lacalle Pou “a lackey”

Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Monday Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had “the face of a lackey” after the latter insisted the Bolivarian regime was a dictatorship with no free elections.
Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Milei says he has built a positive bond with Pope Francis

Argentine President Javier Milei, who once called Pope Francis “nefarious” and other epithets, admitted Monday that he had to “reconsider some positions” after meeting in person with the leader of the Catholic faith and fellow Buenos Aires native.
Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Milei holds meetings with Meloni and Mattarella in Rome

In addition to meeting with Pope Francis, Argentine President Javier Milei seized his presence in Rome for an encounter with Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella to round up his first official trip abroad which also included a stopover in Israel.
Monday, February 12th 2024 - 10:58 UTC
Lacalle Pou insists Venezuela a dictatorship with no free elections

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said Sunday from Melo, the capital f of the department (province) of Cerro Largo that the current government of Venezuela was “a dictatorship.”
Monday, February 12th 2024 - 10:48 UTC
Milei and Francis embrace at Mama Antula's canonization

Argentine President Javier Milei and the Argentine-born Pope Francis embraced Sunday at the Vatican during the canonization of María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa (1730-1799), known as Mama Antula, who thus became the first female saint stemming from the current South American country.
Monday, February 12th 2024 - 10:32 UTC
Britain spends in defense companies an average of £370 for each Briton

The 2022/23 statistics released last week detail the money spent by the Ministry of Defense, MOD with UK defense companies. The breadth of spending highlights the government’s commitment to continually improving the defense sector, while supporting the economy and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country.
Monday, February 12th 2024 - 09:35 UTC
Trump wins New Hampshire primary: What are his odds of victory?

A year or two ago, Donald Trump's political rivals were celebrating his demise and even looking forward to the day when the former president would be behind bars. With several legal cases still pending against him, Trump chose to ignore and alarm his critics as he secured the New Hampshire nomination in late January.