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Montevideo, December 7th 2025 - 23:50 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:01 UTC

    “Argentina’s finances just got even more surreal”, by The Economist

    President Milei and mentor, Donald Trump, Make Argentina Great Again

    On September 22nd, 15 minutes before Argentina’s foreign-exchange markets opened, America’s government made an intervention. “Argentina is a systemically important US ally,” Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary, wrote on X, a social network. He added that the United States would “do what is needed” and that “all options for stabilization are on the table.”

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 22:35 UTC

    Vieira: Bolsonaro's conviction not open for discussion with Trump

    Vieira appeared before the Lower House's Foreign Affairs Committee

    Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said Wednesday during a hearing before the Lower House's Foreign Affairs Committee that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's openness to trade negotiations with his US counterpart Donald Trump was not to be taken for a prelude to a pardon for the convicted Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 22:08 UTC

    CFK fears peso devaluation after Oct. 26 midterm elections

    CFK also highlighted Milei's failure to deliver on his election promises

    As the Argentine Government of Javier Milei grapples to keep the local peso from plunging against the US dollar, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner posted from her house arrest that everybody knew about the impending devaluation after the Oct. 26 midterm elections. “Oh, Milei! ... It seems to me that they realized that after Sunday the 26th, you would devalue,” CFK wrote.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei announces new meeting with Trump at White House

    Milei and his entourage will be staying at the Blair Residence, spared for visiting close allies

    Argentine President Javier Milei will meet on Oct. 14 with his US counterpart, Donald J. Trump, at the White House, just a few days ahead of the midterm elections in the South American country, Casa Rosada confirmed Tuesday. “MEETING AT THE WHITE HOUSE. End,” Milei posted on X.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Milei restores ties with Macri after Buenos Aires defeat

    The reunion between the two leaders comes less than a month before the national legislative elections

    Argentine President Javier Milei has resumed dialogue with former president Mauricio Macri after more than a year of political distance. The rapprochement comes in the wake of La Libertad Avanza’s electoral defeat in Buenos Aires province, where Peronism won by more than one million votes.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Israeli community in Argentina seeks legal remedy to anti-Semitism episode

    Berenstein explained that a legal complaint was lodged for the possible commission of crimes

    The Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA) has filed a dual complaint—legal and educational—following the viral spread of a video showing high school students chanting overtly anti-Semitic slogans (“Today we burn Jews”) during a graduation trip.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 09:58 UTC

    Netanyahu insists Israel is not recognizing a Palestinian state

    Although 157 of the UN's 193 members have recognized Palestine, Netanyahu insists that doing so would be a threat to Israel's security

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support for the 20-point peace initiative presented by US President Donald Trump to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip. However, he was emphatic in rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state, despite the document mentioning a path toward self-determination.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 08:39 UTC

    Tony Blair eyed for leading role in Trump's Gaza peace plan

    Blair has a history in Middle East diplomacy, having served as the Middle East envoy for the Quartet (US, EU, UN, and Russia) until 2015

    Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair resurfaced onto the international political arena after being tapped to play an oversight role in US President Donald Trump's peace plan for the Gaza Strip.

  • Tuesday, September 30th 2025 - 20:29 UTC

    Petro ends FTA with Israel and reshapes the one with the US

    Petro announced a series of measures concerning foreign trade after reshuffling his diplomatic structure

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Monday the end of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Israel, as well as the reshaping of the existing one with the United States, following Washington's decision to expel him and revoke his visa for staging a pro-Palestine demonstration in the streets of New York during the 80th United Nations (UN) General Assembly.

  • Tuesday, September 30th 2025 - 19:48 UTC

    Chile: Supreme Court rules online gambling illegal unless expressly authorized

    The decision was reached by three votes to two

    The Third Constitutional Chamber of Chile's Supreme Court upheld by three votes to two an appeal filed by the Concepción Lottery, ruling that various telecommunications companies —including Claro, Entel, GTD, Telefónica (Movistar), WOM, and VTR— must immediately block all illegal online betting websites accessible in the country.