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Montevideo, July 18th 2025 - 13:40 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    WaPo: US pushing for 6 new UN Security Council permanent members

    African countries insist they were under colonial domination when the UN was established

    According to The Washington Post, the United States is developing a proposal to add six permanent members to the UN Security Council who would nonetheless not have veto rights. “The evolving US proposal, which is expected to include the addition of up to six permanent seats to the Council without granting those nations veto power, ” the WaPo reported on Monday.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Spain exhuming Civil War remains and returning them to their families towns

    The law, one of the first to be passed by Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez, aims to make reparations to the families of Franco's victims and modernize the narrative

    A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Chile launches Feminist Foreign Policy plan

    The Feminist Foreign Policy Plan “is a paradigm under construction, which will necessarily be updated,” van Klaveren said

    Chile Monday became the first South American country to implement a “Feminist Foreign Policy,” it was reported in Santiago. The Feminist Foreign Policy Plan (PEF) seeks to establish gender equality as a guiding principle in the Foreign Ministry, it was explained.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Italy mourns Il Cavaliere Berlusconi, the end of an era in Italy

    Berlusconi had an outsized impact on Italian society and politics, and was the subject of highly complex civil and criminal investigations.

    The passing of Il Cavaliere, Silvio Berlusconi, is the end of an era for Italy. For the past fifty years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 08:16 UTC

    UAE Minister has busy day in Buenos Aires

    Minister Reem Al Hashimy met first with Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero and then with Vice President CFK

    Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Monday welcomed United Arab Emirates Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy to deepen bilateral ties and open new exchange channels between both countries, it was reported by the Palacio San Martín.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:36 UTC

    Brazilian beef stranded in Chinese ports triggers a Lula phone call to Xi

    According to Lula, Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, informed him that “70,000 tons of meat are stuck inside containers at Chinese ports.”

    Since some 70,000 tons of Brazilian beef are stranded at Chinese ports awaiting an official clearance resolution from Beijing since the identification of an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as “mad cow disease” in Brazil, President Lula da Silva revealed he contacted his counterpart Xi Jinping on Juke 6, to try and overcome the situation.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:28 UTC

    Scotland's SNP in disarray, police question Sturgeon on independence referendum finances

    The former First Minister said she intended to be back in Parliament soon where “I will continue to represent my Glasgow Southside constituents.”

    Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been released without charge pending further investigations after being arrested by police. She was arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Scottish National Party's funding and finances at 10:09 on Sunday, reports the BBC.

  • Monday, June 12th 2023 - 11:02 UTC

    Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi succumbs to leukemia

    As news of Berlusconi's passing spreads across Italy and the world, tributes and condolences pour in from political figures, supporters, and opponents alike.

    Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant former Prime Minister of Italy, has passed away at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan after battling leukemia for an extended period, as reported by Italian media today.

  • Monday, June 12th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

    Uruguayan President off to NYC to collect accolade

    The president cannot leave the country for more than 48 hours without the Senate's consent

    President Luis Lacalle Pou left Sunday for the United States to receive the Gold Insigne Award, given by the Americas Society Forum in New York.

  • Monday, June 12th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Provincial elections in Argentina: ruling FdT wins only 1 province out of 4

    Alfredo Cornejo (Mendoza), Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán), Claudio Poggi (San Luis).

    The opposition Together for Change (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) celebrated three victories in provincial elections in Argentina on Sunday: Governor Gustavo Valdés of the UCR (a JxC member) celebrated in Corrientes, former Governor Alfredo Cornejo won the open primaries in Mendoza and looks poised to returning to the provincial helm later this year but in San Luis, former Governor Claudio Poggi shocked Governor Alberto Rodríguez Saa's candidate Jorge Fernández. On the other hand, the Peronist Frente de Todos (FdT) of President Alberto Fernández won by a landslide in Tucumán. Lieutenant Governor Osvaldo Jaldo became Governor-elect.