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Montevideo, July 20th 2025 - 04:37 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 11:55 UTC

    Lula promises to help his “friend” Alberto Fernández

    Alberto may fly back to Argentina calmer, Lula said. “It is true that without any money, but with a lot of political disposition...”

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday thanked his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for the latter's commitment to helping Argentine overcome the current crisis: “I celebrate the explicit support that Lula has given us as a country and as a government,” Fernández said after the meeting at the Alvorada Palace. He also highlighted Lula's pledge to strengthen Brazilian exports and support negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 11:20 UTC

    “Super May”: Eight Kirchnerite provinces advance local elections to avoid October debacle

    All eight elections will be held in the first two Sundays of May, some with electronic votes, others with the more traditional envelope ballots.

    With the Argentine government of Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in total disarray, the economy in shambles and with no hard currency, while a top delegation travels the world, China, Brazil, the US, and the IMF begging for fresh funds, several Argentine provinces are holding their local elections for governor and lawmakers, un hooked from the national presidential event next October.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 11:13 UTC

    Deforestation controversy: despite EU landmark legislation, Brazil will keep to its own legal system

    Former agriculture minister Roberto Rodriguez said the law amounted to a non-tariff trade barrier, calling it “exaggerated protectionism.”

    Brazil’s government said it could not interfere with a landmark EU law banning imports of commodities linked to deforestation but will keep farming according to its own laws. The law approved by the European Parliament on April 19 bans imports of coffee, beef, soy, palm oil, cocoa, rubber, wood, charcoal and derived products including leather, chocolate and furniture if they are linked to forest destruction.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 11:03 UTC

    ELN, Colombian gov't resume talks in Havana

    “We reaffirm our country's willingness to contribute to the success of this century of dialogues,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez explained

    The Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group Tuesday resumed peace talks in Havana, Cuba, while President Gustavo Petro is on a tour of Spain.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    World Press Freedom Day: IAPA anything but optimistic

    “It is impossible to sustain democracy without the proper freedom and protection that journalists and the media need...,” Greenspon said

    Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) President Michael Greenspon was anything but optimistic in his World Press Freedom Day message after reports showed that, in the last semester, 10 journalists were murdered: 5 in Haiti and the others in Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, and Paraguay.

  • Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:57 UTC

    Massa to broker imports from Brazil paid in Argentine pesos

    The Economy Minister will join President Alberto Fernández's entourage

    Argentina's Economy Minister Sergio Massa will travel to Brazil alongside President Alberto Fernández to find credit alternatives through which to spend fewer dollars in bilateral trade, it was reported.

  • Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Colombia: Petro moves on with drastic reforms

    “The agrarian reform is one of the most important, one of the fundamental policies of social change in Colombia,” Petro said in his Labor Day message

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Monday insisted that people in his country have no rights or freedom when introducing a new set of measures and appointing seven new cabinet ministers. Colombia “is a people without freedom,” Petro argued.

  • Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    FIDF members rehearsing in London, next to Commonwealth and UK soldiers for the Coronation

    Despite an 18 hour flight the group right away joined the rehearsing for the procession that will accompany the King and Queen Consort from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace.

    Members of the Falkland Islands Defense Force especially invited to participate in the coming Coronation of King Charles III are already in London and have been training daily alongside Commonwealth and UK soldiers.

  • Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Schools in Mar del Plata to be named after 1982 war fallen

    Mar del Plata City Council Speaker Marina Sánchez Herrero was very moved when making the announcement

    Public schools and kindergartens in the Argentine beach resort and port of Mar del Plata will be named after local combatants fallen in the 1982 Malvinas War, it was announced Monday. The initiative was approved unanimously by the City Council.

  • Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Lula sets up committee to work on legislating Uber-like work

    If these workers get sick they must have coverage, Lula said

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration created a working group to draft labor rules for drivers and good deliverers using mobile applications. The initiative was published Monday in the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette).