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Montevideo, November 6th 2025 - 01:12 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    No majority achieved after Spain's snap elections

    “So Spain, Spaniards, comrades, we are more, many more of us who want Spain to move forward and so it will continue to be,” PM Sánchez said after Sunday's results

    Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won Sunday's general elections but is short of votes to make Alberto Núñez Feijoó, even though an alliance with the far-right VOX movement, it was reported in Madrid after over 98% of the polling stations were counted.

  • Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Lula needs hip surgery sometime this year

    After being injected with topical painkillers, Lula was able to carry on with his agenda

    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Sunday underwent pain-killing treatment at Sao Paulo's Hospital Sirio Libanês before attending a metalworkers' union event, it was reported. Lula has publicly complained of hip pain in recent months.

  • Saturday, July 22nd 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentine President confident about ongoing negotiations with IMF

    All negotiations with the Fund are difficult when one seeks to preserve one's own decisions, Fernández said

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday spoke with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to discuss a new understanding ahead of this year's elections, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, July 22nd 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Chile: No house arrest for those convicted of human rights violations

    “Crimes against humanity are unamnestible,” Cordero said

    The Chilean administration of President Gabriel Boric Font Friday spoke against granting house arrest to military personnel convicted of human rights violations during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). Justice Minister Luis Cordero denounced a proposal submitted by the ultra-right Republican Party in this regard.

  • Saturday, July 22nd 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    Lula signs decree limiting access to guns

    “We are going to continue fighting for a disarmed country,” Lula said

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday signed a decree limiting access to guns as part of the “Security Action Program” to curb violence in South America's largest country, it was reported.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine FM sends message to his British colleague regarding South Atlantic Islands

    “The UK has been violating Argentina's territorial integrity for 190 years,” Cafiero told Cleverly

    Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero sent a message to his British colleague James Cleverly saying that “the UK has been violating Argentina's territorial integrity for 190 years.” The British government considered Thursday that a “regrettable choice of words” had been made.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Brazil's gov't wants the “super rich” to pay income tax on funds abroad

    A worker who earns a low salary pays income tax and a millionaire does not, Haddad underlined

    Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said the federal government was considering additional taxes to the country's largest fortunes to “correct absurd things in the tax system,” it was reported. According to the former presidential candidate, the government wants to tax the “super rich” who have offshore funds or hold their investments in exclusive funds that currently do not pay income tax.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Labour and Lib Dems thrash the ruling Conservatives in by elections

    PM Rishi Sunak was spared the prospect of being the first prime minister for 55 years to lose three by-elections in one night

    Elections can be rough and the dichotomy of frenzy results even worse. Something of this happened in England where the Conservatives on Thursday suffered two heavy defeats, but narrowly held on to former PM Boris Johnson's old Uxbridge seat, after a night of three dramatic by-election results.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    Import barriers impact Argentina's health system

    There is an imminent risk of a shortage of products, spare parts, and supplies for medical equipment used in surgeries, diagnoses, and treatments.

    High-tech surgeries such as transplants and other treatments have been put on hold in Argentina due to restrictions on imports that have resulted in a lack of medical inputs leading to the suspension of transplants and other treatments, Buenos Aires' Clarín reported.

  • Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 23:15 UTC

    Cuban worker in Falklands/Malvinas granted Argentine residence

    “We Grant Rights, We Build #Sovereignty,” Carignano said on Twitter

    Argentine immigration authorities Wednesday granted residence to Cuban migrant Yamila Socorro Molina, who lives in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, it was reported in Buenos Aires. Migrations Director Florencia Carignano said it was a “historical precedent.”