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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 13:16 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 10:51 UTC

    Colombia: Duchess of Sussex speaks in Spanish with Argentine accent

    Markle used to work at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires 20 years ago

    Prince Harry's wife Meghan Markle spoke in Spanish this weekend during an event of Afro-descendant women in Cali alongside Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez. Although she completed her speech in English, he said a few words in the language she had learned while working at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    Uruguayan presidential hopeful wants negotiated solution for Venezuela

    The electoral process in Venezuela was “flawed and not very clear,” Orsi admitted

    Uruguayan opposition presidential candidate Yamandú Orsi this weekend supported a peaceful and negotiated solution to the Venezuelan crisis and insisted that “suffering should be the least possible.” The Broad Front nominee made those remarks when commenting on Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's suggestion that a coalition government of the ruling PSUV and the challenging PUD could be arranged pending fresh elections.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    Argentina says terrorist cell in Mendoza deactivated

    “They were planning attacks in Mendoza,” Bullrich said

    Argentine authorities last week dismantled what was believed to be an “Islamist” terrorist cell planning to attack Jewish community sites in the province of Mendoza and arrested seven suspects in the process, some trying to cross over to Chile and others at the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 08:41 UTC

    Venezuelans stage ecumenic protest against elections dubious results

    Machado took center stage as González Urrutia did not participate in Saturday's protests

    Supporters of Venezuela's opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) took to the streets of Caracas and of numerous other cities worldwide Saturday to insist that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia needs to be recognized as the winner of the July 28 polls instead of the incumbent Nicolás Maduro, whom the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced as victor despite never producing the minutes to back up such a statement.

  • Monday, August 19th 2024 - 07:38 UTC

    Brazil and China celebrate fifty years of diplomatic relations

    In the first half of 2024, Brazil exported US$ 28.44 billion in agricultural products to China, soybeans, corn, sugar, beef, chicken, cellulose, cotton, and fresh pork

    China and Brazil celebrated on August 15, fifty years of diplomatic relations, which with time paved the way for Beijing to become Latin America's largest economy main trading partner.

  • Saturday, August 17th 2024 - 08:55 UTC

    Uruguay's Central Bank keeps Monetary Policy Rate at 8.5%

    It was the first Copom meeting chaired by BCU's new president, Washington Ribeiro

    The Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of Uruguay's Central Bank (BCU) decided Friday to maintain the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 8.5% for the third month in a row to help keep inflation downwards and en route to the 4.5% Monetary Policy Horizon, it was announced in Montevideo after the first Copom meeting chaired by BCU's new president, Washington Ribeiro.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 22:03 UTC

    OAS recalls Mexico City and Barbados deals regarding Venezuelan crisis

    The OAS urged the CNE in Caracas to “expeditiously publish the presidential election records”

    The Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council passed a resolution Friday urging Venezuelan authorities, political forces, and citizenry to abide by the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Mexico City on August 13, 2021, as well as the Partial Agreement on the Promotion of Political Rights and Electoral Guarantees for All signed in Barbados on October 17, 2023, and therefore “abstain from any conduct that might jeopardize the peaceful settlement of this crisis, fully respecting the sovereign will of the electorate of Venezuela.”

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 21:36 UTC

    Chile's Supreme Court orders Jones Huala's release

    Jones Huala was deemed to have served out his sentence by June 14

    Chile's Supreme Court Friday ordered the immediate release of convicted Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala of Argentine origin because he had served out his sentence by June 14 and had therefore been “illegally deprived of his freedom.” The Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) activist had been convicted of arson and illegal possession of firearms in 2013.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 21:32 UTC

    Lula on Venezuela: Maduro's Government is “disgusting” and has “an authoritarian tendency”

    Lula expressed doubts about the validity of the recent presidential elections in Venezuela

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has voiced strong concerns about the political situation in Venezuela, describing the current regime under Nicolás Maduro as “very unpleasant, with an authoritarian tendency.” However, Lula stopped short of labeling it a “dictatorship,” underscoring the need for transparency in the electoral process.

  • Friday, August 16th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Maduro disagrees with Lula's idea of repeating elections

    Venezuela's sovereignty must be respected, Maduro insisted

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Thursday rejected his Brazilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's suggestion that fresh elections could be held as a way out of the current crisis stemming from the July 28 polls when the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced his victory but the opposition cried “fraud” since no documents were produced to back up that result.