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Montevideo, January 26th 2026 - 20:54 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, June 26th 2023 - 08:26 UTC

    Tight win for ruling party in Argentine province of Córdoba

    Llaryora claimed victory at 2 am Monday

    After Sunday's gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Córdoba, Martín Llaryora of the ruling front led by Governor Juan Schiaretti was congratulated as the winner by politicians from almost every party.

  • Sunday, June 25th 2023 - 20:34 UTC

    One of these 13 people will be Argentina's next president

    Only 3 political spaces will actually choose their candidates at the PASO elections. The others have already advanced to the Oct. 22 first round

    After Saturday's deadline for registering candidacies, there are only 13 contenders left, one of whom will be Argentina's next president comes Dec. 10.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    Presidential elections: Argentina's ruling party lines up behind Massa

    Unión por la Patria will join forces behind the economy minister with inflation above 100%

    Mighty Economy Minister Sergio Massa will be a presidential candidate in Argentina's upcoming mandatory, open, and simultaneous primary (PASO) elections on behalf of the ruling Unión por la Patria (UP) front, with Cabinet Chief Agustín Rossi as his running mate, it was announced Friday in Buenos Aires.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Paraná Waterway: Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia back Paraguay

    Argentina's toll was found to be “notoriously excessive” and detrimental to many of the country's interests

    Brazil, Uruguay, and Bolivia Friday supported Paraguay's stance regarding Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section of the Parana River, it was reported in Buenos Aires after a new meeting of the Commission of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

    Former death flights aircraft back in Argentine territory

    The former Argentine Coast Guard aircraft is already in Argentine territory. Her last flight will be to Buenos Aires on Monday

    The British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military dictatorship to throw three Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns alive into the sea in one of the so-called “death flights” in 1977 landed Friday at Tucumán and is expected in Buenos Aires by Monday to be added to a museum.

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    Lula insists on addressing inequality

    If we do not address inequality, people may have a better climate, but will continue to die of hunger, Lula warned

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday insisted in Paris on the advantages of using a common currency for foreign trade operations and underlined once again that the European Union's demands for the Mercosur agreement were a “threat.”

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

    OAS wants dialogue in Nicaragua

    The OAS insisted on abiding by “the principle of non-intervention”

    The Organization of American States (OAS) asked its 35 members to do their utmost to keep bridges open with the Nicaraguan government to have all political prisoners released and reach an end to human rights violations while allowing international organizations to enter its territory, it was reported in Washington DC.

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 11:10 UTC

    Microsoft AI lab inaugurated in Uruguay

    It is the fourth such facility worldwide

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday declared inaugurated Microsoft's first Artificial Intelligence laboratory in Latin America and the fourth in the world. The installations are at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU).

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Prosecution wants Bolsonaro convicted for advocating against electronic voting system

    Gonçalves' report was read out Thursday

    Brazil's Deputy Electoral Prosecutor Paulo Gonet Thursday insisted on the need to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of abuse of political power and misuse of the media for his remarks against the electronic voting system during a meeting in July last year as the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) began trying the case, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 08:47 UTC

    Modi highlights encounter between oldest, largest democracies

    When you talk of democracy, if there are no human values, and there is no humanity, there are no human rights, then it’s not a democracy,” Modi said in a post-meeting press briefing

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday highlighted before a joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington DC that his state visit brought together the oldest and the largest democracies in the world. Modi also underlined Vice President Kamala Harris’ Indian heritage.