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Montevideo, November 9th 2025 - 00:38 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 14:57 UTC

    Alberto Fernandez suggested that he would run against Cristina Kirchner in the internal elections

    Alberto Fernández advocated for the unity of the Frente de Todos: “The only aspiration I have is for the Frente de Todos to win. I want us to elect the one who can make us win”, he said.

    On Sunday, President Alberto Fernández stated in an interview that Peronism must “renew itself once again and put an end to personalism”. He also emphasized that his ”enemy is not the comrades of the Frente de Todos (FdT) but the Macrismo and the recalcitrant right-wing”. Fernández asserted that the FdT cares about the weakest sectors of society and represents the middle class and impoverished sectors of Argentina.

  • Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 14:14 UTC

    Juan Guaidó denounces that “Maduro is about to issue arrest warrant” against him

    It should be noted that Guaidó's interim government was dissolved in December 2022 by the majority of former deputies who had previously supported him in 2019.

    Juan Guaidó, the former interim president of Venezuela and leader of the opposition, has reported that the regime of Nicolas Maduro is planning to arrest him in the coming hours. Guaidó made the announcement in a video posted on his social media accounts on April 2, amidst a series of arrests of officials and personalities close to chavism, who have been accused of corruption in the state oil company PDVSA and other public entities.

  • Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 11:01 UTC

    President calls Argentines to hold war veterans where they belong

    Argentina will recover the Malvinas through peaceful means, Alberto Fernández insisted

    President Alberto Fernández called Argentines to “feel proud” and “put the ex-combatants in their rightful place” during the celebration of the 41st anniversary of the landing in Stanley (then renamed Puerto Argentino) by the South American country's troops which kicked off the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas war.

  • Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    Brazil: 4 Argentine workers rescued from slavery conditions

    The four victims had been promised monetary compensation for cutting down eucalyptus trees

    Four Argentines working in slavery conditions were rescued by Brazil's Federal Police Saturday in Nova Petrópolis, 90 kilometers from Porto Alegre, according to an O Globo report which also mentioned that the group had been abandoned by their employers in a rural property without resources or food. Among the victims was a 14-year-old minor. A suspect was arrested.

  • Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 09:24 UTC

    China and Brazil reach accord to trade with their own currencies, avoiding the US dollar

    At the end of January, the central banks of China and Brazil signed a memorandum that established a “clearing house” in Brazil

    China and Brazil have reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar as a common currency, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, March 29. China has become Brazil's main trading partner.

  • Monday, April 3rd 2023 - 09:19 UTC

    Ecuadorian President okays right to bear arms and pepper spray

    Lasso spoke of a “crusade for security”

    The Ecuadorian government of President Guillermo Lasso announced during the weekend that the possession and carrying of handguns by civilians had been authorized in another move to curb violent crime nationwide. “We have a common enemy: delinquency, drug trafficking, and organized crime; we are going to fight them with three new urgent measures,”

  • Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 19:44 UTC

    Malvinas Veterans, Fallen and Families Day

    Miguel Angel Pichetto, Argentina's National Auditor

    April 2nd is a special date in the calendar of Argentine events, the country renders homage to the Malvinas Veterans, Fallen, and Families of mostly thousands of raw Conscripts sent by the military Junta 41 years ago, in 1982 to invade and occupy the Falkland Islands. Argentina has been claiming sovereignty over the Falklands, alleging inheritance from once the Spanish empire, and later Argentine governments extended their demand to include “South Atlantic Islands and surrounding maritime spaces”.

  • Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 11:56 UTC

    Argentines hold nationwide Veterans Day celebrations to honor the fallen

    “Malvinasization is lived here very strongly, from the heart,” Santa Cruz Governor Alicia Kirchner said

    Multiple events are to be held across Argentina Sunday marking Veterans Day 41 years after the military Junta's troops landed in Stanley (then renamed Puerto Argentino) thus kicking off the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas War with the United Kingdom.

  • Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 11:43 UTC

    Dilma Rousseff elected head of BRICS New Development Bank seated in Shanghai

    Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was “unanimously” elected as the head of the New Development Bank (NDB), a multilateral financial institution set up by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. Rousseff, 75, succeeds her fellow Brazilian Marcos Troyjo, at the Shanghai-headquartered bank.

  • Sunday, April 2nd 2023 - 11:27 UTC

    Russia takes over the rotating UN Security Council presidency

    Moscow will however not sponsor from the UN any action regarding Russia's war with Ukraine

    Russia took over the United Nations Security Council rotating presidency on Saturday promising to act as an honest broker, Moscow's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Telegram. He added that all attempts to provoke Russia are doomed to fail. “Unlike our former Western partners, we play fair in the international arena and we do not promote double standards,” he added.