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Montevideo, January 26th 2026 - 22:15 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Paraguay foreign trade rebounds in May, surplus of US$ 1,261 billion

    The Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) reveals that exports in May 2023 reached a total value of US$ 7,174.9 million, marking a significant 26.9% increase

    The latest foreign trade report from the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) reveals that the country’s exports in May 2023 reached a total value of US$ 7,174.9 million, marking a significant 26.9% increase compared to the same month in the previous year.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

    Is it really the end of populism

    It feels over in the UK, where Johnson is totally discredited and the Conservative Party is heading for almost certain defeat in the next election

    By Gwynne Dyer – We’re going to miss them the populist ‘big beasts’ now they’re gone. Who will now tell us that “Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3”? (Boris Johnson)

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Peruvian paramilitary chiefs convicted of a murder in the 1990s

    Montesinos was then-President Fuhimori's Chief Intelligence Officer

    Former Peruvian National Intelligence Service (SIE) Chief Vladimiro Montesinos and Santiago Martin Rivas, leader of the paramilitary Colina Group created under then-President Alberto Fujimori, were sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison for the premeditated murder of Mariella Barreto, it was reported in Lima.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    WWII: Graf Spee's eagle to be turned into a bronze dove of peace

    “The signal from our country to our people and the outside world is that we are a society of peace and union,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 2006 will be transformed into a dove as a “symbol of peace and union” by local artist Pablo Atchugarry, whose work is expected to be completed by November, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Uruguayan State admits guilt in 1974 “April Girls” murders

    Vice President Argimón urged Uruguayans to provide information on missing persons

    During a ceremony at the Legislative Palace in Montevideo presided over by Vice President Beatriz Argimón, and pursuant to a sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), the Uruguayan State Thursday admitted its responsibility in the April 21, 1974, murders of Laura Raggio, Diana Maidanik, and Silvia Reyes by the military during the last civil-military dictatorship (1973-1985).

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    UK Parliament consulting Falklands Legislative Assembly on Overseas Territoires

    There is an inquiry by UK Parliament into Overseas Territories status in the 21st Century and the Falklands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission

    There is currently an inquiry by UK Parliament into the status of the Overseas Territories in the 21st Century and the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission, confirmed MLA Teslyn Barkman to Penguin News this week.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:59 UTC

    US: Charges filed against intel-leaking soldier

    Teixeira remains in federal custody as he awaits his court proceedings

    US Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has been charged Thursday on six federal counts on six counts of willful retention and transmission on social media sites of classified information relating to national defense to which he had access thanks to his security clearance as a cyber defense operations journeyman.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

    Iranian President rounds up Latin American tour

    Cuba has a friend in Iran, Díaz-Canel told Raisi

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Wednesday rounded up a Latin American tour after his stop in Havana to meet with his Cuban colleague Miguel Díaz-Canel following calls in Caracas and Managua

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

    Four Lebanese nationals wanted in Argentina in AMIA bombing probe

    The four suspects are believed to have helped the actual perpetrators of the bombing into the country

    Argentine Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas Thursday ordered the arrest of four Lebanese nationals for their alleged involvement in the July 18, 1994, bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Welfare Association (AMIA) headquarters in Buenos Aires.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 09:41 UTC

    Guatemalan court hands down 6-year prison sentence to newspaper founder

    The case against Zamora has been dubbed “a witch hunt”

    José Rubén Zamora, founder of El Periódico, a newspaper critical of Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei which went out of business last month, has been sentenced to six years in jail for alleged money laundering, it was reported. Both Zamora and the Prosecutor's Office announced that they will appeal the ruling.