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Montevideo, November 23rd 2024 - 15:52 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 20:36 UTC

    Santiago's electricity company given ultimatum

    In case of failure, the Government would move on to the adversarial phase, Pardow explained

    The Chilean Government of President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday gave the electricity company Enel until midnight local time to reconnect the service to some 20,000 households in the Santiago Metropolitan Region (MR) where the outage reached its seventh day in a row. Energy Minister Diego Pardow held a press conference to explain the impending steps to terminate Enel's concession should it fail to deliver.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 17:48 UTC

    Argentina lowers levy on beef exports, farmers happy but the overall policy questioned

    The latest numbers from meat exporters shows that China takes 81% of Argentine beef sales, Israel 6%, United States 5%, Germany 4% and Netherlands 3,6%.

    The Argentine government is lowering beef export tax 25%, from 9% to 6,75% basically “to promote sales to foreign markets and improve the level of income of producers and processors, favoring the insertion of Argentina in international markets”, points out the decree published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette.

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Former CFK Trade Secretary handed down 3-yr sentence

    “After 14 years the Judiciary says Indec's public statistics are correct,” Moreno underlined

    Former Argentine Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno was sentenced to three years in jail and imposed a six-year disenfranchisement. According to local media, he was found guilty of rigging the data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) between 2006 and 2007 under then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

  • Thursday, August 8th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

    Argentina recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

    Mondino had declared González Urrutia the winner earlier on but Milei's Government exerted some caution until Wednesday

    Argentina's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Wednesday recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) as the “undisputed winner” winner of the July 28 polls in Venezuela, in defiance of the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) whereby the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been reelected for the 2025-2031 term.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 22:09 UTC

    Boric angry as Santiago power cuts reach 6th day

    “We are talking about a regulated monopoly,” Boric stressed

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday instructed the Energy Ministry to review the agreement whereby the company Enel has been awarded the right to provide the Santiago Metropolitan Region with electricity after the outage affecting some 60,000 households reached its sixth consecutive day.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 18:49 UTC

    VPs of Argentina, Uruguay share views on Venezuelan crisis

    Argimón (L) and Villarruel met in Buenos Aires for a workshop on parliamentary challenges

    Vice Presidents Beatriz Argimón of Uruguay and Victoria Villarruel of Argentina met in Buenos Aires during an international workshop where the Venezuelan crisis after the controversial July 28 elections was discussed, among other topics. Both Senate Speakers agreed on a proposed summit to discuss the case.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

    Maduro updates number of “terrorists” arrested to 2,229

    On Saturday they will be transferred to the newly-refurbished Tocorón and Tocuyito prisons, Maduro also said

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Tuesday updated the number of people arrested for the protests that erupted after he was announced to have been reelected for the 2025-2031 term. “There are 2,229 terrorists captured, with evidence,” he stressed. ”And on Saturday they will be transferred to (the prisons of) Tocorón and Tocuyito [which] are already ready for terrorists and criminals!”, he added from the Miraflores Palace.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 09:00 UTC

    Lula lays the foundation stone of Chile's Space Center

    “There is no activity today that does not require space infrastructure,” Lula underlined

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Tuesday laid the foundation stone of Chile's planned Space Center at the Cerrillos Air Base in Santiago during a ceremony also attended by his local colleague Gabriel Boric Font. The two countries also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Space Activities for Peaceful Purposes.

  • Wednesday, August 7th 2024 - 08:08 UTC

    Former First Lady files criminal complaint against Alberto Fernández

    Yáñez spoke with Judge Ercolini through a video conference from Spain to tell her side of the story

    Former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against her then-common-law spouse and head of state Alberto Fernández for exerting “gender violence” against her. The case ended up in the court of Federal Judge Julián Ercolini, who banned Fernández from leaving the country, coming anywhere near the mother of his son Francisco, or even contacting her on the telephone.

  • Tuesday, August 6th 2024 - 23:31 UTC

    Falklands' Port Replacement: FIG halts contract negotiations with Harland and Wolff

    The government reaffirms its dedication to the timely completion of the port replacement project

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has announced the termination of contractual negotiations with Harland and Wolff for the port replacement project. The decision was reached after an extraordinary Executive Council (ExCo) meeting on August 1, 2024.