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Montevideo, November 10th 2025 - 12:45 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 19:05 UTC

    Monarchists planning a coup in Germany arrested

    The suspects were said to “follow a conglomeration of conspiratorial myths of so-called Reichsburger and QAnon ideologies”

    German authorities have arrested 25 people suspected of plotting to stage a coup d'etat through military means to reinstate a monarchy under “Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss zu Köstritz,” who was among those detained Wednesday morning in Frankfurt.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 18:44 UTC

    Castillo stages coup d'état in Peru, announces emergency gov't

    A curfew will be enforced and those in possession of guns must hand them over to the police or face penal consequences yet to be determined by a decree-law

    Hours before Congress was to vote on a new motion to depose Pedro Castillo Terrones as President of Peru, the incumbent head of state Wednesday dissolved Parliament and announced he was starting an “emergency government.” Hours later, the chief of the Government was arrested by the authorities in Lima.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 18:20 UTC

    Uruguay publishes unilateral statement regarding Mercosur Summit

    Unlike in previous years, there was no joint declaration after the Montevideo gathering

    Uruguay Wednesday issued a closing statement Wednesday ratifying President Luis Lacalle Pou's intentions to keep seeking trade opportunities outside Mercosur. The document came after the South American bloc's LXI Summit held earlier this week in Montevideo, which, unlike previous gatherings, produced no joint declaration.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    Mercosur Summit: Fernández tells Lacalle going solo is not the solution

    “We cannot wait 25 years to sign an agreement, it is not serious,” Lacalle said about Mercosur's deal with the EU, which is why seeking arrangements with other partners was called for

    “When in a society the rules are broken, someone is breaking them,” Argentine President Alberto Fernández told his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou during the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

    AMLO's Plan B triggered to reform Mexico's electoral system

    AMLO's Morena party seeks to reduce the bureaucratic apparatus to strengthen democratic life, which would also entail substantial savings

    Mexico's opposition has given the thumbs down to the electoral reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) who sought to cut down the red tape and add transparency to the voting process.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

    Brazil behind in contributions to global agencies

    Brazil might lose its voting rights within the UN and other global organizations if payments are not made

    The transition team leading Brazil from the current Jair Bolsonaro administration to the one headed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva due to take office on Jan. 1 Wednesday announced that the South American country was some US$ 1 billion behind with its payments to international organizations.

  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 09:03 UTC

    Dominica's PM retains power after snap elections

    Skerrit has been in office since 2004

    Dominica's incumbent Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit's party Tuesday scored yet another victory in the country's snap elections, according to preliminary results which showed the ruling DLP winning 15 of the 21 parliamentary seats at stake.

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 22:15 UTC

    CFK not to run for any office in 2023

    What the Judiciary Party, the maffia parallel state is to have me jailed or killed, CFK announced

    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Tuesday announced she will not be running for any office in the 2023 elections. The current Argentina Vice President made those statements during her speech after she was sentenced to six years in jail for corruption during her tenure as President (2008-2015).

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 21:26 UTC

    Argentina: CFK sentenced to six years in jail for corruption

    The ruling can be appealed so in practice nothing will change until all objections up to the Supreme Court have been exhausted

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been found guilty of corruption for fraudulent administration and sentenced to six years in jail plus a lifetime disenfranchisement, the Buenos Aires Federal Oral Court #2 announced Tuesday.

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    “Firing squad” sentence against CFK due Tuesday

    CFK plans a political response if convicted

    An Argentine Court is expected to announce a guilty verdict and an ensuing sentence against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) for alleged acts of corruption committed during her presidential terms (2008-2015).