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Montevideo, August 8th 2025 - 00:50 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

    Senator Petro ahead in all polls for Sunday's elections in Colombia

    If Pacto Histórico wins, Colombia would have a former guerrilla man and an Afro-descendant woman at the helm.

    The 62-year-old Senator Gustavo Petro is poised to win Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, according to all surveys, in what would be a historic turn to the left for the only NATO associate country in South America.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

    FTA with China would not make Uruguay dependent, Lacalle tells BBC

    “Today the US government is not looking south,” Lacalle underlined.

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said in an interview with the BBC that in case or reaching a Free Trade Agreement with China, it would not generate dependence, because in his country politics and economics were separate issues.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

    China forecasted to reduce soy oil consumption because of the lockdowns

    Demand for edible oils in 2021/22 marketing year beginning last September is set to drop 8.45% from a year ago to 39.02 million tons, the first decline this century

    Plunging demand for soy oil in China is expected to cut consumption of the oilseed in the world’s biggest user as lockdowns to prevent the spread of COVID have shuttered restaurants and canteens, according to traders and analysts. China is the world’s top consumer of edible oils, with millions of restaurants guzzling about half of the country’s roughly 17 million tons of soy oil, made from crushing soybeans.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

    Lula celebrates new polls and asks Colombians to support Petro

    Comrade Gustavo Petro is the right choice for Colombia and Brazil, Lula also said

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Friday celebrated the results of Datafolha's most recent survey, according to which he might win the Oct. 2 elections, even probably in the first round.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

    Buddies getting together not a Summit, LatAm leaders agree

    Biden must be under lots of pressure, AMLO said

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora said Friday in Havana that buddies getting together was hardly a Summit, in reference to the US Government's decision not to invite Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba to the regional gathering of heads of state next month in Los Angeles.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

    House of Commons Speaker will attend Goose Green Liberation service Sunday

    Sir Hoyle congratulated the Falklands for securing Stanley city status, but would like to take back home photos of signs identifying Stanley as a city

    Sir Lindsay Hoyle Speaker of the House of Commons, currently on a visit to the Falkland Islands announced he will attend Sunday's Goose Green Liberation commemoration, called on the Falklands Legislative to take advantage of his chairmanship to promote initiatives for the benefit of the Islands, and underlined that Islanders can only decide Islanders' self-determination and future.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

    Argentine northern provinces decry fuel shortage

    Cabinet Chief Manzur vowed to solve the issue as soon as possible

    The Governor of the Argentine province of Misiones, Oscar Herrera Ahuad, Friday warned that the shortage of diesel fuel was particularly detrimental to the yerba mate sector, which is halfway through its harvest season

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    Peru's President takes steps to attend Los Angeles Summit

    Castillo was believed to be ideologically closer to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Apparently, it is not the case

    Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones has filed a request before the National Congress to be allowed to leave the country between June 7 and 12 to attend the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    US has more civilian guns than people: 120,5 for every 100 Americans

    United States is one of the only three countries where its citizens have a constitutional right to carry or have a gun

    United States is the only country in the world where civilian guns outnumber people, according to the Swiss base Small Arms Survey (SAS), and is also the country where at least one mass shooting takes place every year, as has tragically happened in Texas, where 19 school children and two teachers were killed by some mentally ill teenager.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Bolsonaro says Brazil's role acknowledged by world leaders

    “Look at what is happening in Argentina, in Chile, in Venezuela” who are suffering the consequences of voting for the “wrong candidate,” Bolsonaro underlined

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro highlighted his country's importance worldwide following the announcement of a one-on-one meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden at the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, in addition to his encounter in February with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.