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Montevideo, August 8th 2025 - 03:35 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

    Europol addresses the growing threat of 3D printed weapons

    Chief Constable Gerda van Leeuwen at the Dutch National Police, said: “The development of 3D printing of firearms is a current and future threat ”

    Law enforcement professionals, ballistic experts, forensic scientists, policymakers and academia have gathered this week in The Hague, the Netherlands, for one of the world’s biggest platforms of exchange on the threat of 3D printed weapons.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Lula regains decisive advantage over Bolsonaro, survey shows

    Lula is once again poised for a first-round decisive victory after Bolsonaro had narrowed the gap in previous weeks

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva is once again on track for a landslide victory at this year's Oct. 2 elections over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, according to Datafolha's latest survey released Thursday.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

    FBI tips Paraguay of possible school massacre copycat

    Paraguayan Police Commissioner Diosnel Alarcón said the suspect behind these threats had been identified

    The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned Paraguayan Police of a local possible encore of the recent massacre at a Texas primary school in which 21 people were killed.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

    Bolivia wants better gas deal with Brazil

    Bolivia expects to receive an additional US$ 100 million from the new deal with Argentina

    Bolivia's Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy Franklin Molina said the agreement with Brazil for the sale of cooking gas signed during the arguably illegitimate administration of Janine Áñez was detrimental to his country and will now seek to reach a new, more favorable deal.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

    Biden negotiating Argentina's presence at Summit of the Americas

    Dodd has already met with several regional leaders with moderate success

    US President Joseph Biden's envoy Christopher Dodd arrived in Buenos Aires to talk Alberto Fernández into attending next month's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, a gathering many leaders intend to boycott following the host's decision not to invite the non-democratically ruled Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:58 UTC

    Pandemic shed light on gap between rich and poor, Alberto Fernández says

    How much longer will the South continue to endure this reality? Fernández wondered

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday said this region had tasted first-hand what it means to be less developed than other parts of the world as he opened the III Regional Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    The Falklands Conflict – Then and Now

    The book is a reminder of the “Forgotten Falklands” as “Help for Heroes” called them in their poll indicating that most people in the UK care little about the conflict

    By Harold Briley for MercoPress (London) – The 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict is being commemorated all year with events in the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom, and Argentina as MercoPress has reported.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:40 UTC

    Brazil cuts down Mercosur external tariffs yet again

    Brazil continues to negotiate with Mercosur partners Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay “to make this measure permanent”

    In a move to contain inflation ahead of this year's Oct. 2 elections, Brazil's Chamber of Foreign Trade decided to cut down the Mercosur Common External Tariff (TEC) by 10% on items such as beans, meat, pasta, cookies, rice, and construction materials, the Ministry of Economy announced.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

    Bolsonaro/Biden meeting during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles

    President Bolsonaro is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with president Biden in the sidelines of the Los Angeles Summit of the Americas

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles next month and plans to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden, according to Planalto Palace sources. The decision follows on a visit from Biden's special envoy, former Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd who met with Bolsonaro.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:33 UTC

    Archbishop of Buenos Aires calls for “fraternal Argentina”

    The trip to Antarctica was canceled due to bad weather

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández finally gave up his plans to spend the May 25 National holiday in Antarctica and walked from Casa Rosada with his entourage to the Cathedral after breakfast for the traditional te Deum (thanksgiving service) at the Buenos Aires Cathedral in charge of Archbishop Mario Poli, Jorge Bergoglio's successor since the latter became Pope Francis.