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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 08:38 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

    United Nations, is where our threatening neighbor hopes to gather support to rewrite history to suit their colonialist ambitions.

    By MLA Teslyn Barkman

    The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC

    “Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

    My family had been Falkland Islanders for over 100 years before Argentina first made their claim to the UN.

    A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

    Argentina: Former Governor and Senator given 16 years for rape

    Alperovich and his wife used to be close to Néstor and Cristina Kirchner

    The three-time former governor of the Argentine province of Tucumán José Alperovich was sentenced to 16 years in prison Tuesday for sexually abusing his niece, who worked as his secretary during his term as a national senator. It took Judge Juan Ramos Padilla 15 hearings and testimony from almost 70 witnesses and experts to hand down his verdict and decision which also included the defendant's disenfranchisement.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 09:49 UTC

    Rio Grande do Sul's death toll updated to 177

    Fraport not leaving Salgado Filho airport despite local CEO's remarks

    According to an updated report on the floods in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul released Tuesday, 177 people had perished while 37 others were still unaccounted for. Agencia Brasil also said some 10,000 people were still in shelters as Civil Defense authorities issued a new heavy rain alert after at least 19 municipalities were damaged by new floods this past weekend.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 09:44 UTC

    Honduras following in on El Salvador's example of tackling crime

    Xiomara Castro has already decreed a state of partial emergency that achieved very little in curbing violence

    Honduran President Xiomara Castro has undertaken a series of security reforms collectively known as the Solution Plan against Crime somehow resembling those of neighboring El Salvador under Nayib Bukele, it was reported in Tegucigalpa.

  • Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 07:05 UTC

    “We want to be us, a free people, practicing self-determination in a democratic country”, Falklands MLA Short

    Address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Also known as the Committee or C24, 18 June 2024. Petition by MLA Gavin Short, member of the Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly.

  • Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 21:42 UTC

    Pettovello denting Milei's approval ratings

    Pettovello was likened to former First Lady Fabiola Yáñez, who did little good to then-President Alberto Fernández's image

    A study by the consulting firm Zuban Córdoba showed that Argentine President Javier Milei's approval ratings were falling below those of other officials of his administration such as Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Vice President Victoria Villarruel. These results were said to be driven by scandals involving the President's protegé, Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello.

  • Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

    Falklands, Liberation Day, Normandy heroes and awards in the King's Birthday Honors List

    Laying wreaths at the Liberation Monument next to MLA Pete Biggs

    June is a most poignant month for the Falkland Islands since on the 14th, the community commemorates the Liberation of the Islands in 1982 after 74 days of occupation by Argentine forces.

  • Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 09:55 UTC

    Bullrich apologizes for remarks regarding Hezbollah's alleged presence in Chile

    Bullrich told Tohá over the telephone that her comments had been made when analyzing the regional scenario and with no animosity toward Chile

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font declared the diplomatic incident over after Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich apologized for saying that the terrorist organization Hezbollah was operating in the Chilean port of Iquique. “It seems to me that it is tremendously important that the authorities be responsible in their statements and affirmations,” said Boric.

  • Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 09:32 UTC

    Brazil joins Strasbourg Convention regarding convicted people

    The legal mechanism gives foreigners who have committed crimes in other jurisdictions the possibility of serving their sentence in their countries of origin

    Brazil has joined the Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Convicted Persons applying to any requests involving countries that have ratified the treaty. The agreement seeks to facilitate the social reintegration of the convicted person, giving foreigners who have committed crimes in other jurisdictions the possibility of serving their sentence in their countries of origin, Brazil's Justice Ministry explained.