MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2026, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[Leo XIV begins his tour in Uruguay, praising Mercosur and peace and questioning abortion and euthanasia]]> Photo: AFP Pope Leo XIV arrived in Montevideo on Friday, the first stop on his South American tour, and in a speech to Uruguayan authorities praised Mercosur, peaceful coexistence and care for the environment, but also defended life “even that which is still growing in the mother’s womb” and questioned euthanasia, in a country where both are legal and which is considered the most secular in the region.

]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2026 02:30:00 GMT <![CDATA[Peña says he will face his impeachment trial as Argentina denies he has entered the country]]> “We have no record of him being in Argentina.” Javier Milei’s government, a political ally of Peña, has not commented on the Paraguayan crisis. Paraguayan President Santiago Peña announced on Thursday night that he will appear before the Senate to defend himself in the impeachment trial against him, after Congress failed for lack of a quorum to consider the resignation he had tendered hours earlier, leaving him formally in office. Argentina’s government, meanwhile, denied any record of Peña entering Argentina, following reports that he might have left Paraguay.

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:56:00 GMT <![CDATA[Ibero-American foreign ministers unanimously back Argentina’s Falklands claim]]> “The Ibero-American community reaffirms, once again, its support for the Argentine Republic,” said Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno Ibero-American foreign ministers meeting in Madrid unanimously approved a special communiqué backing Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands and calling on Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume negotiations, on the eve of the Hamburg hearing on the Sea Lion oil project.

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:21:00 GMT <![CDATA[Milei skips the opening of the Ibero-American Summit and meets Abascal in Madrid]]> It is Milei’s second visit to Madrid in two weeks. On October 21, at a breakfast event, he called Sánchez an “unpresentable dictator” and “corrupt”, and did not meet Abascal on that occasion Argentine President Javier Milei did not attend the opening of the 30th Ibero-American Summit in Madrid on Wednesday or the dinner hosted by the King and Queen of Spain for the delegations, and that evening met Santiago Abascal, leader of the Vox party, in the middle of the campaign for Spain’s November 29 general election.

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:49:00 GMT <![CDATA[Cristina Kirchner meets Lula’s digital strategist in a bid to replicate his comeback in Argentina]]> Kirchner, who is serving a final six-year sentence for corruption under house arrest and is barred for life from public office Former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner on Monday received Brazilian lawmaker André Janones, creator of the WhatsApp channel that helped Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva win re-election, in Buenos Aires, as the Peronist opposition looks to Brazil for keys to defeating Javier Milei in the 2027 presidential election.

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:16:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Pope arrives in an Argentina where bishops are among Milei’s firmest critics]]> Leo XIV has placed social justice at the heart of his pontificate, while Milei has called it “an aberration” Pope Leo XIV will arrive in Buenos Aires on Sunday on a visit that Javier Milei’s government presents as strictly pastoral, but which takes place amid tension with Argentina’s Catholic hierarchy, one of the most critical voices against the president’s austerity policies. The pontiff will begin a tour in Uruguay on Friday that will continue in Argentina from November 8 to 11 and end in Peru.

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:29:00 GMT <![CDATA[An Oxford professor to sit as the UK's chosen judge in the Falklands dispute in Hamburg]]> British jurist Vaughan Lowe, emeritus professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, will be the judge ad hoc chosen by the United Kingdom in the case between Argentina and London before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea over hydrocarbon exploitation north of the Falklands. Lowe will make his solemn declaration on Monday, November 9, the day before the hearing.

]]> Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:23:00 GMT <![CDATA[Argentina’s Sea Lion case could founder on Falklands sovereignty, a legal expert warns]]> The expert believes Argentina will pursue every legal, diplomatic and political avenue to block the project, and suggests that Milei may also be seeking to stir national pride ahead of the elections Argentina’s case against the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands “could fall at the first hurdle”: the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which cannot settle territorial sovereignty disputes, according to Australian law of the sea expert Donald R. Rothwell. The tribunal will hold hearings on Argentina’s request on November 10 and 11 in Hamburg.

]]> Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:57:00 GMT <![CDATA[Argentine intellectuals reject the Falklands “national cause” amid escalating tensions with London]]> The dissenting voices come at a time of maximum tension Nearly a hundred Argentine intellectuals, jurists, historians and politicians have signed a declaration rejecting the transformation of the Falklands dispute into a “national cause” that “admits no dissent”, and criticising Javier Milei’s government for acting with “flagrant opportunism” amid escalating tensions with the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project.

]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:48:00 GMT <![CDATA[From Montevideo to Luján: Leo XIV’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina]]> “It fills me with joy to return to the continent where I have lived so many moments of my life,” wrote the pontiff, who was born in Chicago and spent almost two decades as a missionary in Peru Pope Leo XIV will begin a tour of South America in Montevideo on November 6 that will take him to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, with open-air Masses, meetings with Presidents Yamandú Orsi and Javier Milei, and events with young people, workers and prisoners. His stop in Argentina, from November 8 to 11, will be the first papal visit to the country since John Paul II’s in April 1987.

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