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Montevideo, April 16th 2024 - 08:05 UTC

Tag: Donald Trump

  • Friday, November 18th 2016 - 09:15 UTC

    Yellen intends to remain her four-year term; anticipates rate increase “relatively soon”

    “I was confirmed by the Senate to a four-year term, which ends at the end of January of 2018, and it is fully my intention to serve out that term.”

    The United States Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress on Thursday that she is not stepping down. Her statement follows on strong attacks during the campaign from president elect Donald Trump who claimed the Fed was favoring president Barack Obama and candidate Hillary Clinton with its low interest rate policy.

  • Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:27 UTC

    Trump-nomics: Speculation iPhones could soon be manufactured in the US

    “Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S.,” a source told Nikkei.

    iPhones might soon be made in the U.S., a result of Donald Trump’s win on Election Day, according to Nikkei Asian Review report. Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, a main Apple assembler, has allegedly been looking into the possibility of making iPhones in the United States, sources revealed to Nikkei.

  • Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:54 UTC

    Soros believed to be behind counter-revolutions where the other party wins elections

    Millionaire George Soros known to many for his support of counter-revolutions where he dislikes the democratic outcome of an election.

    Anti-Trump protests so strong and well coordinated make spontaneity unlikely to the reasoning observer who makes out that ”someone is stirring the pot because America has never traditionally had a problem with accepting the outcome of an election,” as one analyst put it.

  • Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:06 UTC

    Trump receives Japan's Abe in New York expecting to reassure Asian allies

    “Prime Minister Abe and Mr. Trump will have good chemistry,” said Takashi Kawakami, a professor at Tokyo's Takushoku University.

    Donald Trump is expected to use his first meeting with a foreign leader as U.S. president-elect this week to try to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Asian allies rattled by his campaign rhetoric, advisers to Trump said. Abe, a political blue blood and veteran lawmaker, and Trump, a brash outsider with no diplomatic or government experience, have differences on policy issues such as free trade.

  • Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:25 UTC

    Macri, Trump bound for closest relationship ever after phone call

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri used to play golf with Donald Trump

    Argentine President Mauricio Macri spoke with US President-elect Donald Trump, who invited him to visit him in Washington next year. “Argentina is a great country, and we will have the closest relationship between our countries in history,” Trump reportedly said.

  • Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:02 UTC

    Trump promises Argentina, a great country, “the closest relation in history”

    “Argentina is a great country and we will have the closest relation between our countries in history”, Trump was quoted, according to the Casa Rosada release.

    “Argentina is a great country” and Argentina and the US will have “the closest relation in history”, according to the official version from the administration of president Mauricio Macri who on Monday was on the phone with president elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on his presidential victory.

  • Monday, November 14th 2016 - 08:54 UTC

    Lousteau to leave Washington before Trump's inauguration

    Argentine ambassador to Washington Martín Lousteau needs to leave his job before Donald Trump's inauguration

    The move is seen as a token of exchange following the Argentine government's open decision to support Hillary Clinton. Martín Losteau, who was also economy minister under Cristina Fernandez, ran for Mayor of Buenos Aires last year and lost to the Macrist candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, wants to race again in 2019.

  • Monday, November 14th 2016 - 07:31 UTC

    Argentina looks forward to a good relation with president Trump, who is no longer “candidate Trump”

    “We have an excellent relation with the government of Obama and will have a good relation with the administration of Mr. Trump”, anticipated Peña

    Argentina has an excellent relation with the Obama administration and this will be the case with a government led by Trump, pointed out Argentina's cabinet secretary Marcos Peña adding that the first signals from the elected president are positive since he is moderating his electoral campaign speech.

  • Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 21:19 UTC

    US Secretary of State Kerry approaches climate change in Antarctica

    As Trump has different views on environmentalism, Secretary of State Kerry takes on the issue in Antarctica

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Antarctica Friday, in preparation for an international climate-change conference to be held in Marrakesh next week, at a time the world foresees different environmental policies under Trump.

  • Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 11:44 UTC

    Where the Democrats go from here

    It is no shock to me that millions of people who voted for Mr. Trump did so because they are sick and tired of the economic, political and media status quo.

    By Bernie Sanders (*) - Millions of Americans registered a protest vote on Tuesday, expressing their fierce opposition to an economic and political system that puts wealthy and corporate interests over their own. I strongly supported Hillary Clinton, campaigned hard on her behalf, and believed she was the right choice on Election Day. But Donald J. Trump won the White House because his campaign rhetoric successfully tapped into a very real and justified anger, an anger that many traditional Democrats feel.