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Montevideo, May 19th 2024 - 18:16 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, April 29th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Mondino seeking to soothe ties with China after Milei's campaign announcements

    Mondino is aware that Argentina needs the currency swap with China extended despite Milei's tantrums

    Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino is on a crusade in China to discuss bilateral issues with an economic giant with whom President Javier Milei had pledged during his campaign that he wanted no ties. “Not only will I not do business with China, I will not do business with any communist,” Milei announced repeatedly on his way to Casa Rosada.

  • Monday, April 29th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Unauthorized US Coast Guard ship sparks controversy in Montevideo

    Uruguay's opposition parties underlined the ruling Multicolor coalition's alleged disregard for the Constitution

    The US Coast Guard cutter James docked in the port of Montevideo Friday sparking a controversy among local politicians because the executive had forgotten to require the congressional acquiescence needed for the presence of any foreign-flagged military unit in the country.

  • Monday, April 29th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    Referendum regarding social security to go ahead in Uruguay

    “The cause is just, ethical, necessary, and loaded with future,” Abdala said

    Uruguay's labor union Pit-Cnt has garnered the number of signatures required by law; therefore, the social security reform will be subject to a referendum on Oct. 27, simultaneously with the election of a new president. The grouping appeared before Parliament on Saturday with 430,023 signatures to support its request.

  • Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 13:37 UTC

    Chile in mourning after murder of 3 Carabineros officers

    Boric decreed three days of national mourning and pledged to capture those responsible

    Three non-commissioned officers of Chile's Carabineros Police were killed early Saturday in an ambush in the town of Cañete, near the city of Concepción, in the Bío Bío region some 500 kilometers south of Santiago. The crime, which is still under investigation, shocked the entire country. President Gabriel Boric Font promised it would not go unpunished and other officials even called for the reinstatement of the death penalty.

  • Sunday, April 28th 2024 - 12:36 UTC

    Milei needs to change the course of his government, warns CFK

    ”What's the use of 60% of the votes if people then go hungry and do not make ends meet? CFK wondered

    Former two-time Argentine head of State Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) made a rentrée under the limelight Saturday at the opening of the President Néstor Kirchner Stadium in Quilmes, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in her first public appearance since completing her first term as vice president on Dec. 9 last year. She seized the opportunity to criticize the Libertarian administration of Javier Milei for the unnecessary hardships imposed on the people.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Military presence “at the appropriate level to ensure the defense of the Falklands,” UK MoD

    British forces stationed at MPC include an infantry company, an air defense battery, four Typhoon fighter jets, and a patrol vessel from the Royal Navy.

    Following Argentina's purchase of US-made F-16 jets from Denmark, concerns were raised in Parliament to a Secretary of Defense regarding the UK's defense readiness in the South Atlantic, more precisely the Falkland Islands.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Peru's PM calls for an end to the “political noise” that earned the country bad reviews

    Peruvian politicians are “shooting themselves in the foot,” Adrianzén warned

    Peru's Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén urged his countrymen to hush down the “political noise” that erupted following the decision by the credit rating agency Standard 6 Poor (S&P) to downgrade the South American country from BBB to BBB-.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Repair ship RFA Diligence, involved in Falklands and Gulf wars, sold to Turkey

    RFA Diligence was previously chartered by the British government to support naval activities during the Falklands conflict in 1982.

    The Portsmouth media has reported that RFA Diligence, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship previously involved in the Falklands and Gulf conflicts, has arrived in Turkey after being sold for recycling by the UK Defense Equipment Sales Authority (DESA).

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    RFA Cardigan Bay in crucial support task to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza civilians

    “The crew of RFA Cardigan Bay are central to the UK's contribution to the multinational plan to greatly expand the flow of aid into Gaza”

    UK Forces.net has reported that a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel will provide accommodation to hundreds of American soldiers and sailors in the eastern Mediterranean who are helping to deliver aid to Gaza. The US military has started the construction of a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the delivery of vital humanitarian aid.

  • Saturday, April 27th 2024 - 09:54 UTC

    Brazil opens insulin-producing plant

    Lula recalled that his 7-year-old great-granddaughter had diabetes and would need the medication

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday participated in the city of Nova Lima, state of Minas Gerais, in the opening of the Biomm recombinant human insulin-producing plant. The Government will purchase the entire output to make it available free of charge nationwide for diabetes patients. The facility is said to have cost around R$ 800 million (US$ 156 million) through loans from public banks. The South American country currently imports 95% of the insulin it uses. Some 15.7 million adults are said to have the malady nationwide.