Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil's presidential runoff with 51.78% of valid votes against 48.22% for Flávio Bolsonaro, according to the Superior Electoral Court, with 99.97% of the vote counted. Lula, 80, will govern the country for a fourth time. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/26…

The port of Montevideo welcomed seven polar expedition ships this week at the start of the Antarctic season, reinforcing the Uruguayan capital’s role as a staging point for cruise ships heading to the frozen continent. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/25…

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has reminded residents who have not yet completed their 2026 Census to do so as soon as possible. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/25…

Nearly 160 million Brazilians are called to vote on Sunday in the presidential runoff, in which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, seeks a fourth term against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/25…

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau acknowledged that Washington is closely watching the impact that Argentina’s National Sovereignty Defence bill, which toughens sanctions against those involved in hydrocarbon exploitation in the Falklands. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/23…

Argentine President Javier Milei said in Madrid on Wednesday that he is confident of recovering the Falklands through diplomacy and repeated three times that his government “does not believe in military solutions.” en.mercopress.com/2026/10/22…

Argentina’s government spent some US$445 million on weapons, military and security equipment from when Javier Milei took office in December 2023 to August 2026, according to an analysis. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/19…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked his rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, whether he intends to apply Argentine President Javier Milei’s “chainsaw” to cut 250 billion reais in public spending. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/19…

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights held this week in San José, Costa Rica, the first public hearing in the case over the killings of April 11, 2002 in Caracas, when an opposition march came under gunfire near the Miraflores Palace. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/16…

The British government says Buenos Aires’s conduct raises “very serious questions about its reliability as a partner”. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/16…

Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi signed an agreement with Spanish company Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente to develop a data centre campus, a US$5.7 billion investment the government described as the largest in the country’s history. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/16…

Argentina abstained on Thursday in a vote by the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee on a Russian-sponsored draft on “contemporary forms of colonialism”, a decision that Buenos Aires province’s government minister, opposition figure Carlos Bianco. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/16…

Brazil’s Senate approved, by 75 votes to one, a cut in the maximum working week from 44 to 40 hours with no reduction in pay, ending the so-called 6x1 schedule of six working days and one day off and extending to two the days off for formal-sector workers. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/15…

The National Sovereignty Defence bill, with which Javier Milei’s government seeks to toughen sanctions against those involved in exploiting resources in the Falklands, failed to secure committee approval in the Chamber of Deputies. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/15…

The US Treasury Department on Wednesday removed from its sanctions list Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and brother of acting president Delcy Rodríguez. The Treasury did not explain the reasons for the decision. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/14…

Britain has been left without its Ice Patrol after HMS Protector on Tuesday suffered engine problems and had to be towed back to Plymouth. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/14…

Reform UK leader c has said that, if he were prime minister, he would offer US President Donald Trump the use in perpetuity of the Diego Garcia military base, in the Chagos archipelago, in exchange for him to stop talking about the Falklands. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/14…

Argentina has requested Interpol red notices against individuals linked to the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, and the United Kingdom has asked the organisation to reject them as “politically motivated.” en.mercopress.com/2026/10/14…

Argentina has asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order the UK to prevent the development of the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands and to refrain from granting new permits to exploit the resources. en.mercopress.com/2026/10/13…

British Overseas Territories Minister Uma Kumaran on Tuesday accused Argentine President Javier Milei of a “brazen attempt to use the people of the Falkland Islands as some sort of political prop ahead of Argentina’s elections next year” en.mercopress.com/2026/10/13…