El presidente de Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, suscribió las dos declaraciones de principios de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP), Chapultepec y Salta II, durante un acto oficial en la Torre Ejecutiva, sede del gobierno uruguayo. Orsi estuvo acompañado por una delegación internacional de la organización que visitó esta semana la ciudad para analizar aspectos relacionados con el ejercicio del periodismo en el país.

En representación de la entidad que agrupa a más de 1.300 medios en todo el continente, habló en primer término su primer vicepresidente, Carlos Jornet, director de La Voz del Interior (Córdoba, Argentina).

Tras reconocer que Uruguay fue uno de los primeros países del continente en adherir a la Declaración de Chapultepec en 1994 y que Orsi es el primer mandatario de su país y de todo el Cono Sur que suscribe la Declaración de Salta II, Jornet expresó en nombre de la SIP: “Este gesto suyo representa, además, una demostración cabal del clima de convivencia que caracteriza a Uruguay. Un país donde existen discrepancias ideológicas, por cierto, pero que no impiden el diálogo y la búsqueda de consensos esenciales”.

Jornet añadió que, pese a que en los últimos años hubo señales de incipiente deterioro, Uruguay “sigue siendo un país calificado como de baja restricción a las libertades de expresión y de prensa”.

Y agregó: “Aspiramos a que este gesto que lo honra, presidente Orsi, sea una marca permanente de su gestión, constituya además una señal para quienes administran el Estado en todos los niveles, y que Uruguay continúe siendo un territorio donde se acepta y se valora el disenso, pero se trabaja para buscar consensos; donde no se acallan las diferencias, pero se procuran coincidencias sobre la base de diálogos fructíferos”.

El vicepresidente primero de la SIP exhortó además a que “valoren el respeto, sigan defendiéndolo como sello de identidad nacional, y mantengan lejos la ola global que recurre a agravios, a descalificaciones personales, a la diseminación de desinformación como herramientas de contienda política”.

A su turno, luego de suscribir las declaraciones, Orsi destacó que “como presidente de Uruguay es un gran honor y una responsabilidad enorme añadir estas firmas” a las declaraciones impulsadas por la SIP.

“Créanme que no lo hacemos como un saludo a la bandera: lo hacemos porque el Uruguay como tal, su sociedad, sus medios de comunicación, sus periodistas y sus representantes políticos creemos y defendemos con firmeza el derecho a la libertad de expresión y a la libertad de prensa”.

El mandatario agregó que “lo entendemos como una garantía indiscutible para la existencia misma de una sociedad democrática”. Orsi indicó que “los países no se refundan cada cinco años. Como países somos más robustos y confiables cuando apostamos a la acumulación positiva en todos sus órdenes”.

Sostuvo que, en 2025, al celebrar los 40 años de retorno a la democracia, “todos los presidentes coincidimos en resaltar que nos une el respeto a las libertades fundamentales y que el debate público no debe transformarse en un espacio para difundir ataques personales, falsedades deliberadas o desacreditar a quienes piensan distinto a uno”.

Previo a la firma de las declaraciones, el presidente Orsi, el canciller Mario Lubetkin y la delegación de la SIP mantuvieron un encuentro para analizar la situación de libertad de prensa en Uruguay y en las Americas.

Además de Jornet, integraron la misión de la SIP el expresidente y actual vicepresidente segundo, Michael Greenspon (The New York Times, Estados Unidos); la presidenta de Comité Ejecutivo, Gabriela Vivanco (La Hora, Ecuador); el copresidente de la Comisión Legal, Martín Etchevers (Clarín, Argentina); el integrante del Consejo Consultivo y expresidente Danilo Arbilla, y el director ejecutivo, Carlos Lauría.

Durante su estadía, la delegación también sostuvo reuniones con la fiscal de Corte, Mónica Ferrero, así como con periodistas y directivos de medios.

La Declaración de Chapultepec, adoptada en 1994, impulsa las libertades públicas e individuales como “motor y punto de partida de los derechos básicos del ser humano”. Ha sido firmada por numerosos presidentes y líderes de las Américas desde su enunciación. La Declaración de Salta II sobre Principios de Libertad de Expresión en la Era Digital, actualizada en 2024, inspira la promoción de las libertades públicas e individuales en el contexto de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación.

U.K. Defense Minister John Healey warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of «serious consequences» Thursday after revealing a weeks-long military operation to deter Russian meddling in the North Sea.

«To President Putin I say we see you, we see your activity over our cables and our pipelines, and you should know that any attempt to damage them will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences,» he cautioned. 

The defense minister detailed an operation involving a Royal Navy frigate, a Royal Air Force patrol plane and hundreds of personnel deployed to deter a trio of Russian submarines that were detected near underwater cables in Britain’s economic exclusionary zone.

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One of the submarines, Healey announced, was a nuclear-powered Akula-class submarine, while the other two were spy submarines from Russia’s Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research, also known as GUGI. Subs from this unit were directed specifically by Putin «to conduct hybrid warfare activities against the UK» and its allies, Healey said.

At least one of those allies, Norway, was involved in the deterrent operation, Healey revealed. Norway’s Defense Minister Tore O Sandvik confirmed the cooperation in a Thursday statement. 

«Norway has participated in a coordinated military operation with our allies to send a clear message: covert activities in our waters will not be tolerated,» Sandvik wrote.

The submarines left U.K. waters after a protracted period of monitoring from the U.K. and Norway, and there is no evidence of damage to any underwater infrastructure, Healey said. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the U.K.’s Defense Department for more information. 

The Russian incursion marked the second time in less than six months that the U.K. detected Russian seacraft near its territorial waters. Healey announced a similar military operation in November after Russia deployed the spy ship Yantar to the North Sea in 2025.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting to discuss the situation in Dagestan hit by severe flood via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Healey also cited this year’s incident as an example of why the U.K. hasn’t sent troops to the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway in the Persian Gulf key to global energy markets that Iran has choked off in recent weeks.

«I understand people questioning why all UK military assets and personnel have not been deployed to deal with it. But that is not in Britain’s national interest,» he said, later calling Russia «the primary threat to the UK and to NATO.» 

President Donald Trump has criticized NATO allies and the organization itself for not acceding to requests to help open the Strait of Hormuz. 

«NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,» he wrote in a Thursday morning Truth Social post.

Russian personnel walk on the gangway to Russian Navy submarine RFS Petropavlosvsk-Kamchatskiy, which is currently on a port visit at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 31, 2026 (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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The U.K., while holding a planning meeting on how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the Iran War is over, initially refused to let the U.S. use a British air base to launch military strikes against Iran. 

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer eventually allowed the U.S. to launch «defensive strikes» from Royal Air Force bases after Trump slammed him as «not Winston Churchill.»

Another Senate Democrat has called on President Donald Trump to be removed from office over the Iran war.

«I certainly think the president should be removed,» Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said. «I mean, he’s unfit for office. I think, the 25th Amendment, and if not, then impeachment.»

Congressional Democrats, particularly in the House, recently have escalated their position against Trump’s war in Iran, shifting from pushing for Congress to reassert its authority in declaring war to demanding that the president be ousted from office.

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Trump’s comments in the past few days, particularly his threat against Iran that a «whole civilization will die» unless the Strait of Hormuz was reopened, sparked the latest growing push to see him removed from office.

While there is growing sentiment among House Democrats to jettison Trump from office, it’s not as widespread in the Senate. Still, Kim on Thursday joined a small group of Senate Democrats echoing the desires of their counterparts in the House.

So far, Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., all either have demanded that Trump be impeached or removed through the 25th Amendment.

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Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., wants President Donald Trump removed from office either through impeachment or the 25th amendment over his comments and actions in Iran. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has stopped short of calling for impeachment, but instead is teeing up another war powers resolution — the fourth since the war began in February — to rein in Trump’s war authorities in the region as a fragile two-week ceasefire continues.

But their calls for removal likely aren’t going to go anywhere now, given the political reality in Washington, D.C. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, meaning impeachment is all but a moot point.

And invoking the 25th Amendment, which has never been used to remove a sitting president, is even more unlikely, given that it would require Vice President JD Vance, a majority of Trump’s Cabinet, and then a two-thirds majority vote in Congress to remove him.

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Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., railed against Senate Democrats, and accused them of trying to rip apart DHS. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu)

It’s also a desire that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., contended was «not realistic right now, given his oddball Cabinet of sycophants and eccentrics,» earlier this week.

«We’re going to have to buckle down and win this the old-fashioned way,» Whitehouse said.

Democrats’ position does provide foreshadowing for what could happen if they win big in the midterm elections this fall, however.

Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are still backing Trump’s actions in Iran, despite some straying from the party line over his recent apocalyptic comments.

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Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said that «Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years, and it’s time for Iran to choose peace.»

«They haven’t done it yet,» Barrasso said. «What we have seen is American peace through strength, and with this operation that is going on now, incredible success by the United States. We have done what we have talked about doing. Eliminate their missiles and eliminate their missile production and eliminate their missile firing capacity, undermine their ability to ever get a nuclear weapon, and sink the navy.»

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