The Southern Star (Montevideo)

The Southern Star, also known in Spanish as La Estrella del Sur (both English and Spanish names were used in conjunction) was a weekly bilingual British propaganda[1] newspaper edited in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1807.

The chief editor was, according to most authors, General John Whitelocke's aide Thomas Bradford.

The translator was Manuel Aniceto Padilla, a journalist from Upper Peru and sibling-in-law of future female guerrilla leader of the Independence War, Juana Azurduy.

The lawyer Mariano Moreno was requested to write editorials countering the opinions held by the newspaper.

[4] The newspaper was closed after the defeat and withdrawal of the British troops, and the printing machines were confiscated and sent to Buenos Aires, where the local government donated them to funding the Casa de Niños Expósitos, then the main public orphanage in the city and today's Hospital Pedro de Elizalde.