Mercosur

• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 15:29 UTC

  Milei calls Lula a “leftist thief” and says he hopes he will not “steal” Brazil’s election

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei attacked his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva again on Tuesday, accusing him of a “dirty campaign” and saying he hoped Lula would not try to “steal” Sunday’s presidential runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, whom Milei has publicly backed.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 14:52 UTC

  Lubetkin warns Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”

  

  Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has warned Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”, in response to his criticism of the bloc during the campaign for the October 25 runoff. In the same interview, with the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, he said Uruguay would not restore diplomatic relations with Venezuela while Delcy Rodríguez governs.

• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

  Iguazú Falls closed as the river’s flow tops 12,000 cubic metres per second

  

  Iguazú National Park, in Argentina’s Misiones province, closed access to the falls’ walkways on Monday because of an exceptional rise in the Iguazú River, whose flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second. The flood is part of an episode of heavy rainfall linked to El Niño that has also caused the Uruguay River to burst its banks, with evacuations on both sides.

• Sunday, October 4th 2026 - 08:57 UTC

  Trump declines to back Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro as Brazil votes

  

  US President Donald Trump has not endorsed either of the two leading candidates in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, unlike in recent elections in Honduras, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Costa Rica.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:30 UTC

  Latin American airports will need US$178 billion to nearly double their traffic

  

  Airports in Latin America and the Caribbean will require investment of around US$178 billion over the next thirty years to handle demand that would rise from 809 million passengers this year to around 1.5 billion in 2045, according to projections presented in Lima at the annual assembly of Airports Council International.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC

  “The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.

• Monday, September 7th 2026 - 19:20 UTC

  A port dispute in Montevideo blocks a second ferry operator on the Buenos Aires route

  

  Uruguayan ferry company Colonia Express obtained authorisation from the Ministry of Transport and Public Works at the end of July to operate the passenger and vehicle route between Montevideo and Buenos Aires, but cannot begin the service because the only ramp at the Montevideo port suitable for unloading cars belongs to Buquebus, the company that currently runs the crossing alone.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2026 - 10:32 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina seek to stop the green hydrogen plant repeating the pulp mill conflict

  

  The governments of Uruguay and Argentina are trying to contain tensions surrounding the green hydrogen and synthetic fuels plant that HIF Global plans to build in the Uruguayan department of Paysandú, on the Uruguay river, after a statement by President Yamandú Orsi drew three consecutive denials from the Argentine side.

• Friday, August 28th 2026 - 19:35 UTC

  The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay

  

  US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 temporarily waiving tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings, a measure that excludes countries already holding their own quotas in the US market, among them Argentina and Uruguay. The main beneficiaries will be Brazil and Paraguay.

• Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers travel to Brasília to repair relations with Brazil

  

  A delegation of Argentine deputies and senators from opposition parties will travel to Brasília next Wednesday with the aim of repairing bilateral relations, strained since President Javier Milei referred to his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in offensive terms. The group is due to meet the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, the foreign ministry and representatives of the presidency.