Mercosur

• Wednesday, February 14th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

  Paraguayan President due in Buenos Aires for meeting with Milei

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is making a snap trip to Buenos Aires on Wednesday to meet with his Argentine colleague Javier Milei, who has just returned from Italy. It will be their second encounter after Milei's Dec. 10 inauguration.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

  Paraguayan Navy officer shot while touring Montevideo

  

  Paraguayan Navy Captain Marcial Martínez Gayoso who is stationed in Montevideo on a Mercosur mission was shot Tuesday at the Fortaleza del Cerro historical site while visiting it with his family.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 11:42 UTC

  Surplus from electricity exports benefits Brazilian customers

  

  Brazil totaled a surplus of R$ 888 million (US$ 179.26 million) from electricity sales to neighboring countries, which helped President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration ease the burden on Brazilian consumers, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, February 12th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

  Lacalle Pou insists Venezuela a dictatorship with no free elections

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said Sunday from Melo, the capital f of the department (province) of Cerro Largo that the current government of Venezuela was “a dictatorship.”

• Tuesday, February 6th 2024 - 19:43 UTC

  Sebastián Piñera, former president of Chile, dies in helicopter crash at age 74

  

  Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera tragically passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74 in a helicopter crash in Lago Ranco, Chile. According to Chilean media reports, including ADN Radio, the accident occurred approximately 920 kilometers south of Santiago.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2024 - 10:47 UTC

  Heat wave grips Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil

  

  Media reports all across the Southern Cone Friday underlined the heat wave affecting Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay with temperatures reaching 48 degrees Celsius and forecast to remain around or above 40 degrees for several days.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2024 - 10:34 UTC

  Paraná River: Traffic restored after ship is freed from bridge pillar

  

  The Liberian-flagged freighter En May was removed on Friday from one of the pillars of the Zárate-Brazo Largo bridge that connects the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos, where she got stuck after losing her steering capabilities last Sunday. Full navigation was thus restored on the Paraná River waterway.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2024 - 00:17 UTC

  Uruguayan surgeon dies meters away from Buenos Aires before completing River Plate swim

  

  In a daring attempt to swim across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, to Argentina, experienced Uruguayan swimmer and surgeon Gonzalo Leal tragically lost his life. Leal, from the Uruguayan department of Salto, suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after reaching the shore of Buenos Aires, according to El País.

• Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Lacalle praises Milei for acquiescing to further dredging of River Plate

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday praised his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei's willingness to cooperate in further dredging the River Plate at the Port of Montevideo from 13 to 14 meters. The previous administrations of Argentine Presidents Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández (2015-2023) considered that these works would leave the port of Buenos Aires in a disadvantageous position. Negotiations in this regard started in 2013 under Presidents Tabaré Vázquez and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

• Wednesday, January 31st 2024 - 15:21 UTC

  A company has started the process to become the new Uruguayan flag airline

  

  Sociedad Uruguaya de Aviación (SUA), a privately owned company, has begun the process of becoming Uruguay's new flag carrier. The endeavor is led by Antonio Rama, a Uruguayan commander who has been based in Doha for a decade.