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Montevideo, January 12th 2025 - 18:40 UTC

Stories for 2023

  • Monday, April 17th 2023 - 09:11 UTC

    Petro lands in NY for busy week leading up to Summit with Biden

    Petro has a busy agenda before Thursday's meeting at the White House

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday landed in New York for a series of engagements leading to a bilateral summit with his United States colleague Joseph Biden at the White House on April 20.

  • Monday, April 17th 2023 - 09:04 UTC

    Russian FM kicks off Latin American tour in Brazil

    Lavrov praised the region's not taking sides in the Ukrainian conflict

    Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is off on a Latin American tour during which he will visit Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba between April 17 and 21 to strengthen bilateral cooperation in political, economic, commercial, educational, and humanitarian matters, according to Moscow.

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 23:28 UTC

    Argentine Cabinet Chief admits war against inflation is being lost

    If the opposition wins this year's elections it would mean more inflation and poverty, Rossi said

    Argentina's Cabinet Chief Agustín Rossi admitted the administration of President Alberto Fernández was losing the battle with inflation. “We thought we were getting there, but we weren't,” Rossi was quoted as saying by local media. “Nobody can be happy, least of all us”, he added.

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 13:01 UTC

    Lower-income groups less affected by Brazil's inflation

    Higher-income households were impacted to a lesser extent in the transportation category because of the 5.3% drop in airline tickets

    Inflation in Brazil decelerated for all income brackets in the month of March, according to a report from the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) released Friday, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 12:49 UTC

    Nuclear energy era comes to an end in Germany

    “The risks linked to nuclear power are definitely not manageable even in a high-tech country like Germany,” Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said

    The era of nuclear reactors came to an end in Germany Saturday after the three last such plants were shut down as the country enters a new energy chapter, facing the challenge of doing without fossil fuels while at the same time managing the gas crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine.

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 12:15 UTC

    Dutch gov't to extend euthanasia option to children aged 1 to 12

    “This is a very complex subject that deals with harrowing situations that you would not wish on anyone,” Kuipers said

    Dutch Health Minister Ernst Kuipers Friday announced that regulations were being drafted so that euthanasia can be applied to that small group of children aged 1 to 12 “for whom palliative care options are not sufficient to alleviate their suffering” and who has “such a serious illness or disorder that death is inevitable.”

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 11:45 UTC

    Chikungunya kills 90 people in Paraguay so far this year

    Sequera also explained that chikungunya was on the rise in the provinces but decreasing in Asuncion and in the Central department

    Paraguayan health authorities last week confirmed at least 90 deaths this year had been caused by chikungunya fever, while Uruguay detected its first imported case of the malady. One more case was also confirmed in the last days of 2022, according to the latest report from Paraguay's Health Ministry released on Friday.

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 11:42 UTC

    Ecuador prison violence: 12 inmates killed in gunfight

    “We are in the worst moment of the violence crisis in the country,” Zapata said

    A new episode of violence has left at least another 12 inmates dead after gunfights at the Guayaquil El Litoral jailhouse, it was reported Saturday. It was the second massacre within the same week at that infamous prison involving rival gangs clashing over drug trafficking territorial control.

  • Saturday, April 15th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Argentina: Inflation in March reaches 7.7%

    The average inflation was 7.7% but lettuce went up 58.5%

    Inflation for the month of March was reported to have reached 7.7% for a 104.3% interannual and 21.7% in the first quarter of 2023, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said Friday. In February, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 6.6%.

  • Saturday, April 15th 2023 - 09:09 UTC

    China to open new opportunities for Brazil, Xi tells Lula

    “We count on China in our fight to preserve planet Earth,” Lula said about his environmental goals

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva was offered a grand welcome by his Chinese colleague Xi Jinping as both leaders set out the guidelines for a partnership that will undoubtedly play a role in world events. China “will open new opportunities for Brazil,” Xi said.