Stories for 2024

Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 10:41 UTC
Football: 2030 World Cup opening game to be played in Montevideo

World football's governing body FIFA confirmed Wednesday that the opening game of the 2030 World Cup will be played at Montevideo's Centenario Stadium, which also hosted the 1930 edition that launched the series of one of the most successful events in contemporary history.
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Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 10:30 UTC
Uruguay census reveals rising single-person households and declining rural population

The National Statistics Institute (INE) of Uruguay has published the final data from the 2023 national census, highlighting key demographic shifts in the country. Uruguay’s population has grown slightly, reaching 3,499,451 people, up from 3,412,636 in 2011.
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Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 09:34 UTC
CFK becomes Justicialist Party Chairwoman

Former Argentine President (2007-2015) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) Wednesday became chairwoman of the Justicialist (Peronist) Party. In her speech, she called for the formation of political and technical cadres to be part of a national project for the great majorities.
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Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 09:23 UTC
Argentina's Indec says inflation in November stood at 2.4%

Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 2.4% in November for a 166% year-on-year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) announced Wednesday in Buenos Aires. It was the lowest figure since July 2020 when it reached 1.9%. The Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei welcomed the news: “Inflation in Argentina RIP,” said Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni.
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Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 08:54 UTC
Peña announces reopening of Paraguay's Embassy in Jerusalem

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Wednesday told Israel's Parliament (known as the Knesset) in Tel Aviv that his government's decision to relocate the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem meant that the South American country “will not abandon Israel.” Peña plans to reopen the building on Thursday.
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Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 08:28 UTC
Lula needs additional surgery for head bleeding

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva needs to go through an additional head surgical procedure on Thursday to prevent further blooding. He had been operated on earlier this week to relieve persistent headaches due to an intracranial hematoma following a domestic accident that prevented him from traveling to the BRICS Summit.
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Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 08:13 UTC
Brazil hits new record in coffee exports

South America's largest country exported an all-time high amount of 46.3 million bags of coffee last month, Agencia Brasil reported citing data from the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (Cecafé) made available this week.
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Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
Milei reviews his first year in office

Argentine President Javier Milei reviewed his first year in office, during which he did manage to slow down inflation, albeit at a cost. “I want to thank the ordinary Argentines who were treated as second-class citizens for decades,” he said during his broadcast message.
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Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:46 UTC
Brazil's inflation slows down, IBGE announces

The Broad National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) in South America's largest country stood at 0.39% in November, according to the Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) survey released Tuesday, Agencia Brasil reported. The new figures represented a slowdown from October's 0.56%, which “does not indicate a drop in prices but rather a slower pace of increases” as food items kept driving the IPCA upwards.
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Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:45 UTC
Argentine gov't repeals ancestral land ownership claims in Patagonia

Indigenous communities in Argentine Patagonia voiced their rejection of the Federal Government's Decree 1083/2024 signed Tuesday repealing the territorial emergency in the region which entitled them to claim ancestral land ownership. “It will bring consequences that everyone will regret,” a Mapuche group warned.
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