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Montevideo, February 11th 2025 - 00:33 UTC

Stories for January 10th 2025

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 22:50 UTC

    Machado says Maduro committed a coup d'état

    “Maduro violated the Constitution flanked by the dictators of Cuba and Nicaragua,” Machado underlined in a video posted on social networks

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Nicolás Maduro carried out a coup d'état by swearing in as President on Friday instead of Edmundo González Urrrutia who failed to return to Caracas for the occasion as he had promised.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 20:05 UTC

    UK imposes sanctions on Bolivarian regime officials

    Maduro's regime does not represent the will of the Venezuelan people, Lammy explained

    The British Government Friday slapped additional sanctions on 15 members of Nicolás Maduro's regime in a move to encourage Venezuelan officials to respect democratic principles, to comply with international human rights law, and to respect human rights, the Foreign Office announced. London also denounced the Bolivarian leader's illegitimate claim to the presidency following the “fraudulent” July 28, 2024, elections.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 16:50 UTC

    Venezuela: Maduro sworn in for presidential term “of peace”

    “I swear that this new presidential term will be the term of peace,” Maduro stressed

    Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for the 2025-2031 term after being declared the winner of the controversial July 28, 2024, elections. During a ceremony at the Elliptical Hall of the Federal Legislative Palace, Maduro took his oath upon a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution signed by the late Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 15:29 UTC

    Falkland Islands commemorate Margaret Thatcher Day

    Photo: Falkland Islands Government

    The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly marked Margaret Thatcher Day on January 10, paying tribute to the late British Prime Minister for her leadership during the 1982 Falklands War. The day is observed annually to honor her role in safeguarding the Islands’ right to self-determination.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    Argentina: Mapuches evicted from Los Alerces National Park

    Torres made a distinction between peaceful aboriginal communities and the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance “made up of delinquents who consider themselves natives” to claim benefits

    After four years of legal actions, a group of self-identified Mapuches was evicted from Argentina's Los Alerces National Park following instructions from Esquel's Federal Judge Guido Otranto. Chubut Governor celebrated the measure.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Uruguay advises against traveling to Venezuela

    Montevideo insisted that this was just a recommendation and that travelers may go anywhere at their own risk

    Uruguay's Foreign Ministry issued a statement this week advising against traveling to Venezuela, where “arbitrary detentions and kidnappings” by authorities and paramilitary groups are known to have been occurring. There is even a Uruguayan national among those missing, Montevideo insisted.

  • Friday, January 10th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    Presence of serotype 3 of dengue virus worries Brazilian authorities

    In the last four weeks of 2024, 84% of dengue cases were mainly in São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Goiás, and Santa Catarina

    Brazilian health authorities have expressed concern following the reappearance of the dengue virus serotype 3, particularly in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Amapá, and Paraná since the last four weeks of December, Agência Brasil reported Thursday. The virus has not circulated predominantly in the country since 2008. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the disease generated a “historic epidemic in the Americas” in 2024, with more than 12.6 million cases.