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Montevideo, February 22nd 2025 - 10:16 UTC

Stories for January 22nd 2025

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 21:13 UTC

    Milei would have no qualms breaking up with Mercosur if need be for FTA with US

    Milei is willing to pay any price to drive along what he thinks is prosperity's road

    Argentine President Javier Milei said in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos (Switzerland) that if breaking up with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was a requirement to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, he would not hesitate to do it.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 20:53 UTC

    Argentina picks Béraud to head all three Montevideo-based embassies

    Béraud is a career diplomat who has served as Ambassador to Japan and Costa Rica

    Argentina's Libertarian Government Wednesday announced the appointment of career Ambassador Alan Claudio Béraud as the new mission chief before Uruguay. Béraud is already stationed in Montevideo, where he heads Argentina's representations before the Southern Comon Market (Mercosur) and the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI).

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 10:48 UTC

    Cuba back on US list of terrorism-sponsoring nations under Trump

    The Republican head of state placed Cuba among those nations where he had already included it during his first term in office (2017-2021)

    US President Donald Trump added Cuba once again to the list of nations sponsoring terrorism and announced tougher measures against Venezuela's Bolivarian regime which stayed in power past Jan. 10 despite half the world not recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 09:30 UTC

    Brazilian Central Bank report foresees 5.08% inflation for this year

    The Brazilian real is expected to grow against the US dollar in the coming years, the Focus Bulletin said

    The Focus Bulletin released earlier this week by Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) projected a 5.08% inflation for this year in South America's largest country. The new prediction represented a slight twitch from last week's 5% National Consumer Price Index (IPCA). Meanwhile, Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - the sum of goods and services produced in the country - is expected to grow by 2.04% in 2025, a slight improvement from 2.02% the week before.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 09:13 UTC

    Falklands Conservation invitation on Penguin Awareness Day

    January 20th, Penguin Awareness Day, acknowledged worldwide and the environmental group Falklands Conservation, extended an invitation to celebrate the incredible penguins that call the Falkland Islands home.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 09:07 UTC

    Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Granddaughter Nº139

    Carlotto highlighted the importance of the collective struggle to find the children of those abducted by the dictatorship who are still listed as “missing”

    The human rights organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires the finding of “Granddaughter Nº139.” The entity seeks to determine the true identity of children born in captivity from prisoners who were later declared as “disappeared” by the military dictatorship, their offspring handed over for adoption to families ideologically compatible with the far-right de facto regime.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 08:15 UTC

    Colombian company signs partnership with Bolivia's YPFB

    Signing the documents were YPFB's president Armin Dorgathen and Canacol's representative in Bolivia Luis Alberto Pérez

    Bolivia's state-run oil company signed Tuesday a series of agreements with Colombia's Canacol representing an investment of up to US$ 270 million for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation undertakings in the Ovai, Florida Este, Arenales, and Tita-Techi areas, all of them in the department of Santa Cruz.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 07:36 UTC

    WHO wishes US would reconsider pulling out

    “The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948,” the UN agency recalled

    After US President announced he was pulling his country once again from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) agency issued a statement Tuesday wishing such a decision would be reconsidered. Trump had already left the WHO during his first term in office but his decision was reversed by his successor (and now predecessor) Joseph Biden.