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Montevideo, February 3rd 2025 - 19:57 UTC

Stories for January 2025

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

    María Corina Machado calls for mass protests against Maduro in Venezuela

    ‘Freedom cannot be begged for, it can be fought for and won. We cannot achieve change if we are paralysed’, she said

    Opposition leader María Corina Machado on Sunday called for a day of demonstrations on Thursday, January 9 in Venezuela, the eve of Nicolás Maduro's swearing-in for a third term, amid allegations of electoral fraud.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

    Messi gets US Presidential Medal of Freedom but skips awarding ceremony

    Messi was chosen for “supporting health care and education programs for children through the Leo Messi Foundation and serving as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador”

    Argentine footballing legend Lionel Messi was among the recipients of the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom but skipped the awarding ceremony Saturday at the White House citing previous engagements.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:28 UTC

    Brazilian nun becomes oldest person alive after death of Japanese woman

    Tomiko Itooka died on Dec. 29 but her passing was not reported until this past

    A Japanese woman considered to be the world's longest-lived person died on Dec. 29 at 116 years old at a nursing home in the city of Ashiya in the Hyogo Prefecture, it was reported Saturday. A Brazilian nun is now the oldest person alive.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:16 UTC

    Israeli soldier vacationing in Brazil flees to Argentina to avoid arrest for Gaza war crimes

    The evacuation was said to have been performed on a commercial flight to Argentina

    An Israeli national who was vacationing in Brazil had to flee in a rush to Argentina to avoid being prosecuted there for alleged war crimes committed while deployed in Gaza as a member of the Kfir Brigade.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:02 UTC

    Bolivian inflation soars amid political unrest and poor weather

    Road blockades promoted by former President Evo Morales in US$ 3 billion worth of losses

    According to a report released Sunday by Bolivia's National Statistics Institute (INE), the South American country's inflation last year stood at 9.97% amid poor weather, social conflicts, and road blockades that deteriorated the economy considerably. INE Director Humberto Arandia also pointed out that the 2024 figure was the highest in the last 16 years.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

    Meloni pays visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence

    Meloni is a fantastic woman who has taken Europe by storm, Trump argued

    US President-elect Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni met at the former's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after their encounter was arranged in the utmost secrecy. The gathering consisted of a private dinner, the screening of a documentary, and an exchange of views on bilateral matters.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 16:34 UTC

    Milei welcomes González Urrutia at Casa Rosada

    After meeting with Milei, González Urrutia is due in Montevideo later Saturday for an encounter with President Luis Lacalle Pou

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many regard as the truthful winner of the July 28 elections in his country, was welcomed Saturday by Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada. He made Buenos Aires the first stop of his tour ahead of what he has announced will be his inauguration on Jan. 10 in Caracas despite Nicolás Maduro's regime planning otherwise and offering a US$100,000 reward for his head.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 11:56 UTC

    The challenge for Edmundo González, touring Argentina and Uruguay: can he avoid a new Guaidó scenario?

    After Jan 10th, what happens in Caracas may be key for the region's future.

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia visits Montevideo this Saturday as part of a regional tour aimed at obtaining international backing to assume the Presidency of Venezuela next January 10, after declaring himself the winner of last July's elections, according to the voting tallies collected by the opposition. During his stay, he will meet with President Luis Lacalle Pou and Foreign Minister Omar Paganini, who reiterated Uruguay's support to the legitimacy of his electoral triumph.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 11:06 UTC

    Argentina: Footwear manufacturing plant shutdown represents 360 layoffs

    In 2024, the Brazilian Grupo Dass manufactured 7.8 million pairs in Argentina

    Argentina's chainsaw policies with a US dollar so low that everything is expensive nationwide are beginning to take its toll on the local industry: The Grupo Dass sports footwear manufacturing plant in Coronel Suarez, in the province of Buenos Aires, has been closed down - it used to manufacture articles for the brands Adidas, Nike, and Fila.

  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Boric reaches South Pole

    “From here everything is north,” Boric said

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday became the first Latin American leader and the third worldwide to reach the South Pole, thus consolidating his country's commitment to Antarctica. His feat followed in the footsteps of those authorities from New Zealand in 2007 and Norway in 2011. Boric dubbed his trip “a diplomatic, scientific, environmental and aeronautical milestone.” It also Chile as “the gateway to Antarctica,” he said.