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Montevideo, May 25th 2025 - 13:20 UTC

Stories for May 2025

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Boluarte allowed to attend Leo XIV's enthronement

    The new pontiff holds Peruvian citizenship, unlike the Argentine Pope Francis, whose funeral Boluarte was kept from attending

    Peru's one-house Congress approved President Dina Boluarte's request to travel to the Vatican from May 16-19, 2025, to attend the enthronement ceremony of Pope Leo XIV, with 68 votes in favor, 37 against, and 2 abstentions.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Argentina: Indec says April's inflation stood at 2.8%

    Milei said Caputo was the best Economy Minister in history

    Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) reached 2.8% in April 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires, much to President Javier Milei's content and the bafflement of the population coping with an unmatching reality.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Brazil: STF issues unanimous ruling against Congresswoman Zambelli

    Wednesday's decision can be appealed

    The First Chamber of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) unanimously sentenced Congresswoman Carla Zambelli to 10 years in prison for hacking into the electronic system of the National Justice Council (CNJ) in 2023. The ruling was supported by Justices Alexandre De Moraes, Flávio Dino, Cristiano Zanin, Luiz Fux, and Cármen Lúcia. The decision can be revised, Agencia Brasil explained.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    The cephalopods market faces tight supply and rising prices, FAO report

    The Falkland Islands fishery, the main supplier of the Spanish market has seen seasons cut short because of lack of sufficient biomass, and the size of squid

    The global cephalopods market is under increasing strain as tight supply continues in early 2025. Reduced landings in key producing regions, adverse weather, and extra tariff barriers are contributing to upward pressure on cephalopod prices across major international markets, reports FAO’s Mohamed Hammi.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

    Paraguay: Maquila Regime yields encouraging results

    Interannually, 6,795 workplaces were created under this manufacturing regime, where 100% of its output is for export

    In Paraguay, exports under the Maquila regime totaled US$ 388 million as of April 2025, a 13% yoy increase driven mainly by auto parts, textiles, aluminum products, food, and plastics, currently generating 32,712 direct jobs, a 26% growth from the previous year.

  • Thursday, May 15th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina to toughen immigration rules

    “We want to continue welcoming those who come to build a freer and more prosperous country,” Adorni insisted

    Argentina's Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, who is campaigning to become a lawmaker in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires' elections next Sunday, has announced that the Javier Milei administration plans to introduce stricter immigration requirements to curb State spending on illegal aliens.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 13:48 UTC

    EU tariffs on Falklands exports, “we are in ongoing discussions”, says FCDO

    Foreign Secretary David Lammy was questioned at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Falklands foreign trade

    A specific question in UK Parliament on the Falkland Islands Government urgent call to the UK Government for the use of the current UK/EU reset agreement as an opportunity to remove the detrimental post-Brexit tariffs on Falklands exports, received from Foreign Secretary David Lammy a brief reply of “ongoing discussions”.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 13:41 UTC

    UK Ambassador to Argentina visits Falklands Office in London

    Ambassador David Cairns and FIGO Representative Richard Hyslop

    UK’s recently appointed ambassador to Argentina, David Cairns visited the Falkland Islands Government Office in London where he met with Representative Richard Hyslop and other staff from FIGO.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 12:33 UTC

    CFK's would-be assassin convicted in child pornography case

    Sabag Montiel tried to shoot CFK on Sept. 1, 2022, but his pistol jammed

    Fernando Sabag Montiel, the main suspect in the assassination attempt against then Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in September 2022, Tuesday clinched a plea deal with the prosecution in an unrelated child pornopraphy case for which he was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in jail.

  • Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 11:24 UTC

    Falklands Consolidated Fisheries Trust awards applications close 31st May

    Eimear Smith and Mark McLeod recently completed their courses to be able to provide climbing instruction to the community.

    The Falkland Islands Consolidated Fisheries Ltd., over the past five years has made 23 awards assisting individuals in further education and training, which in the long-term will benefit the Falklands community.