US President Donald Trump met Monday with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders following his encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin to keep working towards a solution to the ongoing crisis.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday welcomed his Ecuadorean colleague Daniel Noboa at the Planalto Palace for a meeting during which both leaders set aside their ideological discrepancies and focused on strengthening trade and cooperation, particularly after Washington's tariffs.
During his recent trip to Brazil, former US Vice President Al Gore said that his country's stance on the climate crisis was schizophrenic, changing from one view to another, depending on who ruled. In his first term in office, between 2017 and 2021, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, whose main objective is to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But then came Joseph Biden, and the country returned to the agreement, only to pull out yet again with Trump's second term.
Brazil is donating 20 EE-11 Urutu armored vehicles to the Paraguayan Army to help modernize its military and strengthen regional defense cooperation. The donation will increase Paraguay's fleet of Urutu vehicles from 12 to 32.
In a controversial move, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña appointed Bella Rosa Flores Benítez as the new Deputy Minister of Family Farming. The new official faces fraud, falsifying public documents, and criminal association charges from Prosecutor José Godoy after she was accused of selling a 165-hectare property in 2021 that was not hers.
Haitian National Police (PNH) Acting Director-General Vladimir Paraison and Canada's Ambassador to Port-au-Prince André François Giroux discussed cooperation regarding security issues, particularly training, logistics, and institutional development.
Weather forecasters in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina foresee stormy conditions early this week due to an extratropical cyclone expected to bring severe havoc to the region.
Montevideo's Carrasco International Airport will be closed from 9 am Tuesday to 9 am Thursday due to improvement works on its ILS landing system, which will enable operations under poorer visibility, it was reported in the Uruguayan capital. Travelers were advised to check with their airlines about possible delays or reroutings.
Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) officially launched its first manufacturing facility in the Americas, located in Brazil, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva present at the ceremony. The plant is set to function as a regional export hub for Latin America.
Right-wing candidates Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga advanced Sunday to an unprecedented runoff after the elections in Bolivia. Preliminary results showed Paz Pereira in front with 32.2% of the vote and Quiroga in second place with 26.9%, which marks a significant shift in Bolivian politics, as it signals the end of two decades of leftist rule by the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party, led by former presidents Evo Morales Aymá and Luis Arce Catacora. The runoff election is scheduled for Oct. 19.