MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 1st 2025
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 10:26 UTC
Colombia summons Celac FMs to discuss US Caribbean deployment
Colombia, holding the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), has called an urgent virtual meeting of the organization's foreign ministers to address recent US military movements in the Caribbean.
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 10:15 UTC
Incumbent's brother elected Governor of Corrientes
If Sunday's gubernatorial elections in the Argentine province of Corrientes are anything to go by, given the upcoming mid-term polls, President Javier Milei's candidate took fourth place while Juan Pablo Valdés of the “Vamos Corrientes” coalition - and brother of incumbent Goovernor Gustavo Valdés - secured victory in the first round with 52% of the vote, which is enough to avoid a runoff. The Radical Civic Union (UCR), to which the Valdés brothers belong, has now governed the province for 24 years.
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 10:06 UTC
Maduro praises Venezuelans who enlist
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro praised the “magnificent and moving” participation in the Great Bolivarian Militia Enlistment Day, a nationwide event held over the weekend.
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:58 UTC
Brazil’s richest earning faster
A study by the research group FiscalData last week found that Brazil's 0.1% richest people (about 160,000 individuals) increased their earnings fivefold faster than average Brazilians between 2017 and 2023. This group's income rose 6.9% against the 1.4% national average. Hence, they went from holding 9.1% of the country's income in 2017 to 12.5% in 2023, the survey found.
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:52 UTC
Ecuador announces new transit visa requirements
The Ecuadorian Government of President Daniel Noboa announced that, starting Monday, the South American country would require transit visas for holders of passports from 45 nationalities that already require consular approval for longer stays.
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:51 UTC
Researchers find wreck of former Uruguayan Navy's ROU 01
The “Uruguay Sub200” scientific expedition, aboard the research vessel Falkor, has discovered the shipwreck of the destroyer ROU-01 Uruguay - formerly the USS Baron - at a depth of 1,160 meters off the coast.
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Monday, September 1st 2025 - 09:51 UTC
Former lawmaker Elisa Carrió says Milei has consumed too much child pornography
Former Argentine Congresswoman Elisa Carrió said in a TV interview that President Javier Milei consumed too much child pornography and described the Libertarian leader as a “pervert.” She also mentioned that Presidential Secretary (and sister) Karina Milei was “the darkest character” in the government.
