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Montevideo, February 22nd 2025 - 18:45 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Argentina to create unified Federal Emergency Agency

    With 12 relief agencies overlapping efforts, they make a disaster, Bullrich explained

    The Argentine Government announced Tuesday the creation of a Federal Emergency Agency to coordinate relief against major disasters such as fires and floods. There are 12 State structures overlapping in cases of emergencies, which “generates disorder,” explained Security Minister Patricia Bullrich from El Bolsón, where she was overseeing the wildfire fighting efforts alongside Defense Minister Luis Petri.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Yamandú Orsi calls for tougher measures in Congo

    Pulling Uruguay from the Monusco force needs to be decided with all the elements on the table, Orsi argued

    Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi maintained Tuesday that the United Nations must do something concrete about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where troops from the South American country are stationed as part of the international Monusco peacekeeping mission. “The United Nations Security Council has to take a firmer decision,” Orsi stressed.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 09:48 UTC

    Bolivia's lithium company says deal with Chinese partners is risk-free

    The Chinese company has three years to start collecting top-quality lithium or leave Bolivia with no compensation after investing over US$ 1 billion

    Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) Legal Manager Pablo Nina warned Tuesday that the Chinese company Hong Kong CBC has three years to extract a mineral with 99.5% purity and 80% recovery in the raw material processing or face the dismantling of its two battery-grade lithium carbonate production plants in the Uyuni salt flat and leave the country.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 08:54 UTC

    US dollar not lagging, says Caputo

    “With Javier Milei we have the best relationship that an Economy Minister has ever had with a President,” Caputo said

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis 'Toto' Caputo insisted Tuesday that the US dollar was not lagging against the peso and also mentioned that a new deal with the Monetary Fund (IMF) was just details away from being finalized. He made those remarks and negative results hit the local stock markets, and the country-risk index regained its upward trend following President Javier Milei's statements that a devaluation was not in sight and that the government did not intend to modify the current pensions law.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 00:01 UTC

    Interesting ways of random number generation

    Photo: PxHere

    Random number generation is a key part of cybersecurity and encryption, and it is applied to many apps used in everyday life, both for business and leisure.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 19:52 UTC

    Brazil: January's IPCA lowest since 1994

    The so-called Itaipu Bonus on electricity bills played a key role in achieving these figures, the IBGE explained

    Inflation last month in South America's largest country reached 0.16%, January's lowest since 1994, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) announced Tuesday. The agency also noted that the main cause for such an unprecedented feat after the introduction of the real was the so-called Itaipu Bonus, a special discount on electricity bills benefitting some 78 million consumers. The Real Plan was implemented in July of that year.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 19:26 UTC

    Taiwan largest market for Paraguayan pork exports

    Overall, Paraguayan pork shipments grew both in volume and revenue over the past year

    Taipei's Embassy in Asunción confirmed this week that Paraguay's pork exports to Taiwan grew by 108% last year, thus grabbing an 87% share of the South American country's shipments of the product, yielding revenues around US$ 29 million.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 14:23 UTC

    Guterres wants Israel and Hamas to keep negotiating while Trump heralds hell in Gaza

    “We must avoid at all costs the resumption of hostilities,” Guterres said

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday urged the terrorist group Hamas not to drop the plan to release Israeli hostages in exchange for convicted Palestinians. The Portuguese diplomat urged both sides of the conflict to avoid “hostilities” and carry on with the second stage of the ceasefire. Hamas had announced it would not abide by the deal after Israel allegedly violated the truce.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    First U.S.-Venezuela deportation flights begin under Trump-Maduro agreement

    Venezuelan deportees are loaded onto a plane, in an image shared by the White House, February 10, 2025.

    Two state-owned Conviasa planes departed from El Paso, Texas, on Monday, carrying the first group of Venezuelan deportees under the agreement between United States President Donald Trump and his counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. The operation comes just two weeks after Maduro met with Trump’s envoy, Richard Grenell, in Caracas—a meeting marked by the U.S. flag flying once again at Miraflores Palace.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    PAHO warns of outbrreak of dengue DENV-3 serotype

    In the first weeks of 2025, 23 countries and territories in the region reported a total of 238,659 cases

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Monday issued an epidemiological alert given the growing circulation of a different of dengue in the region. Cases of the DENV-3 serotype have been repported to be on the rise in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.