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Montevideo, March 13th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 21:06 UTC

    Venezuela reopens borders with Colombia and Brazil

    The two borders had been closed due to an alleged conspiracy against Maduro

    Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Monday reopened the borders with Colombia and Brazil it had closed ahead of Friday's inauguration of Nicolás Maduro as President for a third consecutive six-year term. The measure had been adopted due to an alleged “international conspiracy” following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections the Opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) of retired diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia also claimed to have won.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 08:44 UTC

    Chile: Starwatching endangered by industrial project

    The Paranal Observatory is arguably South America's main such facility given the geographical conditions surrounding it which may be spoilt by the electricity company's plan

    The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company AES Andes which could significantly affect the operations of the Paranal Observatory.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:44 UTC

    IMF warns Milei about increasing poverty amid exchange rate controls

    Milei hopes things will get better after Trump's inauguration

    Despite approving Argentine President Javier Milei's management in a broad way, the International Monetary Fund suggested the South American country should pay more attention to exchange rate arrears and the increasing poverty.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:06 UTC

    Climate change watchdogs concur 2024 was the hottest year ever

    “We didn't have just one or two record years, but a full ten-year series,” WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo of Argentina said

    Last year was the hottest on record and it even surpassed the global warming limit, the European Union's Copernicus Earth Observation Program and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) concurred. In addition, 2023 and 2024 saw average global temperatures exceed the internationally agreed 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:05 UTC

    Blast reported at Venezuela's consulate in Lisbon

    The premises were empty at the time of the attack - hence no injuries

    An explosive device went off late Saturday at Venezuela's consulate in Lisbon. Nobody was injured because at the time of the attack which local media said consisted of a Molotov cocktail, the offices were closed. “The Portuguese government strongly condemns the attack on the Venezuelan consulate in Lisbon,” Portugal's Foreign Ministry posted on X.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:00 UTC

    Boliviana de Aviación riddled with complaints for delays and cancellations

    BoA's main problems stem from the Janine Áñez years, Montaño argued

    Bolivian flag carrier Boliviana de Aviación (BoA) faces substantial fines worth up to 1,472,416 bolivianos (US$ 211,864) for its 2024 noncompliances while five incidents have already been recorded this year for constant delays, flight cancellations, and poor handling of passenger complaints, Bolivia's Telecommunications and Transport Regulation and Supervision Authority (ATT) explained.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 05:58 UTC

    Britten-Norman Islanders to be adapted to hydrogen electric propulsion by German company

    Islanders have been particularly successful in the Falkland Islands with the local airline FIGAS since 1948 and as fisheries marine patrol.

    Britten-Norman Islanders to be converted to zero-emissions hydrogen electric propulsion systems by a German company that is focused on carbon neutral regional aviation. According to AOL air industry reports, Evia Aero, has signed a letter of intent with the UK-based aircraft manufacturer, for the purchase of 15 Islander aircraft.

  • Monday, January 13th 2025 - 05:08 UTC

    Former Venezuelan VP Isaías Rodriguez dead at 82

    Isaías Rodríguez was instrumental in thwarting the 2002 coup d'état that removed Hugo Chávez from office for two days

    Isaías Rodríguez, Venezuela's first vice president as per the 1999 Constitution under Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez, passed away Sunday at the age of 82, President Nicolás Maduro announced in Caracas. Rodríguez also served as Venezuela's Attorney General as well as Ambassador to Italy, and vice president of the Constituent Assembly.

  • Sunday, January 12th 2025 - 03:45 UTC

    Macron and Lula urge Maduro to resume talks with the opposition

    Neither Macron nor Lula have recognized Maduro's electoral win

    Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil were reported Friday to have spoken on the telephone with Veenezuela's Nicolás Maduro to persuade him to resume talks with the opposition after being inaugurated for a third consecutive six-year term following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections.

  • Saturday, January 11th 2025 - 09:59 UTC

    González Urrutia says he is close to returning to Venezuela

    “And to the military and police forces, I order the cessation of repression,” González Urrutia said as if he had officially assumed the presidency

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, for many the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections even after Nicolás Maduro's inauguration for a new six-year term, said he was “close” to return to the country and called on the Armed Forces to “disregard illegal orders” from the Bolivarian de facto regime.