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Montevideo, March 13th 2025 - 20:42 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Baroness Chapman at RUSI, UK committed to defend Falkland Islanders right to self-determination

    The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean, during her recent visit to Punta Arenas to honor Chilean mariners

    “Only the Falkland Islanders can and should decide their own future. Our position regarding the Falkland Islands is steadfast, and our commitment to defending the Falkland Islanders right to self-determination will not waiver.”

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Trump signs 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods

    Trump declared a trade war between the US on one side, and China, Mexico, and Canada on the other, with the EU seemingly next in line

    US President Donald Trump on Saturday signed the documents imposing a 25% tariff on Mexican and most Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy products and Chinese goods. The target countries announced retaliatory initiatives. The reciprocal import/export taxation will become effective Feb. 4.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    Milei says anti-fascist LGBT+ protesters duped by “edited” version of his speech

    Participating in Saturday's LGBTQ+ march was Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof, among other opposition leaders

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Sunday that he was saddened by how those participating in the Feb. 1 Gay Pride demonstration in Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo were “used with an edited video.”

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 08:44 UTC

    Paraguay's BCP outlines scenario under Trump's policies

    Trump's measures target “those countries with which the US maintains high trade deficits such as Mexico and China,” the BCP stressed

    Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) has picked up the glove from US President Donald Trump's barrage of protectionist economic measures and spoke of higher financing costs among the possible consequences of the Republican leader's policies. In addition, the US dollar would keep its upward trend against the guarani amid global uncertainty. Hence, there would be no room for a reduction in benchmark interest rates.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 08:22 UTC

    Mask mandates decreed in Bolivia as school year starts amid Covid-19 fears

    An increase in Covid-19 cases has also been reported in North and Northeast Brazil

    Bolivian authorities decreed schoolchildren should wear facemasks and adopt other sanitary measures such as alcohol gel and hand washing as they return to school Monday to prevent respiratory diseases (i.e. Covid-19) which have been reported to be on the rise.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 07:38 UTC

    Trump's tariffs already have repercussions in Japan

    Trump's economic plans might impact the exchange rate between the US dollar and the yen

    Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products, the Nikkei index in Tokyo, which groups together the 225 most representative stocks in the market, plummeted by 2.5%. The White House measures over the weekend impacted the Japanese capital early Monday morning.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Chile's participation in US visa waiver program might soon be over

    The 2013 ended up a streamline for Chilean “criminal gangs to flock to the United States,” Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and 10 others claimed

    Less than a fortnight into Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States, Chilean nationals having access to the Visa Waiver program would have its days numbered. On Friday, 11 Republican lawmakers signed a document favoring their removal from the list. This initiative adds to a previous request from Orange County (California) District Attorney Todd Spitzer.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Trump's envoy brings back home 6 US hostages from Caracas

    Grenell brought back six former US hostages whose identities were not disclosed

    After meeting with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, US President Donald Trump's envoy to Caracas Richard Grenell boarded his flight back home alongside six Americans who had been held hostage by the Bolivarian regime.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Brazil: shocking slave-like labor figures released

    Most slavery-like conditions are found in rural areas but urban cases are becoming more frequent

    Numerous businessmen and politicians were singled out in a Labor Ministry report on slave-like working conditions in South America's largest country, released this week, singled out numerous businessmen and politicians. Over the last three decades, over 65,500 people have been rescued from such a situation. In 2024 alone, 1,035 inspections were carried out, resulting in 2,004 people being rescued, as the local feebleness of human rights was once again exposed.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:19 UTC

    Falklands celebrates Girls and Women in Sport International Day with huge display

    “Fearless and fierce celebrate Girls and Women Sport Day”

    A very active month for sports in the Falkland Islands particularly with the coming Girls and Women in Sport International Day scheduled on 05 February. With this in mind the Falklands National Sports Council, NSC, is coordinating a series of social media posts and events to highlight a selection of the many women in Falkland sport as well as offering some opportunities to have a go at some sports that women might not have considered previously.