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Montevideo, July 3rd 2025 - 15:00 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

    France demanded to pay slavery reparations to Haiti

    The petitioners also requested that France own up to the independence fee it charged 200 years ago

    A large number of Latin American social organizations and personalities, such as Argentine 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, demanded Thursday that France recognize and compensate Haiti for the indemnity it imposed after the country's independence in 1804.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Brazil's Fire Monitor detects 70% reduction in burned areas

    Of the total burned areas, 78% were covered by native vegetation

    Brazil reduced its burned areas by 70% yoy in the first quarter of 2025, with fires affecting 912,900 hectares, down from 2.1 million hectares. The reduction is largely attributed to the rainy season, although the Cerrado biome saw a 12% increase in burned areas, surpassing historical averages. The Amazon remained the most affected, accounting for 78% of the total burned area despite a 72% decrease compared to 2024, according to figures released Wednesday by the Fire Monitor, a MapBiomas tool that uses satellite imagery to track fire scars nationwide.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazil launches pet registration program for cats and dogs

    When we take proper care of the dog and cat population, we avoid zoonoses, Silva noted

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday launched the National Program for the Protection and Ethical Population Management of Dogs and Cats (ProPatinhas) and the National Domestic Animal Registry System (SinPatinhas) during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 18:36 UTC

    Emergency declared in Colombia as yellow fever cases soar

    “The strategy is focused on mass vaccination,” Alfonso explained

    Colombia has declared a state of emergency due to a yellow fever outbreak, with 74 cases and 34 deaths reported. The virus, transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, has spread beyond typical risk areas like the Amazon, Catatumbo, and Chocó, affecting regions such as Tolima, where cases rose from 4 to 22 since September 2024.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 18:22 UTC

    Humala's wife arrives in Brazil, where she was granted asylum

    Brazil has a tradition of granting asylum to high-profile political leaders facing jail time in their countries

    Former Peruvian First Lady Nadine Heredia arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after seeking asylum to avoid serving a 15-year prison sentence handed down on her and her husband Ollanta Humala, who has already been transferred to the Barbadilo prison already housing former heads of State Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo Terrones.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentina records slight trade balance surplus

    Had last year's prices persisted, Argentina's trade balance would be in the red

    Although positive, Argentina's trade surplus of US$ 323 million in March 2025 represented a sharp drop from US$ 2,160 million in the same month last year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said in a report released Wednesday.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Milei takes heavy flak in Bolivia for remarks alongside Bessent

    Milei forgot to mention “the deep social crises, the growing inequality, and the institutional violence that exist in their own territories,” Bolivia's Foreign Ministry stressed

    The Bolivian Government of President Luis Arce Catacora criticized Argentine ruler Javier Milei for his verbal attack on Latin American and Caribbean regional integration. During a press conference on Monday in Casa Rosada alongside US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, the Libertarian leader criticized Bolivia's socialist economic model under the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentina's Indec to gauge CPI differently

    The Indec finalized in March all the technical and methodological developments for the new CPI, Francos pointed out

    Argentine Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos announced Wednesday that a new methodology for calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to measure inflation more accurately is to be implemented shortly by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), pending institutional review and an awareness campaign.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:27 UTC

    Boric condemns presidential hopeful's remarks regarding Pinochet's regime

    Matthei said the coup was necessary to keep Chile from becoming th next Cuba

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font strongly condemned opposition leader Evelyn Matthei’s justification of the 1973 coup d’état that overthrew Salvador Allende. Boric insisted that Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military dictatorship (1973-1990) was “criminal and illegitimate” and noted that nothing justified the murders, disappearances, tortures, and exiles that ensued

  • Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:57 UTC

    The giant squid trawled by Falklands’ vessel preserved at London’s Natural History Museum

    The squid Architeuthis dux, was caught during a regular trawl by the Falklands' fishing vessel 'John Cheek', from Petrel Trawling Ltd © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

    In February 2006, a 8.62 meters giant squid caught off the Falkland Islands April 2005 went on public display at the Natural History Museum in London. Researchers at the museum undertook a painstaking process to preserve the giant creature, which is on display in a 9m long glass tank immersed in a mix of salt water and formalin.