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Montevideo, April 24th 2025 - 16:50 UTC

Stories for 2025

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 10:06 UTC

    Maduro claims Argentine NCO targeted VP Delcy Rodríguez

    “God guard her and God has guarded her,” the Bolivarian leader stressed about Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed Monday that Argentine Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo who has been detained and charged with espionage intended to kill Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. “God guard her and God has guarded her,” the Bolivarian leader stressed while insisting that Javier Milei's Libertarian administration was behind it all because it was not true that Gallo had a romantic partner and a child in Venezuela. “That gentleman has his wife in Argentina,” Maduro argued.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 09:45 UTC

    Fugitive Chilean guerrilla captured in Bolivia

    Muñoz Hoffman was the last fugitive of the four guerrillas who staged the legendary “Flight of Justice” in 1996

    Former Chilean guerrilla fighter Pablo Muñoz Hoffman was arrested Monday in La Paz, Bolivia, after 29 years at large following a movie-style jailbreak using a helicopter. Together with Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, Ricardo Palma Salamanca, and Patricio Ortiz Montenegro, all members of the now-defunct Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), they staged the so-called “Flight of Justice.”

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 08:15 UTC

    Argentina's automotive industry forecast to bounce back this year

    “With a clear strategy and concrete measures, 2025 looks like a favorable year for the automotive industry,” Zuppi hoped

    Argentina's carmaking industry posted a 17.1% contraction in 2024, with an output of 506,571 units, a report from the Association of Automotive Manufacturers (ADEFA) released this week showed. Nevertheless, production is expected to reach 600,000 units this year.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 07:13 UTC

    Indonesia joins BRICS as full member, Brasilia confirms

    Brazil took over the bloc's rotating presidency on Jan. 1.

    Brazil's government confirmed Monday that Indonesia had joined the BRICS bloc as a full member, making it the first country to do so this year, Agencia Brasil reported. The alliance now has the fourth largest population on the planet, with the new partner's 284 million inhabitants making it the 10th largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the World Bank.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 22:00 UTC

    Paraguay recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as President-elect and breaks diplomatic ties with Caracas

    Paraguay gave Venezuela's diplomatic mission 48 hours to leave the country

    The Paraguayan Government of President Santiago Peña Monday announced it was recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia of the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) as the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections in Venezuela, which prompted a diplomatic breakup with Nicolás Maduro's regime.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 20:27 UTC

    Trudeau announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada

    Trudeau will remain as caretaker Prime Minister until a new Liberal Party leader is appointed

    Justin Trudeau announced Monday his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada after nine years in office. His stepping down would become effective once the Liberal Party finds a new leader “through a competitive and rigorous process at the national level.”

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    González Urrutia recalls that his inauguration would make him commander-in-chief of Venezuela's armed forces

    The retired diplomat is meeting US President Joseph Biden on Monday

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia who insists he won the controversial July 28 elections and will be sworn in next Friday in Caracas warned his country's armed forces that, as of that day, he will become their “commander in chief.” As such, he demanded absolute loyalty, which has nonetheless been pledged to the incumbent Nicolás Maduro.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

    María Corina Machado calls for mass protests against Maduro in Venezuela

    ‘Freedom cannot be begged for, it can be fought for and won. We cannot achieve change if we are paralysed’, she said

    Opposition leader María Corina Machado on Sunday called for a day of demonstrations on Thursday, January 9 in Venezuela, the eve of Nicolás Maduro's swearing-in for a third term, amid allegations of electoral fraud.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

    Messi gets US Presidential Medal of Freedom but skips awarding ceremony

    Messi was chosen for “supporting health care and education programs for children through the Leo Messi Foundation and serving as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador”

    Argentine footballing legend Lionel Messi was among the recipients of the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom but skipped the awarding ceremony Saturday at the White House citing previous engagements.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 09:28 UTC

    Brazilian nun becomes oldest person alive after death of Japanese woman

    Tomiko Itooka died on Dec. 29 but her passing was not reported until this past

    A Japanese woman considered to be the world's longest-lived person died on Dec. 29 at 116 years old at a nursing home in the city of Ashiya in the Hyogo Prefecture, it was reported Saturday. A Brazilian nun is now the oldest person alive.