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Montevideo, May 5th 2026 - 00:50 UTC

Stories for 2026

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 22:10 UTC

    IMF approves second review of Argentina program, unlocking US$1 billion disbursement

    Argentina is the IMF's largest debtor. Its obligations to the Fund exceed $57 billion, accounting for 34.5% of the institution's outstanding loans, and grew 36% over the past twelve months

    The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday reached a staff-level agreement with Argentina on the second review of the country's extended fund facility, clearing the way for a disbursement of approximately $1 billion pending approval by the Fund's executive board. With this tranche, Argentina will have received roughly $15 billion of the $20 billion agreed in April 2025, Reuters reported.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:23 UTC

    Milei blames opposition and Iran war for 3.4% inflation and calls for patience

    Milei called on citizens to be “patient” and rejected proposals to ease monetary policy

    Argentine President Javier Milei devoted his speech on Tuesday at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) summit to addressing the March inflation figure released hours earlier by statistics agency INDEC: a monthly 3.4%, the highest reading in a year and the tenth consecutive month of acceleration since the 1.5% recorded in May 2025.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:20 UTC

    Uruguay bets on international integration to attract investment amid global uncertainty

    The IMF cut its growth forecast for Uruguay from 2.4% to 1.8% for 2026, matching the 2025 rate, as part of a global revision triggered by the conflict in Iran

    Uruguay's government responded on Tuesday to the International Monetary Fund's latest projections with a strategy centered on trade openness and investment attraction. Deputy Economy and Finance Minister Martín Vallcorba acknowledged the world is going through “a moment of great uncertainty” driven by the Middle East war, but said the country is working to create “positive and favorable conditions for investment and growth.”

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

    Bukele bets on Google to build “world's best health system” as medical sector decries layoffs

    “The 30,000 daily appointments are human doctors treating patients with AI support. But AI agents will be doing this separately and in parallel,” he specified.

    El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday in a national broadcast the launch of the second phase of Dr. SV, a public health application developed with Google Cloud that incorporates artificial intelligence based on the Gemini model to detect, diagnose and monitor patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney conditions.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 02:30 UTC

    Orsi to meet Sanchez, Sheinbaum and Ramaphosa in Barcelona at multilateralism summit

    The summit is the fourth edition of a process that began in New York in 2024 and continued in Santiago de Chile in July 2025, when Orsi participated alongside Sánchez

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi will travel to Barcelona on Friday to attend the fourth “Democracy Always” summit, a gathering of 19 heads of state convened by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, where the Uruguayan leader will focus his remarks on “the value of multilateralism,” according to Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 01:06 UTC

    Trump turns on Meloni, his top European ally, as Italy suspends defense deal with Israel

    On the same day, Meloni announced that Italy would suspend the automatic renewal of its defense cooperation agreement with Israel

    US President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned on Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, until recently his closest ally in Europe, in a phone interview with the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera. “I thought she had courage, but I was wrong,” Trump said, criticizing Meloni for refusing to involve Italy in the war against Iran and for calling his attacks on Pope Leo XIV “unacceptable.”

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 00:59 UTC

    US lifts sanctions on Venezuela's Central Bank and backs its return to the IMF

    The move responds to persistent demands by acting President Delcy Rodríguez, whose individual sanctions OFAC had already lifted on April 1

    The US Treasury Department on Tuesday lifted financial sanctions on Venezuela's Central Bank and three other state-owned banking institutions, in the most significant easing of the punitive regime in place since 2017. On the same day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly endorsed efforts by the International Monetary Fund to reintegrate Venezuela into the international financial system.

  • Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 00:20 UTC

    The Top 5 Crypto Casino Games You Should Play for Maximum Rewards

    Crypto casino gaming has exploded way beyond basic Bitcoin betting. It's now a sophisticated ecosystem where players can actually verify game fairness through blockchain technology.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2026 - 10:28 UTC

    Peru reaches 72% of vote count with Fujimori ahead and second place disputed among three candidates

    The quick count, based on 95.7% of the vote tallies, revealed an even closer race: Fujimori with 17.1% and a three-way tie between Sánchez (12.4%), López Aliaga (11.3%), and Nieto (10.7%)

    The count in Peru's presidential election is advancing slowly and without resolution. With 72% of ballots processed by the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) early Tuesday morning, Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular) holds first place with 16.94% of the vote. Second place, which grants entry to the June 7 runoff, remains open: Rafael López Aliaga (Renovación Popular) stands at 13.0%, Jorge Nieto (Buen Gobierno) at 12.0% and leftist Roberto Sánchez (Juntos por el Perú) at 9.73%, with the gap narrowing as ballots from the country's interior are added.

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2026 - 01:39 UTC

    Argentina awaits year's highest inflation reading as Caputo bets on “best 18 months”

    The Central Bank's latest Market Expectations Survey (REM) yielded an average of 3%, though the top ten ranked analysts estimated 3.1%

    Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Monday that March inflation will exceed 3%, which would make it the highest monthly reading of 2026, hours before the national statistics agency INDEC is scheduled to release the Consumer Price Index on Tuesday, April 14, at 4:00 p.m.