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Montevideo, July 8th 2025 - 12:36 UTC

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  • Tuesday, July 8th 2025 - 06:51 UTC

    Falklands, Public Consultation on Use of TV and Radio Services

    FIG is keen to understand what content Falklands’ residents access and what technology they use to access that content.

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) would like to remind all residents that the public consultation on the use of television and radio services across the Islands is still open and will run until 15 July 2025.

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  • Thursday, July 3rd 2025 - 10:19 UTC

    S&P doowngrades Bolivia's ratings

    S&P did not rule out further downgradings in the coming months

    Standard & Poor's (S&P) downgraded Bolivia's long-term credit rating from 'CCC+' to 'CCC-' with a negative outlook. This decision was driven by increasing debt servicing costs and a deteriorating external financial profile, which could make it harder for the landlocked country to access financing and potentially hinder its ability to pay off debt in the coming months.

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  • Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Bi-oceanic corridor feared to hamper Montevideo Port's future

    Montevideo is expensive and Uruguay is a small country, Pozzi explained

    Uruguayan National Port Administration's (ANP) representative at the River Plate Basin Terminal (TCP), Jorge Pozzi, raised concerns Tuesday during a radio interview about the future of Montevideo's port. In his view, the proposed Pacific-Atlantic bioceanic corridor, connecting Brazil with Chile or Peru, could bypass Uruguay entirely, significantly impacting its system, economy, and thousands of workers.

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  • Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    JetSMART launches Recife-Ezeiza route

    The carrier's offer adds to Gol's biweekly flights to Aeroparque

    JetSMART Airlines launched its first direct flight from Recife to Buenos Aires on Tuesday, marking the carrier's entry into Brazil's Northeast region and expanding its international routes in South America's largest country to ten services, across five cities (Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, Nova Iguaçu, São Paulo, and Recife).

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  • Monday, June 30th 2025 - 08:13 UTC

    The future of e-commerce is Latin America

    Photo: Freepik

    In the last few years and especially during COVID-19 pandemic, Latin America has quietly but rapidly become one of the most promising regions for digital industries and e-commerces. The reasons why lie in the growing digital access and mobile adoption, but also in the interest many companies have shown in investing in this area.

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    Paraguay takes steps towards airport security improvement

    The agreement is expected to bring on an improved prevention and control of threats

    Paraguay has implemented the API/PNR (Advance Passenger Information/Passenger Name Record) system to enhance airport immigration security, it was announced Thursday in Asunción.

  • Friday, June 27th 2025 - 08:40 UTC

    Uruguay issues Swiss franc bonds for the first time

    This placement “reflects the confidence of investors in the institutional soundness of the country,” Oddone argued

    Uruguay issued sovereign bonds in Swiss francs for the first time Thursday, totaling 320 million (about US$400 million) to help finance a US$6 billion fiscal deficit in 2025. The bonds, with five- and ten-year terms, carry an average annual interest rate of 1.33%. Economy Minister Gabriel Oddone highlighted the favorable interest rates and noted that Uruguay was the only Latin American country currently issuing bonds in this currency, tapping into a market of high-quality investors.

  • Thursday, June 26th 2025 - 10:31 UTC

    Paraguayan Air Force receiving brand new aircraft this week

    There will be two other Super Tucanos pending delivery

    The first four Brazilian-built single-engined Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft will arrive in Paraguay this Friday, flown by Paraguayan pilots, trained by the manufacturers, Paraguayan Air Force Chief, Gen. Julio Fullaondo, announced Wednesday.

  • Thursday, June 26th 2025 - 10:17 UTC

    Brazil: Voepass grounded permanently

    Voepass was found to no longer be trustworthy, hence the drastic measure

    Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) revoked the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) of Passaredo Transportes Aéreos, the main company in the Voepass group, after “serious and persistent flaws were identified in the company's Continuous Analysis and Supervision System,” Agencia Brasil reported. In addition, the company was fined R$570,400 (US$102,672).

  • Thursday, June 26th 2025 - 04:41 UTC

    Key Strategies for Speculating on Asset Price Shifts

    Photo: Pexels

    Speculation rattles the markets more than most admit, and yet, it’s somehow always the amateurs who get caught with their hands in the cookie jar while the seasoned players walk away with the whole bakery. The truth? There’s no magic bullet, but the right approach keeps one from being chewed up by volatility. The world of asset price shifts is relentless; prices move for reasons both rational and irrational. Watching a chart tick up and down can seduce even experienced traders into believing there’s a secret pattern hiding just beneath the surface. Spoiler alert: sometimes randomness really is just randomness. Still, certain strategies put the odds at least a little less against anyone daring enough to speculate.

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