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Montevideo, June 3rd 2025 - 08:32 UTC

Latin America

  • Saturday, January 25th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Fitch downgrades Bolivia's credit rating

    Fitch's pessimistic projections generate unnecessary uncertainty, Bolivian authorities argued

    The international agency Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded Bolivia's status to “CCC-” and warned that corrective measures were needed urgently to avoid a deeper slide. In issuing its grades, Fitch took into account the unavailability of foreign currency and the country's poorly designed economic and fiscal policy.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:42 UTC

    Lula and Scheinbaum discuss regional matters over the phone

    Lula invited Sheinbaum over to Brazil to further boost the excellent ties between the two countries

    Progressive Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico discussed Thursday during a telephone conversation the relevance of cultivating “productive relations” with the United States, now once again under the Republican Donald Trump.

  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 23:17 UTC

    Petro and Maduro discuss cooperation in tackling drug trafficking

    It was the first contact between both leftwing leaders after Maduro's questionable Jan. 10 inauguration following the controversial July 28, 2024, election results

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro discussed with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro the possibility of tackling drug trafficking together on the border between the two countries, particularly “in the Catatumbo River” where a joint action plan is under development given the security crisis stemming from activities by the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.

  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 08:44 UTC

    Former Salvadoran President Funes dies in his Nicaraguan exile

    As a journalist, Funes interviewed world leaders such as Felipe González, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

    Former Salvadoran President Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, better known as Mauricio Funes, died Tuesday local time in exile in Nicaragua where Daniel Ortega's Sandinista regime had granted him citizenship, the Health Ministry announced in a statement.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 10:48 UTC

    Cuba back on US list of terrorism-sponsoring nations under Trump

    The Republican head of state placed Cuba among those nations where he had already included it during his first term in office (2017-2021)

    US President Donald Trump added Cuba once again to the list of nations sponsoring terrorism and announced tougher measures against Venezuela's Bolivarian regime which stayed in power past Jan. 10 despite half the world not recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 08:15 UTC

    Colombian company signs partnership with Bolivia's YPFB

    Signing the documents were YPFB's president Armin Dorgathen and Canacol's representative in Bolivia Luis Alberto Pérez

    Bolivia's state-run oil company signed Tuesday a series of agreements with Colombia's Canacol representing an investment of up to US$ 270 million for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation undertakings in the Ovai, Florida Este, Arenales, and Tita-Techi areas, all of them in the department of Santa Cruz.

  • Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 09:39 UTC

    Colombia's Foreign Minister resigns

    Murillo is believed to have electoral plans of his own

    Luis Gilberto Murillo has turned in his resignation as Colombia's Foreign Minister, presumably to pursue an electoral position, it was reported Monday in Bogotá. According to local media, Murillo might be running for president next year. His successor effective Feb. 1 will be President Gustavo Petro's Friday woman and lawyer Laura Sarabia. Also resigning Monday was Transport Minister María Constanza García.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 06:22 UTC

    Evo says Bolivian gov't advised doctors against treating him

    Morales claimed Judge Rocabado overstepped his powers by issuing an arrest warrant despite his medical condition

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted his weekly broadcast show from home Sunday and insisted he was banned from seeking proper medical help for his condition. Last week, an arrest warrant was issued against him for contempt of court after he dodged two subpoenas citing health issues.

  • Saturday, January 18th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Arrest warrant issued against Evo Morales for not showing up in court

    Morales submitted a doctor's note saying he had bronchopneumonia

    An arrest warrant has been issued against former Bolivian President Evo Morales after the latter failed to turn up when summoned by the Judiciary citing health problems. He is under investigation for the alleged trafficking of a minor with her parents' consent. He is also believed to have fathered a child as a result of that intercourse.

  • Friday, January 17th 2025 - 09:31 UTC

    Former Latin American foreign ministers stand up for international law

    Uruguay's Rodolfo Nin Novoa was among the signatories

    A total of 38 former Latin American foreign ministers published Thursday a Manifesto warning about “the collapse of the international order” established after World War ii and insisted on the region's need to recover a leading role in global affairs.