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Montevideo, November 21st 2025 - 09:54 UTC

Latin America

  • Monday, August 28th 2023 - 09:00 UTC

    BRICS is the future, Bolivian FM says

    Mayta underlined that the current BRICS countries do not base their economies on financial speculation

    Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta insisted Sunndnay that his country was looking out “to the future and the future is BRICS,” the bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, to which six new members including Argentina will join effective Jan. 1, 2024.

  • Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 15:41 UTC

    Guyana: Former slave-owning British PM family apologies not enough

    Charles Gladstone called on the United Kingdom to hold talks with CARICOM on reparations (AP Photo)

    Activists were not entirely satisfied with Friday's apology speech by a descendant of former British Prime Minister and slave exploiter/trader William Gladstone at the University of Guyana and insisted reparations worth around US$ 1.2 trillion were due as messages along the lines of “our ancestors deserve real justice” became rife.

  • Sunday, August 27th 2023 - 00:37 UTC

    Brighter future ahead for businesses in Latin America

    Paraguay is the country expected to grow the most this year by the FGV

    According to a study by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) released Thursday, businesses in Latin America are up to their best level in two years after hitting unusual lows from the third quarter of 2022 through the second quarter of 2023.

  • Saturday, August 26th 2023 - 23:24 UTC

    Argentina set out to replace gas imports from Bolivia

    Yearly savings would amount to around US$ 1.96 billion, Royon's agency explained.

    Argentine authorities Friday launched the bidding process for the reversal of a pipeline so far used to import gas from bordering Bolivia in a move to supply the country's northern provinces with Vaca Muerta's output, it was reported.

  • Wednesday, August 23rd 2023 - 07:30 UTC

    Panama Canal limits transit of vessels because of a severe drought

    Both entrances to the canal, on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, are now speckled with vessels stranded for more than 20 days

    On both sides of the Panama Canal, fleets of ships find themselves immobilized, delayed by weeks as waterway authorities have slowed traffic to conserve water amid a severe drought. A report from the Brazilian news agency O-Globo gives a detailed picture of what is happening.

  • Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 - 10:29 UTC

    Ecuador voted to ban mining and oil drilling in an Amazon national park

    With over 90% of the ballots counted, some six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected the oil exploration in Block 44, situated within Yasuni National Park

    The Ecuadorian electorate voted on Sunday against oil drilling, according to results of an election-day referendum published early Monday. Voters were asked whether to ban mining in the highlands and further oil drilling in Yasuni National Park in the Amazon.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 11:30 UTC

    Elections in Ecuador: González and Noboa advance to runoff

    González urged her followers to prevent Noboa from becoming “Lasso 2.0”

    Luisa González of former President Rafel Correa's Revolucion Ciudadana (RC) was the most-voted candidate in Sunday's elections in Ecuador marred by last week's murder of Movimiento Construye's (MC) hopeful Fernando Villavicencio.

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 11:25 UTC

    Uruguayan-born Bernardo Arévalo de León wins Guatemalan elections

    Arévalo de León was born in Montevideo when his father and former president went into exile

    Uruguayan-born Bernardo Arévalo de León of the center-left Semilla (Seed) Movement, a sociologist with a PhD in Philosophy and also the son of a former head of state, will become Guatemala's next president after Sunday's landslide at the runoff victory over former First Lady Sandra Torres Casanova of the National Unity of Hope (UNE)

  • Monday, August 21st 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Cuban leader reaffirms support for Angola

    Díaz-Canel's next stop will be the BRICS Summit in South Africa

    Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ratified this weekend during an official trip to Luanda his country's support to the Angolan government, it was reported.

  • Saturday, August 19th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

    Ecuador: 3 people arrested in Manta mayor murder probe

    “There is a fourth person” involved in the crime, but he is already in jail, Zapata explained

    Ecuadorian authorities Friday announced the arrest of three people suspected of being involved in the July 23 murder of Manta Mayor Agustín Intriago and a young woman when gunmen opened fire at a municipal construction site.