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Montevideo, December 15th 2025 - 00:45 UTC

Latin America

  • Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:27 UTC

    Maduro finally skips Ibero-American Summit despite announcements otherwise

    Maduro has never attended an Ibero-American Summit since reaching power in 2013

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros canceled his trip to the Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, thus joining Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, and El Salvador's Nayib Bukele as those leaders missing the regional event.

  • Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:24 UTC

    Lula cancels trip to China due to health problems

    Lula was diagnosed with bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia by influenza A

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Saturday that he was canceling his trip to China due to health reasons. The South American leader, who skipped the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo to visit the Asian country instead, was to leave on Saturday and then on Sunday after a rescheduling that failed to meet Lula's recovery.

  • Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:14 UTC

    Presidents Boric and Lacalle hold talks in Santo Domingo

    Boric said he had a good meeting with Lacalle and insisted a common Latin American currency would still take quite a while

    Presidents Gabriel Boric Font of Chile and Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay held a bilateral on the sides of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Among the topics discussed was a joint interest in hosting the 2030 football World Cup. In addition to Boric, Lacalle also held a meeting with Spain's King Felipe VI.

  • Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    XXVIII Ibero-American Summit focused on economic recovery

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be among those not attending the gathering

    Heads of State and Government convened in Santo Domingo for the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit which is focused on post Covid-19 pandemic economic recovery in a world hit by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

  • Friday, March 24th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

    IMF explores possible political scenarios with Uruguayan presidential candidates

    The IMF held individual dialogues with possible candidates: Frente Amplio mayors Carolina Cosse (left) and Yamandú Orsi (right), as well as the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado (center)

    The annual monitoring mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently concluded its nearly two-week visit to Montevideo, providing a positive assessment of Uruguay's economy and the government's reform efforts. However, the mission also gauged the pulse of Uruguay's political landscape ahead of the 2024 elections, weekly newspaper Búsqueda informed.

  • Friday, March 24th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Latin America and Caribbean: 37 million people lack drinking water

    Nearly 50% of the people in the region live in areas of “extreme” and “high” climate vulnerability, the OAS said. Photo: UNICEF

    The Organization of American States (OAS) denounced this week that some 37 million people in the region lacked drinking water and cited climate change as a possible cause.

  • Thursday, March 23rd 2023 - 10:29 UTC

    New team of prosecutors to investigate former Paraguayan President Cartes

    The opposition presidential hopeful has filed some of the cases now brought back to active status

    A new team of prosecutors created this week by Attorney General Emiliano Rolón will investigate former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes for alleged false statements in the Pandora Papers inquiry and for his involvement in the operations of the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 freighter and its 18 crew members.

  • Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Puebla Group supports CFK at Buenos Aires gathering

    “If we have to fight against drug trafficking, first we have to fight against the financial system that launders drug money,” CFK noted

    The Puebla Group Tuesday expressed its support to Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) during a convention at Buenos Aires' Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK).

  • Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    IDB loan for Uruguay to strengthen post-pandemic public policy and fiscal management

    IDB president Illan Goldfajn and Uruguay's Economy and Finance Minister Azucena Arbeleche sign the US$ 145 million loan agreement

    The Inter American Development Bank, IDB, president Illan Goldfajn and Uruguay's Economy and Finance Minister Azucena Arbeleche signed a US$ 145 million loan agreement for the Program to Strengthen Public Policy and Fiscal Management in Response to the Health and Economic Crisis

  • Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:10 UTC

    First shipment of Argentine beef to Mexico takes off

    “The opening of Mexico for Argentine beef is a reaffirmation of the quality and safety of our food,” Bahillo said

    The first shipment of Argentine beef took off from Ezeiza Airport Tuesday on an AeroMexico flight after more than 10 years of negotiations, the South American country's National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) reported. Both countries had agreed on December 2 on the sanitary certificate requirements.