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Montevideo, December 13th 2025 - 05:51 UTC

Latin America

  • Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    IDB grants Uruguay US$25 million loan for security improvements

    “This loan is a further demonstration that public safety is a priority for the government,” Valverde said

    Uruguay's Interior Ministry has secured the first disbursement of a US$200 million credit line from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with an initial US$25 million tranche set for execution in 2026 to modernize the country's public security apparatus. The financing supports the government's ambitious 2025–2035 National Public Security Plan, aiming to address longstanding concerns about rising crime and prison conditions.

  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 10:16 UTC

    US drops tariffs on hundreds of Peruvian agricultural products

    Mera highlighted the importance of natural fruit juices in Peru's foreign trade

    The United States has granted a major expansion of Peruvian tariff-free products to enter its market, Foreign Trade and Tourism Teresa Mera confirmed on Monday in Lima.

  • Tuesday, November 18th 2025 - 10:06 UTC

    Bolivia granted US$550-mn loan by CAF

    Bolivia is “a strategic partner,” Díaz-Granados said

    Bolivia was granted a US$550 million loan as part of a program to support the country's economic recovery, the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) said on Monday in a statement from its Southern Region's headquarters in Montevideo.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    “Nays” deliver heavy blow to Ecuador's president

    No US bases on Ecuador's soil after all

    Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa was dealt a heavy blow Sunday as the country voted in a referendum against all four of his proposed Constitutional reforms. With over 75% of the votes counted, the four options championed by Noboa's government were losing by margins ranging from 53% to 61%.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

    Paraguay signs State modernization agreement with El Salvador

    El Salvador's ESIAP, established in 2021 under President Nayib Bukele, is considered a regional benchmark in government innovation

    Paraguay has signed a cooperation agreement with El Salvador to improve its public sector, citing the need for greater efficiency amid global economic instability. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was reached between Paraguay's National Institute of Public Administration (INAPP) and the Higher School of Innovation in Public Administration (ESIAP) of El Salvador.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    New US strike leaves 3 suspected drug traffickers dead

    Holsey said the deployment is being carried out following Trump's directives

    Three suspected drug traffickers were killed in a new attack by United States forces in the Eastern Pacific in international waters, it was announced in Washington. The three individuals were described as “narco-terrorists,” and the mission was said to have been carried out under Operation Southern Spear, the US Southern Command (Southcom) confirmed.

  • Sunday, November 16th 2025 - 07:27 UTC

    Sweden to supply Gripen jets to Colombia; Petro orders bombing of narco-terrorist camp

    Colombian president Gustavo Petro confirmed the agreement reached with Sweden’s Saab aircraft manufacturer to buy 17 Gripen jets at a cost of US$ 4,3 billion

    Colombia signed a US$ 4.3 billion deal to buy Swedish Gripen fighter jets at a time when the country, once a staunch ally of the US, is now ruled by a left leaning government locked in tension with President Donald Trump in his Caribbean battle against what he calls narco-terrorist regimes.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:37 UTC

    Chilean Army NCO wounded by accidental gunshot on Peruvian border post

    The Army confirmed that the victim was “stable, conscious, and out of danger”

    A Chilean Army corporal was wounded Friday afternoon after a conscript soldier accidentally discharged his service weapon at a border observation post near the Peruvian frontier.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Dominican Republic boosts border security as cholera resurges in Haiti

    Cholera was declared eliminated in Haiti in February 2022, but new infections re-emerged months later

    Authorities in the Dominican Republic have upped all border security measures after Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), backed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and other international agencies, admitted to the spreading of a cholera outbreak, it was reported in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola on Friday.

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    US launches “Operation Southern Spear” against narco-terrorists

    US acting on Trump's orders, Hegseth noted

    US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the formal launch of Operation Southern Spear on Thursday, a major military offensive led by the Southern Command (Southcom) aimed at “eliminating narco-terrorists from our hemisphere.”