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Montevideo, August 20th 2025 - 19:55 UTC

Latin America

  • Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 10:28 UTC

    Bolivian mine landslide leaves 5 dead

    Only two of the victims have already been identified

    Five men died after being buried alive by a landslide at the state-owned Amayapampa gold mine in Potosí, Bolivia. The victims, who were not regular employees, had official permits to extract residual ore.

  • Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 07:16 UTC

    Uribe lashes out against court ruling: “They want to destroy a voice of democratic opposition”

    Uribe also defended his lawyer Diego Cadena, who was convicted of offering judicial benefits in exchange for favorable testimony

    Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez appealed on Friday the ruling that sentenced him to 12 years of house arrest for procedural fraud and witness tampering, delivering a fiery speech in which he described the decision as a “political move” aimed at silencing “democratic opposition.”

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 09:25 UTC

    TikToker rattles Bolivia's financial system

    Villafuerte has some 70,000 followers

    Twenty-one-year-old TikToker Juan Carlos Villafuerte was arrested for allegedly damaging the credibility of Bolivia's system after the Financial System Supervisory Authority (ASFI) filed a complaint against him for creating videos that claimed “banks in Bolivia are in danger” and advised people to withdraw their savings.

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 08:48 UTC

    Group of Friends of Haiti discusses next steps at OAS

    Ramdin urged the international community to support Haiti through its security and humanitarian crisis

    Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Albert Ramdin convened the first meeting of the Group of Friends of Haiti in Washington DC on Wednesday. This group serves as an informal platform for information sharing among stakeholders regarding the evolving situation in Haiti, aiming to improve coordination and alignment of efforts.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 10:05 UTC

    Products not grown in US might have zero tariffs, Lutnick hints

    “Coffee and cocoa could be other examples,” Lutnick said

    Amid the uproar surrounding the 50% tariffs on Brazilian products to be imported by the US administration of President Donald Trump, coffee producers saw some light at the end of the tunnel Tuesday when US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in an interview with US network CNBC that some products not grown in the country could enter the United States without import tariffs.

  • Tuesday, July 29th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    HSBC sells out operations in Uruguay to leading Brazilian bank

    BTG Pactual is already present in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina

    Brazilian bank BTG Pactual has acquired the Uruguayan operations of British bank HSBC for US$175 million, marking BTG Pactual's entry into Uruguay and HSBC's exit from the market as part of its global restructuring strategy. The deal, announced on Monday, includes both equity and additional capital instruments and is subject to regulatory approvals.

  • Tuesday, July 29th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    World leaders express solidarity with Uribe

    Uribe's sentence is to be announced on Friday, Aug. 1

    Many rightwing leaders expressed their solidarity with former Colombian President Álvaro Urive (73) after he was convicted of bribery and procedural fraud by a Bogotá court earlier Monday.

  • Tuesday, July 29th 2025 - 01:25 UTC

    Bogotá court finds Uribe guilty of bribery

    The rightwing leader became the first former head of State ever to be convicted

    Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez was found guilty Monday of witness tampering and procedural fraud, making him the first former head of state in the country to be convicted of a crime. The 73-year-old right-wing politician, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was accused of attempting to bribe and pressure imprisoned paramilitaries to retract or alter their testimonies linking him to illegal armed groups.

  • Monday, July 28th 2025 - 19:28 UTC

    Honduras: Teleworking and mask mandates extended

    The measures came into effect last Thursday on a temporary basis

    Honduras has extended teleworking for public institutions and virtual classes until Aug. due to a surge in respiratory illnesses, including the detection of highly contagious Omicron XFG Covid-19 variants. The government has also made mask-wearing mandatory in various enclosed public spaces such as hospitals, airports, shopping centers, and public transport.

  • Monday, July 28th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Milei tells SRA his plans include FTA with US despite Mercosur

    Milei wants Argentina to reenter the world economy as a major trading player

    During his speech at the Argentina Rural Society's (SRA) Annual Exhibition in Buenos Aires, President Javier Milei emphasized his government’s first-year achievements, ongoing reforms, and vision for the future. Among other issues, Milei insisted that his government was seeking an FTA with the United States, circumventing Mercosur constraints.