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Montevideo, June 7th 2025 - 04:21 UTC

Latin America

  • Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Maduro to grant oil-drilling licenses in Essequibo

    “We will solve this the easy way or we will...” said Maduro

    Although Venezuela does not have since 1899 the effective control of the Essequibo area disputed with Guyana, President Nicolás Maduro announced Tuesday that he planned to grant oil-drilling licenses after Sunday's referendum recognized the South American country's alleged rights over the territory.

  • Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

    Fujimori's release from jail imminent

    Fujimori, 85, would benefit from a humanitarian pardon

    Peru's Constitutional Court (TC) Tuesday issued a warrant for the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, it was reported in Lima.

  • Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    Nicaragua pulls Ambassador from Buenos Aires

    Milei has been openly critical of Ortega's “authoritarian” regime

    The Nicaraguan regime of President Daniel Ortega announced Monday that it was withdrawing its ambassador from Buenos Aires ahead of Javier Milei's inauguration on Dec. 10. Ortega's decision came after statements by Milei criticizing him for alleged human rights violations in the Central American country.

  • Monday, December 4th 2023 - 10:32 UTC

    Former top US diplomat arrested for working for Cuban gov't

    Rocha played key roles in Buenos Aires and La Paz

    The Colombian-born Manuel Rocha, a 73-year-old former diplomat who served as US Ambassador to Bolivia and was also in charge of the Embassy in Buenos Aires between 1997 and 2000, has been arrested in Miami for allegedly working to promote the interests of the Cuban government, it was reported.

  • Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 20:14 UTC

    Venezuela ignores UN ICJ ruling and will go ahead with a referendum on Guyana's Esequibo

    Venezuelan dictator Maduro said in Caracas that Guyana and ExxonMobil, which recently found oil offshore in Essequibo, had been dealt “a historic beating.”

    Venezuela will press on with a weekend referendum over the fate of a vast disputed area in the Esequibo region it claims, disputing neighboring Guyana's jurisdiction, despite the UN International Court of Justice, ICJ, Friday ruling urging restraint in the dispute.

  • Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 10:48 UTC

    Peru: Lower Court rules against releasing Fujimori

    PPK's pardon had already been annulled in 2018

    Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will remain incarcerated following Friday's ruling by a lower court in Ica declaring inadmissible a Constitutional Court decision allowing the reinstatement of the pardon once granted by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (PPK) in 2017.

  • Friday, December 1st 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Peru: IACHR steps in to keep Fujimori in jail

    Will Fujimori be released?

    The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) gave the Peruvian Government one week to explain the situation of former President Alberto Fujimori, who might be released from jail following a Constitutional Court ruling earlier this week, it was reported in Lima.

  • Friday, December 1st 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Will Maduro attempt to take over Guyana's Esequibo? Brazil sends troops to the area

    Uruguay's deployment in Antarctica will deepen cooperation with Spain, Colombia, The Netherlands, Ecuador, Germany, Argentina, the United Kingdom, and Chile, among others

    Brazil announced “intensified defensive actions” along its northern border fearing a possible invasion of Guyana by the dictatorial regime of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. This Friday the UN International Court is expected to halt a referendum, on a disputed area between the two neighbors, which is seen as “an exercise in forced annexation” by Venezuela.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 14:19 UTC

    US grain exports threatened by insufficient draft along the Mississippi for barges

    Barges along the Mississippi must travel to ports carrying less grain because of insufficient draft

    As has happened with the mighty Paraná River in the heartland of South America, with the Amazon in northern South America, and even with the Panama Canal, all of them suffering lack of rainfall to keep basins flowing with sufficient water levels, now has come the turn of the Mississippi with insufficient draft for the vessels and barges involved in transporting US grains.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

    Bolivia's full Mercosur membership greenlighted

    For Brazil, Bolivia's full membership of Mercosur means cheaper energy, Senator Chico Rodrigues explained

    Brazil's Senate Tuesday greenlighted Bolivia's accession to the South American Common Market (Mercosur) as a full member of the bloc. Once President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enacts the bill, the regional alliance will once again consist of five full members -in addition to Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay- as it once happened when Venezuela was admitted but later suspended in 2017 for its undemocratic practices.