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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 17:56 UTC

Latin America

  • Wednesday, May 28th 2025 - 10:56 UTC

    Peru joins railroad project to Chancay to boost Chinese trade

    Viana insisted that the railroad was an alternative to the Panama Canal

    Peru has joined Brazil and China's transcontinental railroad project to connect the Pacific coast with the Atlantic Ocean across South America, offering an alternative trade route to the Panama Canal. This railway aims to facilitate the transport of Brazilian goods, such as soybeans and minerals, to China’s Shanghai port via Peru’s Chancay port, reducing maritime trade distance by about 10,000 km and easing reliance on Brazil’s congested Santos port.

  • Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 15:36 UTC

    Messi and Suárez launch new football club in Uruguay: Deportivo LSM

    Deportivo LSM will begin its journey in the Segunda División Amateur, the fourth tier of Uruguayan football.

    Football legends Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez have announced the creation of their own football club in Uruguay, “Deportivo LSM,” which will compete in the country’s official league system under the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) starting in 2026.

  • Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 10:22 UTC

    Bolivia's National Action Party restored legal status

    PAN-Bol has now until June 6 to register its candidates. Shall it include Evo Morales?

    Bolivia's National Action Party (PAN-Bol) has successfully reversed the cancellation of its legal status after a favorable ruling by the Fourth Constitutional Chamber of the Departmental Court of Justice of La Paz on Monday, which instructed the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to issue a new resolution.

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Noboa sworn in for second term as President of Ecuador

    Noboa faces challenges like violence and unemployment in his second term

    Ecuador's re-elected President Daniel Noboa was sworn in for a new four-year term in Quito, alongside Vice President Maria Jose Pinto. In his inaugural speech, Noboa pledged to advance steadily, “implementing each and every one of the necessary reforms to build a State that is not a burden to society”, in addition to putting “a solid foundation for the growth of employment, investment.”

  • Monday, May 26th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Chavista candidate voted Governor of Essequibo amid poor turnout

    Neil Jesús Villamizar Sánchez was elected as the first governor of Guayana Essequiba

    Venezuela Sunday held regional and legislative elections with a voter turnout of 42.63%. The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), led by Nicolás Maduro, secured 23 out of 24 governorships, including the newly claimed 160,000 square-kilometer oil-rich Guayana Essequiba, and an 82.68% share of votes for the National Assembly, projecting an absolute legislative majority. The opposition won only the Cojedes governorship. Henrique Capriles secured a legislative seat for the opposition.

  • Saturday, May 24th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    Bolivian gov't announces measures to curb ongoing crisis

    In a press conference at the Casa Grande del Pueblo, Arce and five cabinet members presented the measures

    The Bolivian Government of President Luis Arce Catacora announced Friday a series of measures to tackle the rise in food prices, fuel shortages, dollar scarcity, and the declining purchasing power of the Bolivian currency.

  • Friday, May 23rd 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    New fuel shortage hits Bolivia due to logistical delays

    Things worsened after some tanker trucks staged a strike to demand higher freight rates

    Bolivia is grappling with a severe fuel crisis, marked by long vehicle lines at petrol stations in major cities like La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, caused by a partial strike by tanker transporters demanding higher freight rates and logistical delays at the Chilean port of Arica.

  • Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 20:19 UTC

    Bolivian elections: Other candidates face registration problems after Evo

    Andrónico Rodríguez has called for public vigilance to protect democratic participation

    Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has suspended the approval of Senate Speaker Andrónico Rodríguez's candidacy as well as those of other would-be contenders on behalf of the leftist Alianza Popular movement, pending a constitutional ruling on the legal status of the Third System Movement (MTS), a party within the alliance.

  • Wednesday, May 21st 2025 - 15:40 UTC

    Israel fires warning shots at diplomats in West Bank; Uruguayan ambassador part of delegation

    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later issued a statement saying the diplomats had “deviated from the approved route” and that soldiers fired “warning shots” to keep them away

    A group of 21 diplomats from various countries came under fire Tuesday during an official visit to the Palestinian city of Jenin in the West Bank. The Israeli army fired warning shots at the delegation, which included Uruguayan Ambassador to Palestine Fernando Arroyo, who was unharmed in the incident.

  • Tuesday, May 20th 2025 - 22:47 UTC

    Bolivia: Evo unable to register candidacy for August elections

    Morales' supporters announced protests for the coming days

    Although former Bolivian President Evo Morales claimed to have registered his candidacy for the Aug. 17 elections, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) disqualified such an application because neither party under which he filed his papers (Evo Pueblo or Pan-Bol) had legal status.