Mercosur

• Thursday, October 29th 2026 - 01:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro’s exit via Argentina further strains relations between Milei and Lula

  

  Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s transit through Argentina, after he left Brazil despite a court ban and flew to Miami from Puerto Iguazú following his election defeat, has opened a new front in the strained relationship between the governments of Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, while the Casa Rosada maintains its refusal to congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election.

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• Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 03:20 UTC

  Argentina: opposition asks Milei to clarify whether Bolsonaro left Brazil through the country

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers on Tuesday demanded that Javier Milei’s government report whether Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who left Brazil despite a court ban and travelled to the United States after his election defeat, crossed through Argentine territory. The National Migration Directorate said it has no record of the senator entering the country.

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• Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:05 UTC

  Milei stays silent on Lula’s victory as Kast and Peña congratulate him

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei had not congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his re-election in Brazil by Monday, unlike other right-wing South American leaders such as Chile’s José Antonio Kast, Paraguay’s Santiago Peña and Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz. Milei, who publicly backed Senator Flávio Bolsonaro during the campaign, met his cabinet at the Casa Rosada first thing in the morning.

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• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 19:14 UTC

  Paraguay’s president travels to Washington and will meet the CIA director

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña travelled to Washington on Wednesday for a brief visit that includes a meeting with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe and a keynote address at the annual gala of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 15:29 UTC

  Milei calls Lula a “leftist thief” and says he hopes he will not “steal” Brazil’s election

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei attacked his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva again on Tuesday, accusing him of a “dirty campaign” and saying he hoped Lula would not try to “steal” Sunday’s presidential runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, whom Milei has publicly backed.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 14:52 UTC

  Lubetkin warns Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”

  

  Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has warned Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”, in response to his criticism of the bloc during the campaign for the October 25 runoff. In the same interview, with the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, he said Uruguay would not restore diplomatic relations with Venezuela while Delcy Rodríguez governs.

• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 22:09 UTC

  Iguazú Falls closed as the river’s flow tops 12,000 cubic metres per second

  

  Iguazú National Park, in Argentina’s Misiones province, closed access to the falls’ walkways on Monday because of an exceptional rise in the Iguazú River, whose flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second. The flood is part of an episode of heavy rainfall linked to El Niño that has also caused the Uruguay River to burst its banks, with evacuations on both sides.

• Sunday, October 4th 2026 - 08:57 UTC

  Trump declines to back Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro as Brazil votes

  

  US President Donald Trump has not endorsed either of the two leading candidates in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, unlike in recent elections in Honduras, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Costa Rica.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:30 UTC

  Latin American airports will need US$178 billion to nearly double their traffic

  

  Airports in Latin America and the Caribbean will require investment of around US$178 billion over the next thirty years to handle demand that would rise from 809 million passengers this year to around 1.5 billion in 2045, according to projections presented in Lima at the annual assembly of Airports Council International.

• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC

  “The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.