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Montevideo, January 26th 2025 - 09:31 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, January 25th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Fitch downgrades Bolivia's credit rating

    Fitch's pessimistic projections generate unnecessary uncertainty, Bolivian authorities argued

    The international agency Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded Bolivia's status to “CCC-” and warned that corrective measures were needed urgently to avoid a deeper slide. In issuing its grades, Fitch took into account the unavailability of foreign currency and the country's poorly designed economic and fiscal policy.

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  • Saturday, January 25th 2025 - 09:29 UTC

    Moody's improves Argentina's grades

    Lifting exchange rate controls will bring on new challenges for the Libertarian administration

    The international credit rating agency Moody's Friday improved Argentina's long-term foreign and local currency issuer grades from Ca to Caa3 but warned that “there are still significant risks to the country's ability to cover upcoming external debt payments.”

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  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 22:39 UTC

    Trump orders all files regarding JFK, RFK, and MLK murders disclosed

    Trump's executive order rendering children of illegal aliens ineligible for US citizenship is “blatantly unconstitutional,” Seattle Federal Judge John Coughenour said

    US President Donald Trump's executive order issuing spree during his first week in office included the declassification in the interest of transparency of all documents pertaining to the murders of then-President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1962, as well as those of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (RFK) and civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in 1968.

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  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:42 UTC

    Lula and Scheinbaum discuss regional matters over the phone

    Lula invited Sheinbaum over to Brazil to further boost the excellent ties between the two countries

    Progressive Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico discussed Thursday during a telephone conversation the relevance of cultivating “productive relations” with the United States, now once again under the Republican Donald Trump.

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  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Trump reviews his four days in office during WEF speech

    The new Government achieved in less than four days more than other administrations have accomplished in four years, Trump also pointed out

    US President Donald Trump suggested four days into his second term in office that companies should manufacture their products at home or face import tariffs. During a video appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland), the Republican leader insisted his constituency had entrusted him to bring about change and thence his carrot-and-stick approach to private investment.

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  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 06:43 UTC

    Falklands, New Director of Policy, Economy and Corporate Services

    Maeve currently holds the role of Head of Policy and has worked for FIG since 2015, having arrived originally to work as FIG’s Statistician

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Maeve Daly-Llamosa as the new Director of Policy, Economy and Corporate Services.

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  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 23:17 UTC

    Petro and Maduro discuss cooperation in tackling drug trafficking

    It was the first contact between both leftwing leaders after Maduro's questionable Jan. 10 inauguration following the controversial July 28, 2024, election results

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro discussed with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro the possibility of tackling drug trafficking together on the border between the two countries, particularly “in the Catatumbo River” where a joint action plan is under development given the security crisis stemming from activities by the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.

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  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 22:14 UTC

    Rubio ratifies US recognition of González Urrutia as Venezuela's true President

    Rubio reaffirmed the United States' support for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela

    Venezuelan opposition leaders were told by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Donald Trump administration would hold Edmundo González Urrutia as the truthful President of Venezuela following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won based only on a declaration from the National Electoral Council (CNE) later upheld by the Supreme Court, both of which are under the control of the Chavista regime.

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  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 21:45 UTC

    Milei targets progressiveness during Davos speech

    “Wokeism” has “the manifest desire to destroy criticism and dissent,” Milei warned

    Argentine President Javier Milei said Thursday during his appearance before the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland) that “we must eliminate the virus of woke ideology” that has been subverting the Western civilization's values over the past few years. Milei likened this “aberrant ideology” to a “virus” and insisted it was “the cancer that must be removed” if the “golden age” was to prevail.

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  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 10:22 UTC

    IMF mission arrives in Buenos Aires to discuss US$ 11 billion loan

    The IMF mission is headed by Western Hemisphere Department Deputy Director Luis Cubeddu

    An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team landed in Buenos Aires Wednesday to discuss Argentina's eligibility for a US$ 11 billion new loan to make up for the South American country's currently negative reserves. The mission is headed by the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department Deputy Director Luis Cubeddu.

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