Politics

Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 22:03 UTC
Bolsonaro denied passport to attend Trump's inauguration

Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes deemed former President Jair Bolsonaro a flight risk and refused to return his passport, which the retired Army captain needed to attend Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington DC on Jan. 20. Bolsonaro is under investigation in various cases and had been ordered to surrender his travel document.
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Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 20:26 UTC
Bolivian Environment Minister sacked amid corruption probe

Alan Lisperguer was sacked Wednesday as Bolivia's Minister of Environment and Water after the Institutional Transparency and Fight against Corruption Vice Ministry detected his involvement in illicit enrichment plus a submission of a false affidavit. The investigation had been triggered by suspicious bank deposits, irregular movements, and a disproportionate increase in Lisperguer's assets. The case was now brought before the Public Prosecutor's Office.
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Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 14:10 UTC
Baroness Chapman in Santiago and Punta Arenas strengthens links with Chile and partnership in Antarctica

Economic growth, trade, climate, science and gender equality were high on the agenda in Santiago and Punta Arenas last week, as UK Minister for Latin America, Baroness Jenny Chapman visited Chile for the first time.
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Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:14 UTC
Argentina recalls Ambassador in Montevideo due to “service reasons”

Ambassador Martín García Moritán has been removed from the Argentine mission in the Uruguayan capital and ordered back to Buenos Aires, according to Presidential Decree 29/2025 published Wednesday in the Official Gazette. The measure was adopted barely over a month before President-elect Yamandú Orsi's March 1 inauguration. The career diplomat had been appointed on Feb. 19, 2024.
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Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:13 UTC
Ceasefire agreed upon between Israel and Hamas

Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas agreed on a 42-day ceasefire to come into effect on Sunday in Gaza, during which some Israeli hostages will be released -dead or alive- in exchange for convicted terrorists serving their sentences in Tel Aviv's correctional system.
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Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 20:44 UTC
Cuba begins releasing prisoners after removal from US terror-sponsoring nations list

Cuban authorities began releasing prisoners Wednesday after Tuesday's decision by the outgoing US Government of President Joseph Biden to remove the Caribbean islands from the list of terrorism-sponsoring nations. Havana also said that, as per a deal brokered by the Vatican, it would be freeing up to 553 detainees, including some of those jailed for participating in anti-government rallies. However, leading Republican politicians in Washington hope to restore Cuba to that infamous category after Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.
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Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:38 UTC
Meta tells Brazil end of fact-checking limited to the US

The end of the fact-checking service provided by Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp owning Meta has only been implemented in the United States (US), at least for the time being. The company made those remarks to Brazil's Federal Attorney General's Office (AGU) checking the company's compliance to the legislation in force in the South American country.
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Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC
Alleged Islamist terrorist arrested in Argentina

Argentine authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of an Islamist individual who was allegedly planning an imminent attack on home soil. “The plan was very advanced, in its last stage...,” Security Minister Patricia Bullrich explained. The suspect posed “a concrete threat to national security,” she also pointed out. “We thwarted his plans before he could cause any harm,” she insisted.
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Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 09:58 UTC
UK’s Labour government to the rescue of the steel industry

The United Kingdom government has formed the Steel Council to advise and implement a new steel strategy, to help revitalize the steel industry and has pledged financial support of steelmakers Tata Steel and British Steel.
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Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 21:37 UTC
Uruguayan lawmakers call Venezuela's gov't “a dictatorship”

Uruguay's Parliament passed Tuesday a unilateral declaration from the ruling Multicolor coalition stating that “no one can deny” there is a dictatorship in Venezuela. The opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) of President-elect Yamandú Orsi, who is to take office on March 1, submitted a text of its own excluding the word “dictatorship” and hence no consensus. However, the FA reckoned that “the Venezuelan government has deepened its distancing from the institutional framework” and that the absence of audits in the electoral process “erodes the legitimacy of the result and questions any democratic transition.”
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