Politics

Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 10:33 UTC
Uruguay assumes the Brasilia Consensus' rotating presidency

Foreign Ministers Mario Lubetkin of Uruguay and María Gabriela Sommerfeld of Ecuador participated Tuesday at Montevideo's Torre Ejecutiva in the handover ceremony of the Brasilia Consensus' rotating presidency.
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Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 10:27 UTC
Bogotá court orders Uribe's release pending further appeals

A Bogota High Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, thereby revoking Judge Sandra Heredia's 12-year house arrest sentence that Uribe had been serving after being found guilty of bribery and procedural fraud.
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Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 09:47 UTC
Argentine pilots want to launch nationwide strike

Argentina's Airline Pilots Association (APLA) has called for a nationwide strike to protest President Javier Milei's decree 378/2025, which alters working conditions for flight crews.
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Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 08:55 UTC
The Bank of England could learn from the Falklands

By A. S. H. Smyth, (*)
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Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 08:10 UTC
Trump in the Falklands

By Barry Eichengreen (*) - US President Donald Trump’s trade war resembles nothing so much as UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Falklands War in 1982: one side deploys massive force, and the other withdraws with its tail between its legs.
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Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 20:27 UTC
US$600 million treasure discovered in Colombian farm

A farmer in the Colombian region of Antioquía region of Colombia has unearthed an astonishing US$600 million in cash. The money was found buried in rusty metal drums while the rural worker, who remains anonymous for security reasons, was doing some digging to expand his crop area.
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Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 19:48 UTC
Uruguay and Ecuador sign cooperation agreements

Presidents of Ecuador and Yamandú Orsi of Uruguay on Tuesday signed two bilateral agreements in Montevideo, increasing cooperation and intelligence sharing. The understanding involves the two countries' Ministries of Interior and Defense.
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Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 11:18 UTC
Uruguay announces economic measures to boost growth

Uruguay's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has announced a new set of measures to “prioritize” and “streamline” investment to boost growth by making things easier for both national and foreign investors. “There is a political idea of what we want to do,” Minister Gabriel Oddone explained.
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Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:59 UTC
US deploys destroyers off Venezuela in operation against narco-terror groups

The United States will deploy three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers off the coast of Venezuela within the next 36 hours as part of an operation targeting criminal organizations classified as narco-terrorist groups. According to Reuters, the vessels are the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson, all equipped with the Aegis defense system for air, submarine, and surface warfare.
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Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:54 UTC
Brazil: Meta ordered to remove controversial content from platforms

Brazil's Attorney General's Office (FGR) has formally requested that Meta - owner of social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook - immediately remove chatbots that use childlike language and appearances to engage in sexual conversations. These chatbots, created using the “Meta AI Studio” tool, are considered a “concrete risk to the psychological integrity of children and adolescents.”
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