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Montevideo, April 28th 2025 - 00:29 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    Nine Argentine Navy personnel under arrest for possible abusive treatment of sailor

    The sailor had been treated more violently than the rest of the group

    Nine members of the Argentine Navy have been placed under detention following the severe wounds sustained by 21-year-old volunteer Brisa Paez during a riot control training session at a naval base in Vicente Lopez -on the outskirts of Buenos Aires- on April 4.

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  • Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Petro urges all Colombians to be vaccinated against yellow fever in two months

    “Unlike Covid-19, this virus is only transmitted by mosquito, but it is 50% fatal,” Petro warned

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro urged his country's entire population to be vaccinated against yellow fever within two months. He made those remarks after declaring a nationwide emergency given the outbreak of this lethal malady. “We must do it and our health system must guarantee it,” Petro underlined.

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  • Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:17 UTC

    Guyana rejects Chinese diplomat's suggestion of friendly negotiations with Caracas

    China “needs to be principled in its position to respect Guyana's territorial integrity,” Persaud stressed

    Guyana’s Foreign Ministry rejected a statement by China’s Chargé d’Affaires Huang Rui, urging Georgetown and Caracas to resolve their border dispute over the Essequibo region through friendly negotiations, despite stressing that China “never intervenes in the internal affairs of other countries.”

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  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 18:19 UTC

    Epidemic protocols enacted in Argentine Patagonia after 2 hantavirus deaths

    Contagion happens through contact with rodents, but also between humans

    Two deaths from hantavirus in Argentine Patagonia, one in San Martín de los Andes, in the province of Neuquén, and another near Epuyén, in the province of Chubut, have raised alarms among health authorities, leading to the isolation of the victims' close contacts while upping preventive measures.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 17:59 UTC

    Belize to tighten airport security following hijack attempt

    The hijacker was gunned down while the pilot and two passengers were wounded but are stable

    Following an attempted hijacking on a Tropic Air flight last Thursday, where a passenger assaulted the pilot and tried to seize control, Belize is implementing stricter aviation security measures. The flight from Corozal to San Pedro operated by a Tropic Air Cessna Grand Caravan EX, registered as V3-HIG, carrying 15 passengers and 2 crew members, made an emergency landing in Belize City after nearly two hours. The hijacker was gunned down, and the pilot and two passengers were injured but are stable.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Uruguay's housing minister resigns over unpaid taxes on her residence

    Cairo held a meeting with Orsi before announcing her departure

    Cecilia Cairo resigned as Uruguay's Minister of Housing and Territorial Planning on Thursday following controversy over her failure to regularize her house’s construction and update its real estate taxes for at least 20 years, making minimum payments incompatible with the residence's size. President Yamandú Orsi plans to accept her resignation through a formal note on Friday.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Falklands: consultation on ceremonial Governor's uniform, tradition or modernity?

    Her Excellency The Governor, Alison Blake CMG, wearing her ceremonial uniform<br />

    The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly is seeking public views on whether or not to continue the use of the ceremonial uniform of the Governor. This consultation seeks to get a sense of the view of the public in regards to the use of a ceremonial gubernatorial uniform. The response period closes Sunday 20th April.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

    Bukele says he will expand Cecot capacity

    Trump encouraged Bukele to pursue the road of maximum security prisons to tackle gang crime and terrorism

    Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced plans Thursday to double the capacity of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), Latin America's largest prison, which currently holds over 15,000 inmates, including more than 200 migrants deported from the United States.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

    France demanded to pay slavery reparations to Haiti

    The petitioners also requested that France own up to the independence fee it charged 200 years ago

    A large number of Latin American social organizations and personalities, such as Argentine 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, demanded Thursday that France recognize and compensate Haiti for the indemnity it imposed after the country's independence in 1804.

  • Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 18:36 UTC

    Emergency declared in Colombia as yellow fever cases soar

    “The strategy is focused on mass vaccination,” Alfonso explained

    Colombia has declared a state of emergency due to a yellow fever outbreak, with 74 cases and 34 deaths reported. The virus, transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, has spread beyond typical risk areas like the Amazon, Catatumbo, and Chocó, affecting regions such as Tolima, where cases rose from 4 to 22 since September 2024.