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Montevideo, November 5th 2025 - 08:37 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 09:25 UTC

    TikToker rattles Bolivia's financial system

    Villafuerte has some 70,000 followers

    Twenty-one-year-old TikToker Juan Carlos Villafuerte was arrested for allegedly damaging the credibility of Bolivia's system after the Financial System Supervisory Authority (ASFI) filed a complaint against him for creating videos that claimed “banks in Bolivia are in danger” and advised people to withdraw their savings.

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 09:00 UTC

    Uruguayan court sentences Iranian traveling on a fake passport to 3 months in jail

    In a separate court ruling, two former military officers were convicted of crimes against humanity

    An Iranian citizen has been sentenced to three months in prison in Uruguay for entering the country with a fake Israeli passport. The man had previously been deported from El Salvador, where he also used the forged document.

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 08:48 UTC

    Group of Friends of Haiti discusses next steps at OAS

    Ramdin urged the international community to support Haiti through its security and humanitarian crisis

    Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Albert Ramdin convened the first meeting of the Group of Friends of Haiti in Washington DC on Wednesday. This group serves as an informal platform for information sharing among stakeholders regarding the evolving situation in Haiti, aiming to improve coordination and alignment of efforts.

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 08:23 UTC

    Uruguay investigates youth detention center over alleged torture and abuse

    Uruguay’s human rights institution confirmed that it found “violations of the rights of youth,” especially regarding interpersonal violence, prolonged confinement, and inadequate infrastructure

    Two deputy directors of the Centro Las Piedras—a facility within Uruguay’s juvenile justice system—have been removed from their posts following serious allegations of violence and potential torture against adolescents in custody, Búsqueda weekly reported.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 20:55 UTC

    US imposes sanctions on STF Judge De Moraes

    The US Treasury Department “will continue to hold accountable those who threaten US interests and the freedoms of our citizens,” Bessent said

    The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday imposed a series of sanctions against Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes, whom the agency accuses believes to have violated freedom of expression through “arbitrary arrests” in the attempted coup trial and with his decisions regarding US social media companies.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 10:51 UTC

    Uruguay reverts to previous passport version after all

    The decision was made after Germany and France needed “more time” to evaluate the case, leaving travelers in a limbo

    Uruguay's Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that they are reverting to the previous version of the national passport, effective August 1. This decision comes after the new passport format, introduced on April 16, faced difficulties with long-stay visa approvals in several countries, notably Germany and France.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

    Zambelli arrested in Italy, pending extradition to Brazil

    Zambelli is a staunch supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who claims persecution from the STF

    Italian authorities in Rome Tuesday arrested Carla Zambelli, a far-right Brazilian congresswoman and staunch supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro. She had fled to Italy in May after being sentenced to ten years in prison in the South American country.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 10:05 UTC

    Products not grown in US might have zero tariffs, Lutnick hints

    “Coffee and cocoa could be other examples,” Lutnick said

    Amid the uproar surrounding the 50% tariffs on Brazilian products to be imported by the US administration of President Donald Trump, coffee producers saw some light at the end of the tunnel Tuesday when US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in an interview with US network CNBC that some products not grown in the country could enter the United States without import tariffs.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

    Chile's Central Bank lowers basic interest rates

    The Central Bank also highlighted an increase in the unemployment rate

    Chile's Central Bank Council unanimously decided Tuesday to cut its monetary policy interest rate (TPM) by 25 basis points to 4.75%. This is the first reduction this year, bringing the rate to its lowest level since January 2022, after it had been held at 5% since December 2024.

  • Wednesday, July 30th 2025 - 09:11 UTC

    US gov't official calls for release of all of Venezuela's political prisoners

    Molano urged international cooperation to pressure “Maduro's dictatorship” to release all political prisoners

    The US government of President Donald Trump publicly demanded the release of Argentine National Border Guard Corporal Nahuel Gallo, who has been detained in Venezuela since December 8, 2024, on accusations of espionage.