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Montevideo, April 28th 2025 - 09:15 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2025 - 10:38 UTC

    Boric unveils strategy to speed up construction of Bioceanic Road Corridor

    “We are going to strengthen and improve the public infrastructure of the corridor,” Boric pledged

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday unveiled his country's plan to speed up the construction of the Bioceanic Road Corridor, a 2,400 km highway linking northern Chile with Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. The initiative includes 22 infrastructure projects to enhance roads, customs, police checkpoints, and ports like Iquique, Mejillones, and Antofagasta.

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Orsi reviews fraud allegations and congratulates Noboa on his win

    Vargas Llosa was a “genius” regardless of his ideology, Orsi also pointed out

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi congratulated Daniel Noboa on his reelection in Ecuador after discussing the fraud allegations with Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin, it was reported in Montevideo. The Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) leader also mourned the passing of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and reviewed the Arazatí Water Project as well as the country's situation regarding soup kitchens and homelessness.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 18:56 UTC

    Bukele becomes first LatAm leader Trump welcomes at White House

    Bukele insisted he does not have the authority to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States

    Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador got together Monday morning at the White House, marking the Central American visitor the first Latin American leader to he hosted by the Republican head of State since his return to office. It was also the first visit by a Salvadoran president since 2014, when Barack Obama welcomed Salvador Sánchez Cerén.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

    A Communist in his younger years, he became a free-trade advocate

    Peruvian writer and former Presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa passed away Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, his son Álvaro announced. He wrote over 20 novels, the first one appearing in 1959. In 2010, he was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa was also a journalist, essayist, and university professor.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Noboa reelected as President of Ecuador

    Noboa celebrated, although González did not acknowledge defeat and spoke of fraud

    Daniel Noboa was reelected president of Ecuador with nearly 56% of the vote against Luisa González's almost 44.2% in Sunday's runoff, the National Electoral Council (CNE) confirmed. It was a rematch of the 2023 runoff in which Noboa prevailed as well.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:46 UTC

    Bolsonaro undergoes long abdominal surgery

    He will remain hospitalized in Brasilia, it was explained

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) underwent a 12-hour surgery Sunday at the Star Hospital in Brasilia to treat a partial intestinal obstruction resulting from the stabbing in the abdomen he suffered during the 2018 campaign. He had been hospitalized since Friday due to severe abdominal pain during a political tour in Natal.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Haiti: New Viv Ansamm attacks reported

    Haiti's crisis looks more serious and neverending by the hour

    Attacks by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition in the city of Kenscoff were reported earlier this past weekend, with five police officers wounded and one missing. The criminal organization also set three official vehicles on fire and stole tactical gear. The perpetrators used assault rifles and bulletproof vests.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:18 UTC

    CFK posts another “Che Milei” diatribe on X

    It is the Argentine people who will pay the price for your decisions, your arrogance, and your surrender, CFK told Milei in her posting on X

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Saturday published on X another issue of her “Che Milei” saga criticizing the incumbent head of State for his arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other credit agencies, foreseeing negative consequences for the country.

  • Saturday, April 12th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Mercosur FMs agree to expand exceptions to CETs

    The meeting was good, albeit tense in some environments

    Southern Common Market (Mercosur) foreign ministers meeting in Buenos Aires on Friday agreed to temporarily expand the National List of Exceptions to the Common External Tariff by up to 50 codes per member state in response to global trade tensions, following US President Donald Trump's barrage of import surcharges.

  • Saturday, April 12th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Lula enacts Reciprocity Law in reaction to Trump's tariffs

    With the new law, Brazil's Camex will have the power to apply proportionate retaliatory measures

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enacted the so-called Reciprocity Law on Friday, whereby the federal government can react whenever countries or economic blocs create measures restricting Brazilian exports, be it in the form of surcharges or objections to the origin of the product. The measure is to be published in Monday's issue of the Diário Oficial da União (Federal Official Gazette).