Politics

• Tuesday, May 6th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

  Bolsonaro discharged from hospital

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, three weeks after undergoing complex abdominal surgery for an intestinal blockage stemming from the 2018 stabbing during his electoral campaign. He has been hospitalized several times since then, undergoing up to 6 surgeries. Doctors described his most recent procedure as the most complicated.

• Tuesday, May 6th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

  Márcia Lopes becomes Brazil's new Minister of Women

  

  Márcia Lopes has been appointed as the new Minister for Women in Brazil, succeeding Cida Gonçalves. Upon taking office, she emphasized President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's vision of making women feel happier nationwide.

• Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

  Argentina: US SOUTHCOM Chief passes through – consequences to be seen shortly?

  

  Argentine nationalist sectors are concerned that US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Chief Admiral Alvin Holsey's recent visit could signal the beginning of a sovereignty handover to Washington, which President Javier Milei is believed to favor.

• Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:46 UTC

  Paraguay's BCP announces overoptimistic GDP projection

  

  Despite many experts believing otherwise, Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) has raised its GDP growth projection for 2025 from 3.8% to 4% amid geopolitical tensions and potential trade wars. BCP President Carlos Carvallo defended the adjustment, citing strong economic performance and advanced data showing better-than-expected dynamics in several sectors, except agriculture, which was impacted by drought-affected soybean production.

• Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

  Nicaragua to leave UNESCO to deepen absence of press freedom

  

  Nicaragua announced it would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), effective Dec. 31, 2026, after it granted the 2025 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to the opposition newspaper La Prensa. The regime of President Daniel Ortega said the accolade was “unacceptable” and accused the publication of promoting violence and fostering anti-Nicaraguan values.

• Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

  Trump wants Alcatraz reopened as a prison, not a tourist attraction

  

  US President Donald Trump announced this weekend plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison on an island near San Francisco, which closed in 1963. The Republican leader intends to use the facility to house America’s “most violent” criminals, including repeat offenders and potentially undocumented immigrants with alleged criminal records. He directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and FBI to execute this plan, emphasizing it as a symbol of “Law, Order, and Justice.”

• Monday, May 5th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

  Chile: Presidential candidate Tohá dating Minister Marcel

  

  Former Chilean Interior Minister and presidential hopeful on behalf of the Democratic Socialism coalition, Carolina Tohá, admitted during an interview this weekend that she was romantically involved with Finance Minister Mario Marcel. It all began gradually in 2022, during her first year as a Cabinet member, she explained. Their professional bond dates back to the 1990s when Marcel was her boss.

• Monday, May 5th 2025 - 06:11 UTC

  Argentina remembers the sinking of General Belgrano on May 2nd 1982

  

  Last Friday, 2nd May Argentina held a remembrance ceremony of the sinking of ARA General Belgrano, which was the largest single loss of lives during the Falkland Islands conflict of 1982.The ceremony took place at the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base headed by Defense minister Luis Petri and all the commanders of the Argentine armed forces three services.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Mercosur FMs pledge to deepen regional integration amid global trade challenges

  

  Foreign Ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)—namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—gathered Friday in Buenos Aires at the San Martín Palace to advance regional integration amid global trade changes. They focused on eliminating intra-zone trade barriers, strengthening regional value chains, harmonizing regulations, and enhancing physical and digital integration.

• Saturday, May 3rd 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Farage does it again: Reform UK trashes Labour and Tories, becomes main opposition

  

  Populist Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party surged into the lead in local elections across England and grabbed one of Labour’s safest parliamentary seats, trashing Conservatives and becoming head of Britain´s opposition, underline UK media.