Politics

• Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine-born Pope Francis dies aged 88

  

  Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, who would later become known worldwide as Pope Francis since March 13, 2013, died Monday, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, announced from the Casa Santa Marta.

• Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:35 UTC

  Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities

  

  The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.

• Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:31 UTC

  No discharge date yet for hospitalized Bolsonaro

  

  One week after his latest abdominal surgery, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remains in the ICU at DF Star Hospital in Brasilia. He is stable with controlled blood pressure and good clinical progress, but has no set discharge date.

• Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:27 UTC

  Boeing aircraft bound for Chinese carrier returned to manufacturer

  

  A brand-new Boeing 737 MAX intended for China's Xiamen Airlines was returned to the aircraft manufacturer due to escalating trade tensions driven by US President Donald Trump's tariff war. Trump raised tariffs on Chinese imports to 145%, prompting China to impose 125% tariffs on U.S. goods, making delivery of these aircraft financially unviable for Chinese airlines.

• Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

  CAF bond placement to strengthen Paraguayan agribusiness SMEs

  

  The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) issued bonds worth ₲ 125 billion (approximately US$ 15.6 million) in Paraguay’s capital market, with a historic 5-year term and a 6.65% annual coupon rate. This is the longest-term issuance by a multilateral institution in Paraguay’s history and CAF’s third bond issuance in guaraníes, following a prior issuance of ₲ 197.5 billion.

• Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:33 UTC

  At least 11 killed at Ecuador cockfighting event

  

  At least 11 people were killed and nine injured when a group of armed attackers, disguised as soldiers, stormed a cockfighting event in the rural community of La Valencia in the Ecuadorean province of Manabí.

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

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

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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.”

• Friday, April 18th 2025 - 18:19 UTC

  Epidemic protocols enacted in Argentine Patagonia after 2 hantavirus deaths

  

  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.