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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 17:12 UTC

Politics

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Brazil granting ID to household pets

    Animals used in agricultural production need not be registered

    While the United States still debates whether to implement a voter ID mechanism, Brazilian household pets will soon be eligible for the Animal ID card free of charge as the National Register of Domestic Animals is entering its final testing phase, Agencia Brasil reported this week. The Environment Ministry said the tool can be accessed through the Gov.br website.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

    IMF approves US$245 million disbursement for Paraguay

    The IMF found that economic activity in Paraguay “continues to be dynamic.”

    After concluding the fourth review of the Policy Coordination Instrument (PCI) with Paraguay as well as the second one on the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (SRS), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a disbursement of US$186.28 million in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) representing nearly US$ 245 million to help the South American country's green energy matrix expansion.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 09:55 UTC

    Paraguay passes tougher law on child abuse

    “Violence against our children will not be tolerated under any circumstances,” Peña underlined

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña signed into law Thursday a new bill providing for harsher jail penalties for sexual abusers of children and adolescents to protect the integrity of victims, it was explained.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Topolansky under investigation for false testimony in crimes against humanity cases

    Topolansky linked her comments to cases in Argentina and offered more information to the collective if they deemed it necessary

    The former vice-president of Uruguay, Lucía Topolansky, will be investigated by prosecutor Eliana Travers after her statements about alleged false testimonies in cases of crimes against humanity during the civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay. Topolansky's comments, made in the book “Los indomables” by journalist Pablo Cohen, generated widespread controversy, as she suggested that some statements in these cases would have been fabricated.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 22:21 UTC

    Former Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela accused of treason

    The Security Ministry said Laborde was a collaborator of Maduro's Chavista regime

    Argentia's Security Minister Thursday filed criminal charges for treason against former Ambassador to Venezuela Oscar Laborde for meddling before the Bolivarian regime in the case of Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) non-commissioned officer Nahuel Gallo who was apprehended by Caracas and accused of espionage. Signing the documents was Security Ministry's Chief Legal Counselor Fernando Soto.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    Paraguay: Peña backs official who cut ties with DEA and backtracked

    “We are in communication with Trump's transition team,” Peña stressed

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña insisted that Jalil Rachid should not resign as head of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) despite sending a note to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stopping all cooperation and then recanting after finding out an agreement dating back to 2022 was in force.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

    Russian diplomats in Buenos Aires invoke immunity to skip breathalyzer tests

    Unaware of the concept of “diplomatic immunity,” the Buenos Aires City Traffic Police threatened to embargo the vehicles if the drivers did not acquiesce to testing

    The Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires filed a protest Wednesday before the Argentine Government of President Javier Milei after traffic police tried the test three members of the diplomatic mission for alcohol.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Ex IMF managing director to prison for the second time on tax fraud and corruption

    Rato also served as Spanish deputy prime minister and economy minister in Jose Maria Aznar's Popular Party (PP), conservative government from 1996 to 2004

    The former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Spain's Conservative deputy prime minister, Rodrigo Rato was sentenced on Friday to four years and nine months in prison by the Madrid Provincial Court.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:20 UTC

    Brazilian authorities close car manufacturing plant due to “forced labor”

    Production of BYD vehicles may not resume until the situation is straightened out

    Brazilian authorities reported this week that some 163 workers had been rescued from slave-like conditions at the BYD plant in Camaçari, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Salvador, in the state of Bahia.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 09:09 UTC

    At least 29 survivors reported in Brazilian-built airliner crash

    There were contradicting versions as to the cause of the accident

    A Brazilian-built Embraer E-190 jet of Azerbaijan Airlines registration 4K-AZ65 carrying 67 people crashed near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau Wednesday, killing 38 people, while 29 others, including three children, were rushed to emergency services for treatment. The passengers included 37 Azerbaijanis, 16 Russians, 6 Kazakhstanis, and 3 Kyrgyzstan nationals.