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Montevideo, July 15th 2025 - 00:13 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, July 14th 2025 - 06:51 UTC

    Falklands, BFSAI conducting Exercise Cape Bayonet with 3 PARA until 25th July

    The veterans joined the RIC over the anniversary of a highly significant time in the Parachute Regiment’s rich history. (Photo credit: Cpl Williams, RAF Photographer).

    The British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, have informed the Falkland Islands community that they are currently conducting Exercise Cape Bayonet, which is scheduled to last until Friday 25th July.

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  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:33 UTC

    Flávio Bolsonaro agrees US tariffs are unfair, says solution is broad amnesty

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro insisted a blanket amnesty would reverse Trump's measure

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, has acknowledged that the 50% tariffs imposed by the US Republican Government of Donald Trump on Brazilian exports were “unfair” to his country's productive sector. However, in an interview with Globonews, he argued that the solution was a return to “normality,” which he defined as granting a broad amnesty for those involved in the Jan. 8, 2023, riots in Brasilia.

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  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Boric enacts Chile's new Fisheries Law

    “Wealth belongs to those who produce it, and that wealth should not remain in the hands of large companies,” Boric insisted

    Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font enacted Chile's new Fisheries Division Law (Law 21,752) on Thursday, a landmark piece of legislation that rebalances fishing quotas in favor of the artisanal sector. The signing into law follows its successful passage through the Constitutional Court. Joining Boric at the ceremony were Economy Minister Nicolás Grau and Undersecretary of Fisheries Julio Salas.

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  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Taiwan and Paraguay celebrate 68 years of diplomatic ties

    The foreign ministers agreed that their bilateral cooperation is set to expand

    Foreign Ministers Rubén Ramírez Lezcano of Paraguay and Lin Chia-lung of Taiwan on Friday celebrated in Asunción 68 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations. The visiting mission includes a delegation of over 30 Taiwanese business leaders from strategic sectors such as semiconductors, information and communications technology (ICT), smart transportation, smart agriculture and livestock, construction and building, as well as high-tech smart textiles.

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  • Saturday, July 12th 2025 - 10:14 UTC

    Paraguay's foreign trade plummets in first half of 2025

    Positive contributions from corn, wheat, and rice were not enough to offset the soybean downturn

    Paraguay's total exports in the first half of 2025 saw a 7.6% decline, totaling US$7.83 billion compared to US$8.47 billion in the same period last year, according to a report from the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) released Friday in Asunción, which thus showed a trade deficit of US697.9 million, a significant shift from the US$469 million surplus recorded in June 2024.

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  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:37 UTC

    Brazil maneuvering to resume chicken exports to Europe

    Brazil reportedly stopped exporting about 123,000 tons of chicken due to the avian flu detection

    Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Fávaro held a videoconference with EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, this week to discuss lifting restrictions on the Brazilian chicken meat exports imposed after an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial farm in Montenegro, Río Grande do Sul, in May.

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  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:17 UTC

    Bolivia deploys door-to-door measles vaccination teams

    Brigades go door to door to stop the measles outbreak before classes restart

    Bolivian authorities, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), launched a door-to-door vaccination campaign this week to curb the measles outbreak, of which so far 98 cases have been confirmed.

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  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:08 UTC

    French farmers parade cows in front of the Brazilian Embassy

    The demonstrators were reacting to statements from President Emmanuel Macron

    Some 100 French farmers and ranchers paraded Wednesday in front of the Brazilian Embassy in Paris with Charolais cows and T-shirts reading “Beef producers furious!” as the National Beef Federation (Federation Nationale Bovine - FNB) demonstrated its strong opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

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  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Brazil to look elsewhere in light of Trump's tariffs

    Fávaro said alternatives were being sought for profuts that would become unaffordable to US consumers

    Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) has been entrusted with seeking new markets to replace placements that may be affected by US President Donald Trump's 50% tariffs, in a move to minimize the measure's impact, Minister Carlos Fávaro confirmed Thursday.

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  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Bolsonaro respects and admires Trump's government

    Bolsonaro claimed that such a measure would not have occurred under his administration

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro expressed his “respect and admiration for the United States Government” after Wednesday's announcement that all Brazilian exports would be slapped with a 50% tariff. The retired Army captain insisted that he took the news “with a sense of responsibility.”

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