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Montevideo, September 22nd 2026 - 03:27 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, July 28th 2026 - 10:30 UTC

    Fujimori's inauguration brings Southern Cone and Andean presidents together in Lima

    Fujimori will become the first woman to reach Peru's presidency through the ballot box

    The presidents of Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, and Honduras arrived in Lima on Monday to attend the handover ceremony at which Keiko Fujimori will assume Peru's presidency for the 2026-2031 term. The leaders of Argentina, Javier Milei; Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi; Panama, José Raúl Mulino; and Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, are also expected to take part.

  • Monday, July 27th 2026 - 22:26 UTC

    Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow his mail-voting restrictions before the midterms

    Trump has repeatedly maintained that mail-in voting facilitates electoral fraud

    The US government on Monday filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court seeking authorization to implement President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, which lower courts have blocked. The request comes 99 days before November's midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress.

  • Monday, July 27th 2026 - 22:20 UTC

    Milei announces Starlink deal to bring satellite internet to 6,000 rural schools

    At the time of the announcement, neither the text of the agreement nor any public statement from the company about its terms had been released

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced an agreement between the National Communications Agency (Enacom) and Starlink to provide satellite connectivity to 6,000 rural schools that currently have poor internet access or no connection at all. The announcement was made on Sunday during the main event of the 138th International Livestock, Agriculture and Industry Exhibition in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, July 27th 2026 - 20:14 UTC

    De la Espriella to close Colombian embassies in 14 countries and cut ties with Cuba and Nicaragua

    The announcement draws a distinction between two situations. With Havana and Managua, the president-elect said there would be “no link whatsoever”

    Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, announced that his government will close the country's embassies in fourteen nations and will not maintain relations with Cuba and Nicaragua, which he described as “tyrannies.” The measure, released on Sunday night in a video on his social media accounts, will take effect from his inauguration on August 7.

  • Monday, July 27th 2026 - 19:59 UTC

    IMF chief says Argentina is in “a strong position” despite missing its fiscal target

    It is Georgieva's first visit to the country since taking over the institution in 2019 and the first by a top IMF official to Buenos Aires in eight years

    International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Monday endorsed the economic program of Javier Milei's government during a visit to Buenos Aires and ruled out that the country will need additional financing from the institution next year, when presidential elections are due. “Argentina today is in a strong position,” she said at a press conference alongside Economy Minister Luis Caputo.

  • Monday, July 27th 2026 - 09:14 UTC

    Mercosur's two largest partners in their worst diplomatic crisis as Brazil recalls its envoy

    Milei defended his government's alignment with the United States and Israel and again criticized Brazil's judiciary for barring him from visiting Jair Bolsonaro

    Brazil on Sunday recalled its ambassador in Buenos Aires, Julio Bitelli, for consultations and summoned Argentina's ambassador in Brasília, Daniel Raimondi, to provide explanations at the Foreign Ministry, in the sharpest diplomatic response between the two countries in years. The measures, taken by Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, follow the speech Argentine President Javier Milei delivered on Saturday in São Paulo at the convention that formalized Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy.

  • Monday, July 27th 2026 - 08:44 UTC

    De la Espriella to make Medellín Colombia's hub for the Trump-backed anti-drug alliance

    “We are going to have the main headquarters of the Shield of the Americas, the agreement we will sign with the United States in the fight against crime and drug trafficking,” the president-elect said

    Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, confirmed that Medellín will host the Colombian headquarters of the Shield of the Americas, the security alliance promoted by US President Donald Trump, and announced he will work part of the time from that city and from Barranquilla. The announcements came during a series of activities in the department of Antioquia, less than two weeks before he takes office on August 7.

  • Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 23:16 UTC

    Cristina Kirchner expands her international legal team to take the Vialidad case abroad

    The legal team is weighing two possible routes

    Former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has added Brazilian jurist Rafael Valim to the team preparing a filing before international bodies to challenge her conviction in the Vialidad case, according to sources close to her cited by the Argentine press. Those sources did not specify when he will begin working or what the first procedural steps will be, and the information has not been officially confirmed by her defense.

  • Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 22:24 UTC

    Milei backs Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy, drawing a rebuke from Brazil's governing party

    Milei said Brazil faces what he called a “Lula risk” and argued the country is heading toward a debt crisis for lack of fiscal adjustment

    Argentine President Javier Milei on Saturday endorsed the presidential candidacy of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro at the Liberal Party (PL) National Convention in São Paulo, in a speech with sharp criticism of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that drew rejection from Brazil's governing party and a response from the judiciary.

  • Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 22:20 UTC

    “Brazil bows to no one”: the official reaction to Milei's speech in São Paulo

    STF President Luiz Edson Fachin signed a note on behalf of the court describing Milei's remarks as a “disrespectful reference” to a justice of the country's highest court

    Brazil's government and the leadership of its judiciary responded on Saturday to the speech by Argentine President Javier Milei at the convention that formalized Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy, in which he sharply criticized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and disparaged a Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice.