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Montevideo, March 14th 2026 - 22:50 UTC

Politics

  • Wednesday, January 7th 2026 - 10:22 UTC

    Bolsonaro denied hospital trip after fall

    Michelle Bolsonaro fears her husband might have “neurological damage” after a fall that remained untreated for a while

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes denied on Tuesday a request from former President Jair Bolsonaro's legal team to have their client transferred to a medical facility after suffering what his relatives claim was a fall while locked up at the Federal Police's headquarters in Brasilia to serve his 27-year prison sentence for masterminding the Jan. 8, 2023, attempted coup d'état.

  • Wednesday, January 7th 2026 - 10:15 UTC

    Delcy Rodríguez declares week of mourning for fallen Maduro's guardsmen

    The caretaker President insisted her government was the only legal one in Venezuela, despite Trump's assertions otherwise

    Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has declared seven days of national mourning to honor those fallen during the Jan. 3 US military mission to capture former ruler Nicolás Maduro. Rodríguez said the week will be dedicated to the “honor and glory” of the “martyrs.”

  • Wednesday, January 7th 2026 - 09:18 UTC

    Convicted CIA mole serving life with no parole dies in jail

    Ames' story reshaped internal security within the CIA

    Former CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich Ames, whose nearly decade-long betrayal of the United States stood as one of the most catastrophic security breaches in history, died in federal custody on Monday at the age of 84.

  • Wednesday, January 7th 2026 - 08:54 UTC

    Trump sets eyes on Greenland, does not rule out military means

    “Resorting to the US military is always an option available to the commander-in-chief,” Leavitt stated

    White House sources confirmed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was considering “a range of options” to acquire Greenland, explicitly stating that military intervention was not to be ruled out, thus sending shockwaves through the NATO alliance.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:30 UTC

    Conspiracy theories: Why did Maduro fall so quickly?

    Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez have been in secretive talks with Washington for months, The Telegraph suggested

    Rumors, speculation, and conspiracy theories of all kinds are surfacing about who betrayed former Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro so that US troops could abduct him from Caracas and make him stand trial in New York.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:07 UTC

    Gunshots near Caracas' Presidential Palace amounted to nothing important

    Delcy Rodríguez's tenure as caretaking President has been deemed feeble

    Gunshots were heard in Caracas on Monday at around 8 pm near the Miraflores presidential palace, prompting speculations as to the motives behind the havoc. Later unofficial reports pointed to a succession of misunderstandings resulting in a friendly fire clash.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

    Tierra del Fuego in dire straits

    Melella condemned Maduro's capture

    The Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego is grappling with a deepening economic and institutional crisis, amid mounting industrial layoffs, high-level government resignations, and a sharp local debate over the US military intervention in Venezuela.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 09:58 UTC

    Maduro and his wife arraigned in New York court

    Judge Hellerstein ordered that the Maduros receive proper medical attention

    Former Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores formally pleaded not guilty to federal charges of narco-terrorism, cocaine importation, and weapons offenses during their arraignment on Monday in New York before Judge Alvin Hellerstein.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 09:06 UTC

    Uruguay records lowest yearly inflation in over two decades

    BCU President Guillermo Tolosa signaled that the bank may enter an “expansionary phase” in 2026

    Uruguay's inflation last year fell below the Central Bank’s (BCU) official target of 4.5%, hitting 3.65% after December's -0.09%, making President Yamandú Orsi's first annual National Institute of Statistics (INE) report a historic one with figures not recorded since 2001.

  • Tuesday, January 6th 2026 - 08:33 UTC

    Maduro's fall becomes campaign asset for Flávio Bolsonaro

    Brazil's TSE is withholding evidence of Lula's ties with Maduro's regime, which will come out anyway in the US, Eduardo Bolsonaro noted (R)

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's sons Eduardo and Flávio foresee the latter's victory in this year's elections after the ties between deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are exposed in the trial underway in New York.