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Montevideo, March 9th 2026 - 07:13 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 12:03 UTC

    Martín Menem re-elected as Speaker of Argentina's Lower House

    Martín Menem will remain third in line to the presidential succession

    The Argentine House of Deputies swore in 127 new legislators on Wednesday in a session that concluded with the reelection of Martín Menem as Speaker. The occasion wss attended by President Javier Milei as the ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) became the largest minority bloc. LLA secured 95 seats after Entre Ríos' Francisco Moechio changed sides.

  • Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 11:20 UTC

    Argentine judge rules in favor of extraditing 5 defendants convicted in Brazil's coup d'état case

    Rafecas' decision will be appealed, defense lawyers said

    Buenos Aires Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas ruled Wednesday to extradite five Brazilian nationals who were convicted for their roles in the January 8, 2023, attacks on Brazil's government headquarters.

  • Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 11:15 UTC

    Surveys show Kast ahead in Chilean runoff

    Kast remains the clear frontrunner against the leftist Jara

    Recent polling in Chile's presidential runoff election, scheduled for December 14, indicates that conservative leader José Antonio Kast holds a commanding lead over the governing coalition's candidate, Jeannette Jara.

  • Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Falklands, feasibility report for a marina in Stanley Harbor

    The feasibility report calls for an approximately seven month scope of works to produce its final report, with several review checkpoints for FIDC.

    The Falkland Islands Development Corporation (FIDC) has contracted U.K.-based maritime civil, structural, architectural, and environmental engineering services company Arch Henderson to conduct and provide the feasibility report for a marina in Stanley Harbor.

  • Thursday, December 4th 2025 - 10:09 UTC

    Bolivian Customs is going to die, says President Paz

    Customs barriers resulted in officials asking for bribes, Paz admitted

    Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz Pereira announced Wednesday that his administration would eliminate tariffs on all technological products not manufactured domestically to lower consumer costs, fighting smuggling, and boosting national production.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 18:18 UTC

    US shuts doors on foreigners from 19 “high-risk” countries

    Haiti, Venezuela, and Cuba are among the countries affected by the USCIS measure

    The US Government of President Donald Trump announced this week a pause on the processing of immigration applications for nationals from 19 countries, while simultaneously initiating a review of asylum and immigration cases approved under the previous administration of Joseph Biden.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 11:16 UTC

    Brazil clinches export clearances with Philippines, Guatemala, and Nicaragua

    The new deals fell within Brazil's strategy of diversifying exports

    Brazilian authorities have completed negotiations with the Philippines, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to expand agricultural exports to these countries after reaching an understanding on sanitary and phytosanitary requirements.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Lula and Trump discuss organized crime and trade tariffs

    Both leaders agreed to speak again soon to review the progress of these initiatives

    Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Donald Trump of the United States held a 40-minute telephone conversation on Tuesday, focusing on boosting joint efforts to combat international organized crime and the further reduction of US tariffs on Brazilian goods.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    What are the conditions Maduro offered Trump? The keys behind US president’s ultimatum

    The Venezuelan president was reportedly willing to step down, but only under a set of political and judicial guarantees that Washington deemed unacceptable

    Amid an unprecedented military buildup and the formal designation of Venezuela’s so-called Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist organization, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Nicolás Maduro “will do it,” when asked whether the Venezuelan leader had offered to step down. At the same press conference, Trump announced that US ground operations against “narcoterrorists” in Venezuela would begin “very soon,” adding: “We know where they live. We know where the bad guys live.” His comments come as more details emerge of a phone call in which, according to Reuters and France 24, Maduro reportedly laid out specific conditions for leaving office.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Vote count flips in Honduras after interruption

    Nasralla (in the pic) is now slightly ahead of Asfura

    Honduras' presidential race saw a lead change Tuesday as election officials resumed counting votes following accusations of US interference and the highly controversial pardon of a former Honduran president by Donald Trump.