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Montevideo, July 22nd 2025 - 00:51 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, March 16th 2023 - 06:11 UTC

    Paraguayan gov't wants no more red tape from US on beef exports

    Ambassador Ostfield was moderately optimistic about the issue

    Paraguayan authorities insisted this week before the US Embassy that there were no sanitary impediments for the northern country to welcome beef shipments from the South American nation, only red tape was hindering progress in that regard.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    Argentina's interannual inflation reaches three digits

    The annual target of 60% for 2023 is beginning to look unattainable, Economy Ministry sources admitted

    Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February of 2023 was reported to stand at 6.6%, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), which resulted in interannual inflation of 102.5%. In this scenario, Economy Ministry sources quoted by Buenos Aires media admitted the possibility of not meeting the 60% annual target outlined in the 2023 Budget.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

    Bolsonaro wants TCU to hold the jewels pending a final ruling

    TCU Justice Nardes had appointed Bolsonaro as a trustee of the items pending a final decision

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday asked the Federal Court of Audit (TCU) to keep in its possession a set of jewels received as a gift from Saudi Arabia, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

    Quito, Buenos Aires expel ambassadors over convicted minister's escape

    Argentina regretted the “incomprehensible decision of the Government” of Quito to request the recall of Gabriel Fuks

    Quito expelled Argentina's Ambassador Gabriel Fuks and Buenos Aires retaliated by giving Xavier Monge his marching orders after a former official of the Rafael Correa administration fled to Caracas where she expects to complete her asylum process with the government of Alberto Fernández.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 09:58 UTC

    Lula insists on demarcating indigenous lands in Amazon rainforest

    If there is gold in the indigenous land of Roraima, no one has the right to take it out without the authorization of the indigenous people of Brazil, Lula said.

    President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Tuesday pledged to expand the indigenous territories in northeast Brazil in a move to expel organized crime groups extracting natural resources from those areas.

  • Wednesday, March 15th 2023 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentine President advised to rest due to back pain

    Fernández will undergo a painkilling procedure in the next few days

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández was taken late Tuesday to Buenos Aires' Sanatorio Otamendi due to severe back pain. After a series of tests were performed, Fernández was advised to rest at the Olivos residence. He was diagnosed with a herniated lumbar disc, for which he will undergo a painkilling procedure in the next few days, according to the Presidential Medical Unit.

  • Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Little has changed since the referendum, MLA Pollard tells Clarín

    “I think we are being used as a distraction” by the Argentine government, Pollard told Clarín

    Marking the 10th anniversary of the Falklands Islands referendum regarding self-determination, MLA Mark Pollard was interviewed by Buenos Aires' Clarín to discuss that consultation and other topics regarding current events involving the South Atlantic overseas territories.

  • Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

    Uruguay to up border controls in fight against drug trafficking

    “Controls at ports and border crossings are fundamental,” Arbeleche said

    Uruguayan Customs authorities are to deploy three new state-of-the-art scanners for border control, Economy and Finance Minister Azucena Arbeleche announced Monday during the opening of the VIII Regional Meeting of the Global Container Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. The plan is an initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organization.

  • Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

    Biden says US banking system safe after Silicon Valley Bank collapse

    The FDIC also closed the New York-based Signature Bank

    US President Joseph Biden said his country's banking system was “safe” in the aftermath of last week's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a California financial giant specialized in the technology sector. Biden insisted Monday that Americans can “trust that the banking system is safe,” and said he would seek to move forward with stronger regulations.

  • Tuesday, March 14th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    Brazil: De Moraes insists social media platforms are communication companies

    Freedom of expression is not freedom of aggression, De Moraes argued

    Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes insisted Monday that social media platforms should be likened to communication and advertising companies so that they can be held accountable.