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Montevideo, April 19th 2025 - 13:51 UTC

Politics

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Paraguayan President describes importance of trade openness in speech at WTO

    Peña is to stay in Switzerland until Sunday

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Friday underlined the importance of trade openness and multilateralism during his speech at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) headquarters in Geneva. Peña highlighted “the importance of global integration to strengthen trade and resilience in the face of uncertainty,” the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC) said in a statement.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 08:16 UTC

    Released British-Israeli soldier discusses plight with PM Starmer

    Damari told Starmer she had been kept at various UNRWA facilities

    Emily Damari, the Israeli soldier who grew up in south-east London and was taken hostage by the terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, spoke Friday on the telephone with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom she told about her ordeal. Upon her release, she made headlines worldwide for having lost two fingers and because her sexual orientation (lesbian) had been kept from public knowledge to avoid further damage from her captors.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 21:09 UTC

    Trump’s envoy delivers stern warning to Maduro in Caracas as US flag displayed in Miraflores

    Maduro’s press released striking photos showing the U.S. flag prominently displayed at the Miraflores Palace—the seat of the Venezuelan Government

    Richard Grenell, the special envoy appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump, met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday. During the meeting, Grenell conveyed a non-negotiable message from White House official Mauricio Claver-Carone: Maduro must “receive back the Venezuelan criminals that have been sent to the United States.”

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 19:09 UTC

    Worst feared as Argentine national goes missing in Brazil

    Federico Bruni's van was found on the banks of the Do Ponche River

    Brazilian Police keep looking for 32-year-old Argentine national Federico Bruni who went missing as he went on a tour in the São Bonifácio jungle. Bruni's pick-up truck and his dog have already been found.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 18:28 UTC

    US special envoy lands in Caracas

    The exact purpose of Grenell's trip is yet to be disclosed but he was meeting with Maduro Friday

    US career diplomat Richard Grenell landed Friday in Caracas presumably to participate in the return of a group of Venezuelan deportees in exchange for US nationals detained by the Bolivarian regime in the South American country. However, neither government has made any agenda public so the full scope of Washington's former Ambassador to Germany is mostly media speculation.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Bolsonaro ready to be jailed at any time

    Bolsonaro is somehow expecting the Federal Police to ring on his doorbell at 6 am

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told Bloomberg that he was mentally prepared to be incarcerated any time soon, and was somehow expecting Federal Police (PF) officers to pick him up. “I sleep well, but I'm already prepared to hear the doorbell ring at 6 am,” announcing it is the PF. Bolsonaro has already been indicted in the alleged coup plot, the alleged vaccination card fraud, and the Saudi jewels case. In another interview last week, Bolsonaro claimed that the charges did not matter.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    Swiss minister tells Peña her country interested in dealing with Mercosur

    Switzerland “has many companies that are interested in investing worldwide,” Budlinger explained

    Switzerland's Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Helen Budlinger told Paraguayan President Santiago Peña that her country was interested in expanding businesses with Asunción and with all of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). She made those remarks Thursday as she welcomed Peña to the non-European Union nation which thus covets a separate Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 08:34 UTC

    Venezuela: Israel's FM says his country supports González Urrutia

    Venezuela will be an ally of all the world's democracies once Maduro is toppled, Machado told Sa'ar (R)

    Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar Thursday told Venezuelan opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado that the Middle East country had its South American counterpart's freedom in mind: “Venezuela shall be free,” Sa'ar insisted during a telephone conversation. He also invited the man most Western nations recognize as the legitimate winner of the controversial July 28, 2024, elections to visit Israel shortly.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 11:35 UTC

    Argentina launches a month assessment of Illex squid along the Patagonian shelf

    The cruise will be done onboard the fisheries research vessel Victor Angelescu

    Argentina this week launched a month long cruise assessment of the sub-Patagonic squid, Illex Argentinus, on board the Ocean Fisheries Research Vessel, Victor Angelescu. The area of research will extend between parallels 46 and 51 degrees south.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 11:29 UTC

    Fed leaves rates unchanged with a message to Trump, “in no hurry to adjust policy stance”

    “I’m not going to have any response or comment whatsoever on what the president said,” Powell said’ “It’s not appropriate for me to do so.”

    The United States Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged following the two day meeting with Fed chair Jerome Powell emphasizing at the press conference that “the bank is in no hurry to adjust its policy stance, since the US economy remains strong”.