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Montevideo, April 19th 2025 - 13:51 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 07:32 UTC

    Like old friends, PM Starmer/Trump; and Lamy/Rubio agree to meet soon

    “The two leaders stressed the importance of the close and warm ties between the UK and the US”

    Communication between British PM Keir Starmer cabinet and US President Donald Trump team seem very fluid, speaking like lifelong friends and buddies. That was what occurred on Monday when PM Starmer spoke to President Trump and on Sunday with Foreign Secretary David Lamy and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In both cases the leaders agreed to meet soon.

  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 21:42 UTC

    Investigation launched into attack against Venezuela's Embassy in La Paz

    Sosa explained that shots had been fired against the diplomatic mission on Sunday

    Bolivian Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa said her country's government had launched an investigation into the attack against Venezuela's Embassy in La Paz. “From the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia we strongly repudiate these vandalism acts that violate the rights and immunities of Venezuelan diplomats,” she stressed in a statement published on social media.

  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Petro and Trump exchange threats amid troubled deportation flights

    In the end, the tug of war between Petro and Trump amounted to little more than reciprocal warnings

    Washington and Bogotá played cat-and-mouse this weekend after the Colombian leftwing Government Gustavo Petro refused to allow US military planes carrying deportees to land in the South American country. In response, President Donald Trump slapped 25% tariffs on all Colombian imports, after which Petro adopted a reciprocal measure.

  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 09:14 UTC

    Honduran President calls for “emergency” Celac Summit

    The immigration crisis is expected to relaunch Celac's regional role among progressive leaders

    Honduran President Xiomara Castro launched an appeal Sunday for leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to convene “urgently” to discuss the ongoing crisis sparked by US President Donald Trump's decision to speed up deportations.

  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 08:39 UTC

    Itamaraty outraged by US' handcuffing of Brazilian deportees

    Irregular Brazilian immigrants had been expelled from the US in handcuffs before but this was the first time after Trump's return to the White House

    Brazil's Foreign Ministry expressed its outrage after the US Government placed handcuffs on every member of a batch of 88 irregular migrants who were to be flown back to their country last Friday. Given this “degrading treatment,” it was announced at the Itammaraty Palace, the headquarters of South America's largest country's diplomacy, that the Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was to remain attentive to the issue.

  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 08:34 UTC

    Uruguayan peacekeeper killed in DRC as rebels seize Goma

    Uruguayan Sergeant Adrián Fernández has been wounded and is in a “critical” condition

    Various UN peacekeeping troops were killed this weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the rebel M23 made territorial gains. One Uruguayan was among the dead and another was reported stable, albeit in a critical condition. Three others were wounded. In addition to the Uruguayan casualty, the UN troops also confirmed the killing of two South African soldiers. At least 13 peacekeepers fell last week.

  • Saturday, January 25th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Fitch downgrades Bolivia's credit rating

    Fitch's pessimistic projections generate unnecessary uncertainty, Bolivian authorities argued

    The international agency Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded Bolivia's status to “CCC-” and warned that corrective measures were needed urgently to avoid a deeper slide. In issuing its grades, Fitch took into account the unavailability of foreign currency and the country's poorly designed economic and fiscal policy.

  • Saturday, January 25th 2025 - 09:29 UTC

    Moody's improves Argentina's grades

    Lifting exchange rate controls will bring on new challenges for the Libertarian administration

    The international credit rating agency Moody's Friday improved Argentina's long-term foreign and local currency issuer grades from Ca to Caa3 but warned that “there are still significant risks to the country's ability to cover upcoming external debt payments.”

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 22:39 UTC

    Trump orders all files regarding JFK, RFK, and MLK murders disclosed

    Trump's executive order rendering children of illegal aliens ineligible for US citizenship is “blatantly unconstitutional,” Seattle Federal Judge John Coughenour said

    US President Donald Trump's executive order issuing spree during his first week in office included the declassification in the interest of transparency of all documents pertaining to the murders of then-President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1962, as well as those of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (RFK) and civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in 1968.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:42 UTC

    Lula and Scheinbaum discuss regional matters over the phone

    Lula invited Sheinbaum over to Brazil to further boost the excellent ties between the two countries

    Progressive Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico discussed Thursday during a telephone conversation the relevance of cultivating “productive relations” with the United States, now once again under the Republican Donald Trump.