Politics

• Wednesday, March 4th 2026 - 22:04 UTC

  Released Argentine gendarme alleges “psychological torture” at Venezuela’s Rodeo I prison

  

  Nahuel Gallo, the Argentine gendarme freed after 448 days in detention in Venezuela, urged the release of “24 foreign nationals” he said remain imprisoned at the Rodeo I facility and asked for time before detailing what he endured during captivity. “Until they release those 24 foreign nationals, I’m not free,” he said in a short statement to reporters, without taking questions.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2026 - 17:43 UTC

  Bolivia jails 19 after people scooped up cash from crashed military plane

  

  A Bolivian judge ordered the pre-trial detention of 19 people accused of taking banknotes scattered after a military Hercules C-130 aircraft skidded off the runway while landing at El Alto international airport, adjacent to La Paz. The suspects will spend four months in prisons in the La Paz department as investigators build the case, according to El Deber.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2026 - 10:52 UTC

  Greens bash PM Starmer and Labour party in a Manchester stronghold

  

  The Green Party has comfortably won a by-election for a vacant parliamentary seat, an embarrassing defeat for embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in one of its former strongholds.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2026 - 04:52 UTC

  US says it has struck “nearly 2,000” targets in Iran and adds B-52 bombers to the air campaign

  

  The United States intensified its air campaign against Iran on Tuesday as Operation Epic Fury entered its fourth day, introducing B-52 strategic bombers into combat operations and reporting that “nearly 2,000” targets have been hit so far.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2026 - 03:18 UTC

  Paraguay steps up intelligence and financial controls in the Tri-Border Area amid Middle East tensions

  

  Paraguay’s government has activated intelligence, prevention and financial-control measures in the Tri-Border Area it shares with Argentina and Brazil amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, according to Internal Security Vice Minister Óscar Pereira.

• Wednesday, March 4th 2026 - 02:56 UTC

  Three foreigners convicted in Uruguay for attempting to obtain a passport with forgeries

  

  A court in Uruguay’s Flores department convicted three foreign nationals —a Russian, a Kazakh and a Mexican woman— after authorities said they attempted to begin identification procedures using false documentation at the National Civil Identification Directorate (DNIC) office in the city of Trinidad.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2026 - 23:36 UTC

  Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Spain after base refusal tied to Iran strikes

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to impose a total trade embargo on Spain after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government refused to allow the use of the Rota and Morón bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2026 - 15:14 UTC

  Chile: Kast halts transition talks with Boric, citing lack of trust over China-linked subsea cable briefings

  

  Chile’s president-elect José Antonio Kast said on Tuesday he is suspending the handover process with outgoing President Gabriel Boric, arguing his team cannot trust the information it has received on key issues, including a China-linked subsea fiber-optic project that would connect central Chile with Hong Kong.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2026 - 13:10 UTC

  Trump hits out at Starmer over Iran strikes, says the US-UK “special relationship” has weakened

  

  Donald Trump criticized UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for refusing to take part in strikes against Iran and said the long-standing US-UK “special relationship” is “not what it was,” in remarks carried by Britain’s The Sun and reported by Reuters.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2026 - 13:06 UTC

  Uruguay activates Mercosur–Singapore FTA on a bilateral basis, opening preferential access to Southeast Asia

  

  The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Mercosur and Singapore entered into force on a bilateral basis between Uruguay and the city-state on 1 March 2026, after both sides completed domestic procedures and deposited their instruments of ratification, according to a joint statement.