Politics

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 20:57 UTC

  Paraguayan Govt advises against traveling to Venezuela

  

  The Paraguayan Government, under President Santiago Peña, has issued a travel advisory for its nationals, advising them to stay away from Venezuela or leave the country at the earliest, considering that Asunción does not have an embassy or consulate in that territory and therefore its ability to assist people in distress is limited.

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine gov't downplays disability aid scandal

  

  Argentine authorities downplayed the recent scandal triggered by corruption allegations surrounding disability aid money and insisted it was all a plot by the opposition just days shy of the mid-term federal elections in the province of Buenos Aires, the country's largest and most significant district.

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

  Eduardo Bolsonaro says De Moraes is a “mad judge”

  

  Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, referred to Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Mraes as the “crazy judge” during an interview with a US broadcaster's Real America's Voice show.

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 10:54 UTC

  Maduro promotes Ambassador in Colombia to Major General

  

  Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro promoted his country's Ambassador to Colombia Carlos Martínez to the rank of major general in active reserve.

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 10:03 UTC

  Key guerrilla leader gunned down by Colombian forces

  

  A military operation in El Retorno, Colombia, on Sunday resulted in the death of Willinton Vanegas Leyva, also known by his alias “Dumar” or “Chito.” According to Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez Suárez, Dumar was a senior leader of the “Martín Villa faction,” a part of the FARC dissident group known as the Central General Staff (EMC), led by Iván Mordisco.

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 10:03 UTC

  One-person households on the rise in Brazil

  

  The proportion of Brazilian one-person households has grown by 52% in 12 years, Agencia Brasil reported during the weekend. In 2024, 18.6% of households were inhabited by only one person. In 2012, this share stood at 12.2%.

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 09:55 UTC

  Peña holds key meeting with US Southern Command Chief

  

  US Southern Command (Southcom) Chief, Admiral Alvin Holsey, has met with Paraguayan President Santiago Peña to strengthen the strategic alliance between the two countries. President Peña awarded Holsey the Order of Merit of the Armed Forces, Paraguay's highest military decoration, in recognition of his support for the South American nation.

• Saturday, August 23rd 2025 - 12:26 UTC

  Senator Uribe Turbay's father picks up his son's baton

  

  The 79-year-old Miguel Uribe Londoño, father of the Colombian slain Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, announced Friday that he would fill his son's vacancy within the conservative Centro Democrático's presidential primaries. Uribe Turbay died on August 11 after being shot during a campaign event in June.

• Saturday, August 23rd 2025 - 12:15 UTC

  Amazonia Summit countries pass Bogotá Declaration

  

  Leaders of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela on Friday approved the Bogotá Declaration, a document that establishes a unified position for COP30, scheduled for November 10-21 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

• Saturday, August 23rd 2025 - 11:52 UTC

  Maduro says Venezuela is an impregnable homeland

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Friday insisted before the National Assembly (Parliament) that his country was an “impregnable homeland,” which “nothing and no one will touch.” He also underlined that true wealth lay in “moral, spiritual, and ethical” values.