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Montevideo, May 3rd 2025 - 06:17 UTC

Politics

  • Thursday, January 9th 2025 - 09:44 UTC

    Leading risk rating agency further ups Paraguay's gradings

    Paraguay is a giant “firmly re-emerging on the right path!,” Peña wrote on X

    Paraguay's review by the international rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has been upgraded from “stable to positive,” it was announced Wednesday in Asunción, as President Santiago Peña welcomed this new recognition.

  • Wednesday, January 8th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Chavista regime abducts González Urrutia's son-in-law

    González Urrutia announced he still planned to go to Panama before Friday

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia called off his agenda in the United States Tuesday after announcing that his son-in-law Rafael Tudares had been abducted by Nicolás Maduro's Bolivarian regime. Both Maduro and González Urrutia claim to have won the controversial July 28, 2024, elections and said they intend to be sworn in for the 2025-2031 term on Friday.

  • Wednesday, January 8th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Paraguayan President reshuffles Industry Ministry

    Peña also signed into law a bill regarding MSMEs

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Tuesday reshuffled his country's Industry and Commerce Ministry (MIC) by appointing Businessman Marco Riquelme as the new Deputy Minister of Industry, given his vision of a more industrial nation matching that of the head of State. “It is a dream that we have been sharing from an industrial family and as part of the guild. The idea is to join my efforts to make this dream come true in the shortest possible time”, said Riquelme.

  • Wednesday, January 8th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Former Chilean guerrilla set free by Bolivian authorities

    Muñoz Hoffman was convicted in Chile for the murder of Senator Jaime Guzmán, among other crimes

    Former Chilean guerrilla Pablo Muñoz Hoffman of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), who was captured in Bolivia on Monday after 29 years at large, was set free on Tuesday instead of being extradited to his country as previously announced. He had escaped from prison in 1996 in a movie-style flight after which he vanished into thin air until this week.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 21:07 UTC

    Uruguayan future lawmakers hope to get euthanasia legalized shortly

    In Preve's view, legal euthanasia is a much-needed alternative and “a right for many people who are in quite complicated situations”

    The incoming administration of Uruguay's future President Yamandú Orsi taking office on March 1 may see the euthanasia bill passed, it was reported this week in Montevideo. The initiative is currently stalled in the Senate.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 20:07 UTC

    UN peacekeeping mission chief in Haiti promises hell for gangs

    Otunge also underlined that the Guatemalan female troops were “highly trained soldiers”

    With the arrival of 150 Guatemalan military police over the weekend, the United Nations (UN)-backed Multinational Security Support (MMS) force in violence-torn Haiti went up by 36.5%, now reaching 590 troops with 400 Kenyans, 8 Salvadorans, 6 Bahamians, 24 Jamaicans, and 2 Belizeans.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 10:06 UTC

    Maduro claims Argentine NCO targeted VP Delcy Rodríguez

    “God guard her and God has guarded her,” the Bolivarian leader stressed about Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed Monday that Argentine Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo who has been detained and charged with espionage intended to kill Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. “God guard her and God has guarded her,” the Bolivarian leader stressed while insisting that Javier Milei's Libertarian administration was behind it all because it was not true that Gallo had a romantic partner and a child in Venezuela. “That gentleman has his wife in Argentina,” Maduro argued.

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 09:45 UTC

    Fugitive Chilean guerrilla captured in Bolivia

    Muñoz Hoffman was the last fugitive of the four guerrillas who staged the legendary “Flight of Justice” in 1996

    Former Chilean guerrilla fighter Pablo Muñoz Hoffman was arrested Monday in La Paz, Bolivia, after 29 years at large following a movie-style jailbreak using a helicopter. Together with Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, Ricardo Palma Salamanca, and Patricio Ortiz Montenegro, all members of the now-defunct Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), they staged the so-called “Flight of Justice.”

  • Tuesday, January 7th 2025 - 07:13 UTC

    Indonesia joins BRICS as full member, Brasilia confirms

    Brazil took over the bloc's rotating presidency on Jan. 1.

    Brazil's government confirmed Monday that Indonesia had joined the BRICS bloc as a full member, making it the first country to do so this year, Agencia Brasil reported. The alliance now has the fourth largest population on the planet, with the new partner's 284 million inhabitants making it the 10th largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the World Bank.

  • Monday, January 6th 2025 - 22:00 UTC

    Paraguay recognizes Edmundo González Urrutia as President-elect and breaks diplomatic ties with Caracas

    Paraguay gave Venezuela's diplomatic mission 48 hours to leave the country

    The Paraguayan Government of President Santiago Peña Monday announced it was recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia of the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) as the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections in Venezuela, which prompted a diplomatic breakup with Nicolás Maduro's regime.