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Montevideo, December 29th 2025 - 19:11 UTC

Politics

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 11:18 UTC

    Uruguay announces economic measures to boost growth

    Uruguay will focus on small and medium-sized enterprises, Oddone explained

    Uruguay's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has announced a new set of measures to “prioritize” and “streamline” investment to boost growth by making things easier for both national and foreign investors. “There is a political idea of what we want to do,” Minister Gabriel Oddone explained.

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    US deploys destroyers off Venezuela in operation against narco-terror groups

    The strategy aligns with President Donald Trump’s policy of ramping up military pressure on drug cartels, including Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, and the Cartel of the Suns

    The United States will deploy three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers off the coast of Venezuela within the next 36 hours as part of an operation targeting criminal organizations classified as narco-terrorist groups. According to Reuters, the vessels are the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson, all equipped with the Aegis defense system for air, submarine, and surface warfare.

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:54 UTC

    Brazil: Meta ordered to remove controversial content from platforms

    The “eroticization of children” is on the rise, it was argued

    Brazil's Attorney General's Office (FGR) has formally requested that Meta - owner of social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook - immediately remove chatbots that use childlike language and appearances to engage in sexual conversations. These chatbots, created using the “Meta AI Studio” tool, are considered a “concrete risk to the psychological integrity of children and adolescents.”

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Tsunami ruled out in Chile after earthquake

    The SHOA ruled out the chance after properly monitoring the events in the Drake Sea

    A 5.7-magnitude earthquake was reported early Tuesday in the Drake Sea, with its epicenter located 249 kilometers south of Puerto Williams, in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Following the seismic event, the Chilean Navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA) ruled out any possibility of a tsunami affecting the Chilean coast.

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 09:16 UTC

    Fishing conflict in Uruguay: armed assemblies and threats amid industry crisis

    The dispute began over the union’s demand to hire an additional crew member on coastal vessels, a measure rejected by companies due to higher costs

    After nearly 80 days of strikes that paralyzed the fishing season and caused losses of up to US$50 million, Uruguay’s fishing union (Suntma) decided to call off its protest — but in an atmosphere of extreme tension. In recent assemblies, armed workers confronted each other and issued direct threats. “If you want bullets, you’ll get bullets,” one participant warned union leaders, according to El País.

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 22:08 UTC

    After meeting Zelensky, Trump sees three-way summit with Putin possible

    This time around, Zelensky at least wore a dark suit, albeit no tie

    US President Donald Trump met Monday with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders following his encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin to keep working towards a solution to the ongoing crisis.

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 21:38 UTC

    Lula and Noboa discuss trade beyond ideological discrepancies

    Noboa is on a tour that will also include Uruguay and Argentina

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday welcomed his Ecuadorean colleague Daniel Noboa at the Planalto Palace for a meeting during which both leaders set aside their ideological discrepancies and focused on strengthening trade and cooperation, particularly after Washington's tariffs.

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 09:31 UTC

    Al Gore says Washington has “schizophrenic” approach to climate change

    It's crazy to allow polluters to write the rules,” Gore argued

    During his recent trip to Brazil, former US Vice President Al Gore said that his country's stance on the climate crisis was “schizophrenic,” changing from one view to another, depending on who ruled. In his first term in office, between 2017 and 2021, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, whose main objective is to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But then came Joseph Biden, and the country returned to the agreement, only to pull out yet again with Trump's second term.

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 08:51 UTC

    Brazil donating 20 Urutus armored vehicles to Paraguay

    The EE-11 Urutu was Brazil's main armored personnel carrier (VBTP) for decades

    Brazil is donating 20 EE-11 Urutu armored vehicles to the Paraguayan Army to help modernize its military and strengthen regional defense cooperation. The donation will increase Paraguay's fleet of Urutu vehicles from 12 to 32.

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 08:48 UTC

    Paraguay: Peña appoints official under investigation for fraud

    The fraud investigation against Flores Benítez is still ongoing, according to the prosecution

    In a controversial move, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña appointed Bella Rosa Flores Benítez as the new Deputy Minister of Family Farming. The new official faces fraud, falsifying public documents, and criminal association charges from Prosecutor José Godoy after she was accused of selling a 165-hectare property in 2021 that was not hers.