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Montevideo, July 4th 2025 - 18:43 UTC

Politics

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:40 UTC

    Colombia: Petro undertakes major cabinet reshuffle

    Petro is making major adjustments as his government faces strong turbulences

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday asked every member of his cabinet to submit their resignation, as he intends major adjustments to fully comply with the National Development Plan. “I have requested protocol resignation to ministers, ministers, and directors of administrative departments,” Petro posted on X.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:10 UTC

    Trump slaps 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports

    “Any steel coming into the United States is going to have to have a 25% tariff. Aluminum as well. 25% for both,” Trump explained

    US President Donald Trump announced this weekend that 25% tariffs would be applied to all steel and aluminum imports effective immediately. “Any steel coming into the United States is going to have to have a 25% tariff. Also aluminum. 25% for both,” Trump said aboard Air Force

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 09:03 UTC

    Lula warns Trump he was not elected to rule the world

    You don't build a riviera on top of thousands of dead women and children, Lula stressed about Trump's announcements

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was harshly critical of his US colleague Donald Trump's announcement that his country would take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East. “Nobody is going to make a beautiful place on top of thousands of dead bodies of women and children,” said Lula during a radio interview in Bahia State.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 08:51 UTC

    Pope halts homily amid shortness of breath

    The Argentine-born Pope has been suffering from bronchitis over the past few days

    Argentine-born Pope Francis was forced Sunday to interrupt his homily in St. Peter's Square during the Armed Forces Jubilee Sunday due to notorious breathing difficulties. “Now I apologize and ask the master to continue the reading due to difficulty in breathing,” said Jorge Mario Bergoglio before a crowd featuring numerous troops and police officers from various countries.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 08:28 UTC

    Judge keeps Musk's DOGE from further digging into US Gov's spending

    Judge Engelmayer is to hear Further arguments on Feb. 14

    Citing potential “irreparable harm,” US Federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer Saturday blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing specific records within the Treasury Department, thus acquiescing to a request from New York Attorney General Letitia James and 19 States under Democratic rule.

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 19:38 UTC

    Brazil’s interest rate raised to 13.25% and further increases forecasted

    Copom, lifted the Selic policy rate to 13.25% in a unanimous decision, the first under new central bank Chief Gabriel Galipolo,appointed by President Lula da Silva

    Brazil's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate, Selic, by 100 basis points for the second straight meeting last Wednesday and anticipated another similar hike in March, concerned about mounting inflationary pressures.

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 19:28 UTC

    BoE chair fears “fragmentation of world economy” if Trump abandons IMF and World Bank

    “Project 2025” blueprint for Trump's presidency, was authored by figures who are now key White House staff, recommended withdrawal from both institutions

    The Governor of the Bank of England Andres Bailey has urged continued US support for two major global economic institutions. According to a piece published by BBC, Mr. Bailey said he was “following extremely closely” whether the Trump administration would change its support for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 19:04 UTC

    BoE cuts rate to 4.50% but slashed UK growth to 0.75% and ups inflation estimate to 3.5%

    Governor Andrew Bailey mentioned on his press conference on the influence of natural gas prices, which have risen in response to a spell of colder weather

    The Bank of England last Thursday cut interest rates 25 percentage points to 4,50%, but at the same time slashed its growth forecast for the year and warned the near-term outlook for the economy had become complicated.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    Argentine judge rules travel agency should not advertise Malvinas as UK destination

    Judge Cánepa ruled that advertising the United Kingdom as the country of destination when traveling to the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands was misleading

    Judge Guillermo Patricio Cánepa of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) ruled this week that Cruiseline S.R.L. should not mislead potential customers by advertising cruise services to the United Kingdom's “Islas Malvinas.” The magistrate ordered the company to pull its advertising campaign in that regard and recognize Argentina's sovereignty over the archipelago.

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:56 UTC

    Argentina: Lower House gives thumbs down to open primaries

    The PASO elections were created in 2009 under CFK and held for the first time in 2011

    Argentina's Lower House approved this week by 162 votes in favor, 55 against, and 28 abstentions, the elimination of the so-called Mandatory, Simultaneous, and Open Primary (PASO) Elections whereby the country's constituencies chose each party's candidates. The measure proposed by the ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) of President Javier Milei now needs to be passed by the Senate before it can be implemented in this year's mid-terms.