Tag: CELAC

• Thursday, April 10th 2025 - 10:08 UTC

  Petro and Orsi discuss ambitious projects for Latin America

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi agreed Wednesday in Tegucigalpa with his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro to advance Latin American integration through a continental electricity grid powered by renewable energy, a regional pharmaceutical agency to produce essential medicines, and cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum mathematics, and space exploration.

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• Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 10:16 UTC

  Uruguay: Orsi's first tour as president will be to Panama and Honduras

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi will embark on his first international trip as head of state on April 7, 2025, visiting Panama and Honduras, Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin confirmed Monday.

• Monday, January 27th 2025 - 09:14 UTC

  Honduran President calls for “emergency” Celac Summit

  

  Honduran President Xiomara Castro launched an appeal Sunday for leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to convene “urgently” to discuss the ongoing crisis sparked by US President Donald Trump's decision to speed up deportations.

• Monday, June 3rd 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Mercosur and Celac heads exchange views in San Salvador

  

  Presidents Santiago Peña of Paraguay and Xiomara Castro of Honduras, who also chair the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) respectively, got together while in San Salvador during Nayib Bukele's new inauguration as President of El Salvador to discuss “issues related to how to promote a joint agenda,” it was reported.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2024 - 20:11 UTC

  Celac joins worldwide condemnation of Ecuador's actions against Mexican Embassy

  

  Leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) Tuesday agreed to condemn Ecuador's April 5 storming of the Mexican Embassy in Quito to abduct former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum there after being convicted on corruption charges.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2024 - 10:44 UTC

  Lula brings spotlight onto Gaza crisis during Celac speech

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Friday brought before the United Nations a proposal from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to end “the genocide” in the Gaza Strip. During his speech at the 8th Celac Summit in Kingstown (St Vincent and the Grenadines), the South American leader also referred to the situation in the Middle East as a “carnage.”

• Monday, September 11th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Argentine president suggests Celac joins G20

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández suggested before the G20 Summit in New Delhi that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) should join the forum of the world's leading economies, just as the African Union was accepted into the group this year.

• Friday, September 1st 2023 - 08:56 UTC

  Presidents of Uruguay and France to attend Rugby World Cup clash

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has accepted the invitation of his French colleague Emmanuel Macron to join him in Lille for the Sept. 14 Rugby World Cup game pitting La Bleu against Los Teros (as the national teams of both countries are known), it was reported Thursday in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  EU-Celac summit's final declaration: Falklands/Malvinas a territory under dispute

  

  The final declaration of the two-day Summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) issued Tuesday in Brussels included in its 13th provision the Falkland/Malvinas Islands as a territory under dispute. The document also condemned Russia's military deployment in Ukraine with a footnote noting that one country (Nicaragua) would not adhere to that point.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 22:46 UTC

  Lacalle Pou urges swift action on EU-Mercosur Agreement: “Enough of 25 years of negotiations”

  

  In a strong plea for progress on the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou demanded an end to decades of fruitless negotiations, urging the involved parties to reach an agreement.