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Montevideo, October 26th 2025 - 01:23 UTC

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  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Petro and Trump exchange threats amid troubled deportation flights

    In the end, the tug of war between Petro and Trump amounted to little more than reciprocal warnings

    Washington and Bogotá played cat-and-mouse this weekend after the Colombian leftwing Government Gustavo Petro refused to allow US military planes carrying deportees to land in the South American country. In response, President Donald Trump slapped 25% tariffs on all Colombian imports, after which Petro adopted a reciprocal measure.

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

    Honduran President calls for “emergency” Celac Summit

    The immigration crisis is expected to relaunch Celac's regional role among progressive leaders

    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, January 27th 2025 - 08:39 UTC

    Itamaraty outraged by US' handcuffing of Brazilian deportees

    Irregular Brazilian immigrants had been expelled from the US in handcuffs before but this was the first time after Trump's return to the White House

    Brazil's Foreign Ministry expressed its outrage after the US Government placed handcuffs on every member of a batch of 88 irregular migrants who were to be flown back to their country last Friday. Given this “degrading treatment,” it was announced at the Itammaraty Palace, the headquarters of South America's largest country's diplomacy, that the Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was to remain attentive to the issue.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 22:39 UTC

    Trump orders all files regarding JFK, RFK, and MLK murders disclosed

    Trump's executive order rendering children of illegal aliens ineligible for US citizenship is “blatantly unconstitutional,” Seattle Federal Judge John Coughenour said

    US President Donald Trump's executive order issuing spree during his first week in office included the declassification in the interest of transparency of all documents pertaining to the murders of then-President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1962, as well as those of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (RFK) and civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in 1968.

  • Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Trump reviews his four days in office during WEF speech

    The new Government achieved in less than four days more than other administrations have accomplished in four years, Trump also pointed out

    US President Donald Trump suggested four days into his second term in office that companies should manufacture their products at home or face import tariffs. During a video appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland), the Republican leader insisted his constituency had entrusted him to bring about change and thence his carrot-and-stick approach to private investment.

  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 22:14 UTC

    Rubio ratifies US recognition of González Urrutia as Venezuela's true President

    Rubio reaffirmed the United States' support for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela

    Venezuelan opposition leaders were told by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Donald Trump administration would hold Edmundo González Urrutia as the truthful President of Venezuela following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won based only on a declaration from the National Electoral Council (CNE) later upheld by the Supreme Court, both of which are under the control of the Chavista regime.

  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Chargé d'Affairs takes over US Embassy in Asunción on an interim basis

    Ostfield will most likely not be missed after he caused a lot of damage to Paraguay, Peña claimed

    As controversial US Ambassador Marc Ostfield completed his assignment in Asunción, the US diplomatic mission was left temporarily under Chargé d'Affairs Amir Masliyah -who has been Deputy Mission Chief since July 2022.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 21:13 UTC

    Milei would have no qualms breaking up with Mercosur if need be for FTA with US

    Milei is willing to pay any price to drive along what he thinks is prosperity's road

    Argentine President Javier Milei said in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos (Switzerland) that if breaking up with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was a requirement to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, he would not hesitate to do it.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 10:48 UTC

    Cuba back on US list of terrorism-sponsoring nations under Trump

    The Republican head of state placed Cuba among those nations where he had already included it during his first term in office (2017-2021)

    US President Donald Trump added Cuba once again to the list of nations sponsoring terrorism and announced tougher measures against Venezuela's Bolivarian regime which stayed in power past Jan. 10 despite half the world not recognizing Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate winner of the July 28, 2024, elections.

  • Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 07:36 UTC

    WHO wishes US would reconsider pulling out

    “The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948,” the UN agency recalled

    After US President announced he was pulling his country once again from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) agency issued a statement Tuesday wishing such a decision would be reconsidered. Trump had already left the WHO during his first term in office but his decision was reversed by his successor (and now predecessor) Joseph Biden.