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Montevideo, August 31st 2025 - 02:27 UTC

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  • Monday, July 28th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina and US advancing in construction of an integrated naval base in Tierra del Fuego

    US Southern Command chief Admiral Alvin Holsey when visiting Argentina and meeting President Javier Milei

    The Argentine government shipyard Company Tandanor has finished the flat cement foundation on which the Joint Antarctic Command for the Ushuaia integrated naval base in Tierra del Fuego province is to be built, points out Buenos Aires media.

  • Monday, July 28th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    US and EU clinch trade agreement

    “I think we both wanted to reach an agreement,” Trump said after meeting with von der Leyen

    The United States and the European Union have reached a trade agreement that will impose a 15% tariff on most European exports to the US, including automobiles, President Donald Trump announced Sunday after meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the former's golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland.

  • Monday, July 28th 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Argentina to rejoin US Visa Waiver Program?

    Argentines lost that visa waiver privilege after the 2001 economic crisis

    Argentina seems set to regain its participation in the US Visa Waiver Program, allowing holders of Argentine passports to enter the United States for tourism or business for up to 90 days without a visa. This development is expected to be formalized during the visit of US Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who is scheduled to sign an agreement with President Javier Milei on Monday.

  • Saturday, July 26th 2025 - 10:53 UTC

    US insists Maduro heads the Cartel de los Soles terrorist organization

    This move follows criminal charges filed against Maduro and other Venezuelan officials during the previous Trump administration

    The United States Government of President Donald Trump insisted Friday that Venezuela's leader Nicolás Maduro was the head of the “Cartel de los Soles,” which was designated a terrorist organization. In Washington's view, Maduro uses drug trafficking to “destabilize” the region.

  • Friday, July 25th 2025 - 10:03 UTC

    Chevron cleared to resume Venezuelan operations

    Chevron had stopped producing crude oil in May in compliance with a White House decision

    President Nicolás Maduro confirmed on Thursday that US oil company Chevron has been authorized to fully resume its operations in Venezuela after months of suspension due to Washington's sanctions.

  • Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 19:49 UTC

    Lamelas causes uproar in Buenos Aires

    Trump's pick for the US Embassy in Buenos Aires made quite an impression among Argentine opposition leaders

    After his speech Tuesday before the US Senate, Peter Lamelas, Donald Trump's nominee for US ambassador to Argentina, has sparked widespread condemnation from Argentine governors, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), and the Chinese Embassy in Buenos Aires.

  • Wednesday, July 23rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Future US Ambassador to Buenos Aires insists on neutrality regarding Falklands' case

    Lamelas also described Argentina as a “key player” to form an “unprecedented alliance” with

    Peter Lamelas, Donald Trump's ambassador-designate to Argentina, reiterated Tuesday during his confirmation hearing before the US Senate that his country was neutral regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Islands issue. In addition, he described Argentina as a “key player” and insisted he was looking forward to an “unprecedented alliance” with President Javier Milei, whom he described as a “friend” of Donald Trump.

  • Monday, July 21st 2025 - 19:48 UTC

    Ecuador extradites alias “Fito” to the United States

    If convicted, Macías could face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years

    Ecuadorean drug trafficking gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito” was extradited late Sunday to the United States. The head of the “Los Choneros” organization was considered one of the country's most notorious criminals, whose escape from jail in 2024 triggered a violence wave that forced President Daniel Noboa to declare an internal “armed conflict.” Fito was recaptured on June 25.

  • Saturday, July 19th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    US revokes visas of De Moraes and his family

    De Moraes' witch hunt against Bolsonaro “extends beyond Brazil's borders,” Rubio insisted

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the visas of Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes and his family revoked following the magistrate's latest ruling regarding former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom he placed under house arrest with a tracking device around his ankle.

  • Friday, July 18th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Trump demands release of Epstein documents to stop revolt, threatens to sue WSJ

    The controversy escalated after The Wall Street Journal published a birthday letter supposedly written by Trump and decorated with sexually suggestive drawings

    U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to release portions of the grand jury materials from the Jeffrey Epstein case in an effort to calm the growing discontent within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. The move follows The Wall Street Journal’s publication of a 2003 birthday letter allegedly written by Trump to the convicted sex offender — a letter Trump claims is “fake,” threatening legal action against the newspaper and its owner, Rupert Murdoch.