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Montevideo, March 10th 2026 - 17:26 UTC

United States

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Rubio tells Mulino US to take necessary measures to end China's control over Panama Canal

    Rubio - the first Latino US Secretary of State is on a tour that will also include Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Sunday with Panamian President José Raúl Mulino, whom he told about the increasingly worrying control “control by the Chinese Communist Party” of the waterway linking the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. This situation is a threat to US interests, Rubio argued.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:40 UTC

    Trump signs 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods

    Trump declared a trade war between the US on one side, and China, Mexico, and Canada on the other, with the EU seemingly next in line

    US President Donald Trump on Saturday signed the documents imposing a 25% tariff on Mexican and most Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy products and Chinese goods. The target countries announced retaliatory initiatives. The reciprocal import/export taxation will become effective Feb. 4.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 08:44 UTC

    Paraguay's BCP outlines scenario under Trump's policies

    Trump's measures target “those countries with which the US maintains high trade deficits such as Mexico and China,” the BCP stressed

    Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) has picked up the glove from US President Donald Trump's barrage of protectionist economic measures and spoke of higher financing costs among the possible consequences of the Republican leader's policies. In addition, the US dollar would keep its upward trend against the guarani amid global uncertainty. Hence, there would be no room for a reduction in benchmark interest rates.

  • Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 07:38 UTC

    Trump's tariffs already have repercussions in Japan

    Trump's economic plans might impact the exchange rate between the US dollar and the yen

    Hours after US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products, the Nikkei index in Tokyo, which groups together the 225 most representative stocks in the market, plummeted by 2.5%. The White House measures over the weekend impacted the Japanese capital early Monday morning.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Chile's participation in US visa waiver program might soon be over

    The 2013 ended up a streamline for Chilean “criminal gangs to flock to the United States,” Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and 10 others claimed

    Less than a fortnight into Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States, Chilean nationals having access to the Visa Waiver program would have its days numbered. On Friday, 11 Republican lawmakers signed a document favoring their removal from the list. This initiative adds to a previous request from Orange County (California) District Attorney Todd Spitzer.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 10:43 UTC

    Trump's envoy brings back home 6 US hostages from Caracas

    Grenell brought back six former US hostages whose identities were not disclosed

    After meeting with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, US President Donald Trump's envoy to Caracas Richard Grenell boarded his flight back home alongside six Americans who had been held hostage by the Bolivarian regime.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 21:09 UTC

    Trump’s envoy delivers stern warning to Maduro in Caracas as US flag displayed in Miraflores

    Maduro’s press released striking photos showing the U.S. flag prominently displayed at the Miraflores Palace—the seat of the Venezuelan Government

    Richard Grenell, the special envoy appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump, met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday. During the meeting, Grenell conveyed a non-negotiable message from White House official Mauricio Claver-Carone: Maduro must “receive back the Venezuelan criminals that have been sent to the United States.”

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 18:28 UTC

    US special envoy lands in Caracas

    The exact purpose of Grenell's trip is yet to be disclosed but he was meeting with Maduro Friday

    US career diplomat Richard Grenell landed Friday in Caracas presumably to participate in the return of a group of Venezuelan deportees in exchange for US nationals detained by the Bolivarian regime in the South American country. However, neither government has made any agenda public so the full scope of Washington's former Ambassador to Germany is mostly media speculation.

  • Friday, January 31st 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Argentine national among the dead in Potomac River air crash

    The Argentine national's 13-year-old son was, like almost half of the airliner's passengers, involved in figure skating and had attended an event in Kansas

    US authorities announced Thursday that there were no survivors in the mid-air collision between an American Eagle CRJ-700 jetliner and an Army helicopter near Washington DC's Ronald Reagan / National Airport. Among the deceased was an Argentine national and his Chilean son. The airplane was carrying 60 passengers plus a crew of 4 while 3 servicemen were aboard the helicopter.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 11:29 UTC

    Fed leaves rates unchanged with a message to Trump, “in no hurry to adjust policy stance”

    “I’m not going to have any response or comment whatsoever on what the president said,” Powell said’ “It’s not appropriate for me to do so.”

    The United States Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged following the two day meeting with Fed chair Jerome Powell emphasizing at the press conference that “the bank is in no hurry to adjust its policy stance, since the US economy remains strong”.