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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 02:52 UTC

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  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Brazil’s Finance Minister: Trump's tariffs damage global trade

    Haddad will discuss the matter deeper with representatives of Brazil's steel and aluminum sectors when he returns from his Feb.14-20 Middle East tour

    Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad stressed Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's decision to impose 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports was “counterproductive” to the global economy. “The global economy loses with this, with this retraction, with this de-globalization that is happening,” he added.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 14:23 UTC

    Guterres wants Israel and Hamas to keep negotiating while Trump heralds hell in Gaza

    “We must avoid at all costs the resumption of hostilities,” Guterres said

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres Tuesday urged the terrorist group Hamas not to drop the plan to release Israeli hostages in exchange for convicted Palestinians. The Portuguese diplomat urged both sides of the conflict to avoid “hostilities” and carry on with the second stage of the ceasefire. Hamas had announced it would not abide by the deal after Israel allegedly violated the truce.

  • Tuesday, February 11th 2025 - 10:39 UTC

    First U.S.-Venezuela deportation flights begin under Trump-Maduro agreement

    Venezuelan deportees are loaded onto a plane, in an image shared by the White House, February 10, 2025.

    Two state-owned Conviasa planes departed from El Paso, Texas, on Monday, carrying the first group of Venezuelan deportees under the agreement between United States President Donald Trump and his counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. The operation comes just two weeks after Maduro met with Trump’s envoy, Richard Grenell, in Caracas—a meeting marked by the U.S. flag flying once again at Miraflores Palace.

  • Monday, February 10th 2025 - 13:31 UTC

    Europe prepares retaliatory measures to Trump's tariffs

    Von der Leyen suggested a defense alternative to NATO was needed

    US President Donald Trump's announcement that he planned to impose tariffs on European products to even up the trade scale “would be illegal and economically counterproductive,” the European Commission (EC) warned in a statement. It would also affect international trade and production chains, it went on.

  • 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 - 08:28 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 - 19:28 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.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 20:32 UTC

    ICC rejects Trump's sanctions and pledges to keep working

    Trump issued an executive order Thursday whereby ICC members or staffers and their relatives, including their bank accounts and possessions on US soil, can be seized

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) Friday condemned US President Donald Trump's sanctions against the United Nations tribunal while pledging to keep working. The Republican leader's move was deemed an attempt to “harm its independent and impartial judicial work.”

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 09:25 UTC

    Panama drops the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, but also rejects free transit of US vessels through the Canal

    President Mulino announced on Thursday that Panama will withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollars funded global project

    Panama’s President, José Raúl Mulino, announced on Thursday that the country will withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative, the ambitious Chinese project to fund infrastructure to improve connectivity and economic cooperation with other nations. At the same time US Secretary of State Marco Rubio clarified the claim that Panama “had decided to remove fees for US government vessels transiting the Panama Canal”