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Montevideo, July 7th 2025 - 09:24 UTC

United States

  • Monday, March 31st 2025 - 09:49 UTC

    Johnson warns Europe of NATO's need of US

    Johnson underscored the need for the US to remain the dominant Western power

    According to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, there is no viable alternative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to defend Europe, and he insisted the continent should increase military spending.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 16:50 UTC

    India and China no longer buying crude from Venezuela after Trump's threats

    According to vessel monitoring tracking services, crude loading operations are slowing down in Venezuelan ports

    The United States imposing a 25% tariff on countries importing oil and gas from Venezuela starting next month has already taken its toll on Caracas' coffers as India and China —accounting for over 50% of its crude exports— have halted purchases. China, which imported 351,000 barrels per day (bpd) last year, and India, with 254,000 bpd in January, are stepping back, with companies like India’s Reliance Industries planning to stop imports.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    Rubio off on strategic Caribbean tour

    Rubio's trip seeks broader security cooperation, similar to existing arrangements with some Gulf countries in the face of regional threats such as Iran, it was explained

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will embark on a two-day tour of the Caribbean, visiting Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname on Wednesday and Thursday to address energy security, economic development, and overall stability while making the region less dependent on Venezuelan oil. It is Rubio's second trip to the Americas since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025.

  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

    Maduro agrees to Trump’s repatriation flights for deported Venezuelans

    In a televised speech, Maduro also addressed Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, telling him “you're responsible.”

    Venezuela has agreed with the US Trump administration to resume repatriation flights for deported Venezuelan nationals, officials announced confirming first flights on Sunday. Jorge Rodriguez, Venezuela's National Assembly President said the goal was to “ensure the return of our countrymen with the protection of their human rights.”

  • Saturday, March 22nd 2025 - 09:36 UTC

    Significantly corrupt CFK banned from entering US

    The sanctions also apply to former Planning Minister Julio de Vido, current Congressman Máximo Kirchner, and his sister Florencia Kirchner

    The United States declared former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK, 2007-2015), her children Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, and former Planning Minister Julio de Vido significantly corrupt, banning them from entering the country, among other measures, for their involvement in significant corruption during CFK's back-to-back four-year terms.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

    Eduardo Bolsonaro to seek political asylum in the US

    Lula's allies claim it is a stunt ahead of the October 2026 presidential elections

    Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced he would be taking a leave from Parliament and remaining in the United States where he intends to seek political asylum at the suggestion of his legal team, who advised him against returning to the country as his freedom could be endangered by whatever Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes might decide. He traveled to the US on Feb. 27, 2025, initially for meetings and vacation.

  • Wednesday, March 19th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Caracas warns against US travel

    Jorge Rodríguez likened Washington's measure to a “vulgar kidnapping”

    Venezuela's Bolivarian Government issued earlier this week a travel advisory warning its citizens against visiting the United States following Washington's deportation of many Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador's maximum security Cecot prison.

  • Monday, March 17th 2025 - 12:43 UTC

    US convicts transferred to El Salvador's maximum security Cecot prison

    The US will pay El Salvador “a small fee” for housing these convicts at the Cecot (Pic EFE)

    Salvadoran authorities Sunday received 238 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs, expelled from the United States under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a law unused since World War II. President Nayib Bukele acknowledged their arrival and immediate transfer to the maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), built in 2023 to house high-profile criminals.

  • Monday, March 17th 2025 - 09:00 UTC

    US expels South African ambassador

    Rasool's pro-Palestinian views and criticism of Israel seemed to have also played a part in the measure

    The US Government expelled South Africa’s Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool this weekend after Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared him “persona non grata” for being a “race-baiting politician” who hates America and President Donald Trump. The decision followed Rasool’s comments during a South African think tank webinar, where he described Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement as a response to demographic shifts and a form of “supremacist assault.”

  • Saturday, March 15th 2025 - 10:57 UTC

    Canada will never be the US' 51st State, Carney says

    Carney wants to talk with Trump but will strengthen European alliances first

    Mark Carney was officially sworn in Friday as Canada's new Prime Minister before Governor General Mary Simon, the personal representative of King Charles. He insisted his country would not become Washington's 51st State, as suggested by US President Donald Trump. Canada “will never, ever, in any way, shape or form, be part of the United States,” he stressed.