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Argentina's President Javier Milei smiles before delivering the keynote address next to the chairman of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Sheraton hotel in Asunción on September 16, 2025.

Milei rejects ‘moderate option’ as he hails Charlie Kirk at CPAC Paraguay

Yesterday 23:29 At CPAC in Asunción, Argentina’s President warns against ‘third way’ politics, praises Paraguay’s economic model and meets his counterpart and ally Santiago Peña.

Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira delivers a speech during a meeting between South America's Mercosur bloc and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) representatives at Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 16, 2025.

MERCOSUR-EFTA AGREEMENT

Mercosur and EFTA sign free-trade deal in Rio de Janeiro

Yesterday 18:42 Deal creates a market of 300 million people and covers some US$4 trillion in GDP; Brazil brands it a “clear signal” against US protectionism led by Trump.

BONDS & MARKETS

Foreign investors with Argentina FOMO pile into Brazil stocks

Yesterday 11:35 Afraid of missing out on an Argentina-like rally, investors are piling into Brazil on bets that a business-friendly candidate will win next year’s election.

US President Donald Trump (left) and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (right).

TRUMP’S TRADE WAR

Bolsonaro conviction 'not a witch hunt,' Lula tells Trump in NYT op-ed

15-09-2025 12:56 Brazil President Lula writes in ‘New York Times’ op-ed addressed to Donald Trump that he is "proud" of Supreme Court decision to convict far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro on coup charges.

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Meet the man who wants to run Latin America's most valuable company like a start-up

15-09-2025 10:29 Who is MercadoLibre's new CEO, the man who wants to run Latin America's most valuable company like a start-up? Ariel Szarfsztejn is inheriting the mantle of the e-commerce and fintech giant from Marcos Galperin at a time of mounting competition and talent constraints.

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pray with Brazilian and US flags near his house in Brasilia on September 11, 2025. Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced firebrand ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for coup plotting at the end of a landmark trial that divided the nation and drew US fury.

BRAZILIAN POLITICS

In divided Brasília, some celebrate Bolsonaro conviction, others fume

12-09-2025 11:17 Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison after being convicted of plotting to claw back power from his elected successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva through force in 2022.

BRAZILIAN EX-PRESIDENT

Bolsonaro found guilty of coup plot, given 27 years in jail

11-09-2025 16:08 Historic Supreme Court conviction in Brazil; Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting a military coup in bid to overturn 2022 election loss by three justices.

A chartered flight carrying 17 Argentines deported from the United States landed at Ezeiza International Airport in the early hours of Thursday, September 11, 2025.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Flight carrying Argentines deported from US lands in Buenos Aires

11-09-2025 08:43 First Trump-era deportation flight to Buenos Aires brings 17 Argentines back; Milei government tried to keep operation quiet and will not complain to Washington, but nation has been grouped alongside Brazil and Venezuela by the US administration.

Paraguay's President Santiago Peña and Argentina's President Javier Milei hug during a joint press conference following a meeting at the Palacio de Lopez government palace in Asunción on April 9, 2025.

Foreign policy & diplomacy

Milei plans visit to Paraguay for Peña meeting and CPAC event

10-09-2025 17:38 President to meet Paraguayan counterpart, address conservative summit after scrapping Spain trip for far-right rally.

Uruguay's Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone.

Uruguayan politics

Uruguay’s finance minister shuns chainsaw for modest tax hikes

10-09-2025 15:50 Orsi government lays out plans to lower budget deficit through tax increases early in its term to avoid politically contentious spending cuts or additional levies later down the line.

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro gestures from his residence in Brasília on September 3, 2025.

BRAZILIAN EX-PRESIDENT

Jair Bolsonaro on brink of conviction in Brazil coup trial

10-09-2025 10:04 Forme president risks a prison term of over 40 years if found guilty of seeking to stay in power after his defeat in 2022 elections.

Xi Jinping, China’s president, left, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, shake hands during a signing event at the Alvorada Palace in Brasília, Brazil, on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.

WORLD ECONOMY

BRICS leaders denounce protectionism, tariff 'blackmail'

08-09-2025 14:40 Several BRICS members are among those most affected by what Lula referred to Monday as "tariff blackmail" and "unjustified and illegal" trade practices.

Investigators used drones to record movements on the Finca Karina estate. The image shows dozens of vehicles on the riverbank, while boats transport packages of merchandise.

CRIME & SECURITY

Finca Karina: Police shut down illegal border crossing on Argentina-Bolivia border

05-09-2025 18:26 Court investigation exposes estate where organisation made nearly three billion pesos a year through a clandestine border pass at Finca Karina, located on the banks of the Bermejo River in Salta; Group of at least 11 people ran it, including a police officer; Some 300 vehicles are estimated to have entered every day to cross border with smuggled goods.

Argentina's skipper Lionel Messi hugs his sons ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup South American qualifiers football match between Argentina and Venezuela at the Mas Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires on September 4, 2025.

GRACIAS LEO! THANK YOU!

Messi bags a brace, enjoys last World Cup qualifier to fullest

05-09-2025 00:22 On a night of tears, standing ovations and plenty of joy, in his final South American qualifier, Argentina’s No. 10 Lionel Messi bags two in a 3-0 victory over Venezuela.

A fan of Universidad de Chile bleeds while being hit by fans of Independiente during the interruption of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 second leg football match between Argentina's Independiente and Chile's Universidad de Chile at the Libertadores de America stadium in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on August 20, 2025.

Football violence

Independiente disqualified from Copa Sudamericana over stadium brawl

04-09-2025 21:43 Argentine side must also play its next 14 matches in CONMEBOL tournaments without its fans and pay a US$250,000 fine.

Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello greets supporters during a rally called by the ruling party in Caracas on August 28, 2024.

REGIONAL TENSIONS

Latin American nations concerned by US-Venezuela tension

04-09-2025 16:04 Washington ramps up regional crime fight; Trump confirms Washington killed 11 “terrorists” when it took down a boat allegedly carrying drugs into international waters.

A worker oversees the movement of shipping containers.

EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL

EU pushes ahead with bid to ratify Mercosur free-trade deal

03-09-2025 14:50 Agreement needs approval of the European Parliament and a qualified majority of its 27 member states.

EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas and EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional relations and Transparency Maros Sefcovic hold a press conference on the Mercosur trade agreement, at the EU headquarters, in Brussels, on September 3, 2025.

EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL

EU presents Mercosur deal for member states' approval

03-09-2025 11:23 Agreement would form a 700-million-customer free-trade area – the world's biggest – but it still faces opposition in Europe over agricultural concerns.

Trump posted a video online of an open-topped speedboat carrying a number of people traveling on a body of water before it exploded in a ball of flames.

NARCO-TRAFFICKING ALLEGATIONS

US says 11 killed in strike on 'drug-carrying boat' from Venezuela

02-09-2025 21:20 Maduro declares Venezuela is prepared for "a period of armed struggle in defence of the national territory" as tensions rise.

Workers inspect trucks arriving with pipes for the new construction of the Oldelval (Oleoductos del Valle) pipeline network to transport oil from Vaca Muerta at an YPF mining camp in the Province of Neuquén, Argentina, on March 13.

OIL & GAS

Uruguay to pitch pipeline route for Vaca Muerta’s natural gas

02-09-2025 14:25 Uruguay to pitch a natural gas pipeline through its territory that would link Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale deposit with Brazil.

Argentina's President Javier Milei, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Paraguay's President Santiago Peña pose for the family picture of the LXV Mercosur Summit in Montevideo on December 6, 2024.

EU-MERCOSUR TRADE DEAL

EU to present Mercosur trade deal for member state approval

01-09-2025 13:40 Deal is backed by a wide majority of EU countries keen to diversify trade away from the United States, but France remains staunchly opposed.

An anti-government protester holds a banner against Argentina's President Javier Milei next to supporters of the ruling La Libertad Avanza party as she protests during a motorcade led by Milei in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province, on August 27, 2025

THE WEEK IN REIVEW

Stories that caught our eye: August 22 to 29

29-08-2025 17:06 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Venezuela's Minister of Interior Relations, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello speaks during a press conference in Caracas on August 25, 2025.

EXPLAINER

United States targets Venezuela over 'Soles' cartel – but does it exist?

29-08-2025 07:36 While some of US President Donald Trump's right-wing led allies in South America have echoed his designation of the 'Cártel de los Soles' as a terrorist organisation, many have doubts such a group even exists.

A worker walks between two industrial evaporation pools at a lithium production facility in the Uyuni Salt Flats in Potosí, Bolivia.

Lithium in Latin America

Untapped lithium riches are in crosshairs of Bolivian candidate

28-08-2025 15:08 Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga’s approach to lithium is much more dramatic than his centrist opponent Rodrigo Paz, who has vowed to seek consensus with local communities and regions.

CRIME & SECURITY

Argentina adds ‘Cártel de los Soles’ to terrorism crime registry

26-08-2025 18:47 Argentina further aligns with Washington’s security agenda by adding alleged Venezuelan-linked network to terrorism register.

AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK

Chile suspends poultry imports from Argentina over bird flu

26-08-2025 12:19 Chile suspended poultry imports from Argentina on Monday after detecting an outbreak of avian influenza.

Mercosur leaders and invited guests: (Left to right, back row) Ecuador's Vice-President María José Pinto, Panama's President José Raúl Mulino, and Chile's Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren; (Left to right, front row) Paraguay's President Santiago Peña, Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina's President Javier Milei, Bolivia's President Luis Arce Catacora and Uruguay's President Yamandú Orsi, wave as they pose for the family photo during the 66th Summit of Leaders of Mercosur and Associated States at the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires.

TRADE & COMMERCE

Mercosur and Canada to resume talks over free-trade agreement

26-08-2025 10:26 Amid trade tensions sparked by Donald Trump's tariff war, Mercosur and Canada are set to resume negotiations on a free-trade agreement.

Bolivia's former President (2001-2002) and presidential candidate Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga speaks during an interview with AFP on August 25, 2025, in La Paz, Bolivia.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION 2025

Bolivia candidate Jorge Quiroga vows to scrap China, Russia lithium deals

26-08-2025 09:44 Bolivian right-wing presidential hopeful Jorge 'Tuyo' Quiroga vows to scrap billion-dollar lithium extraction deals struck by the outgoing government with Russia and China, if elected in October 19 run-off.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, centre, and his sons Eduardo Bolsonaro, left, and Flavio Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.

BRAZILIAN POLITICS

Bolsonaro’s family dynasty creaks under pressure of Brazil coup trial

25-08-2025 13:55 The once-united Bolsonaro clan is creaking under the pressure, leaving the coalition of centre-right parties in their orbit in disarray.

Chile's Interior and Public Security Minister Álvaro Elizalde gives a press conference at the Pedro Fiorito public hospital in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, on August 22, 2025, after visiting Universidad de Chile fans hospitalized following the abandonment of a Copa Sudamericana match between Independiente and Universidad de Chile due to sustained crowd violence. Chile's President Gabriel Boric said on Friday that 104 Universidad de Chile fans detained in Argentina after clashes during the Copa Sudamericana match against Independiente had been released.

Hooligan violence

Detained Chileans freed two days after football fan brawl in Argentina

22-08-2025 17:24 Authorities releases 104 Chileans detained following a bloody brawl that erupted during Copa Sudamericana match between Independiente and Universidad de Chile.

Carlos Alberto ‘Charly’ García, 73, was awarded a doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: August 15 to 22

22-08-2025 11:05 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

A fan of Universidad de Chile prepares to throw a stone during the interruption of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 second leg football match between Argentina's Independiente and Chile's Universidad de Chile at the Libertadores de America stadium in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina on August 20, 2025.

IN FOCUS

Why fan violence still sullies Latin American football

21-08-2025 19:20 From Mexico to Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador, stadium violence continues to mar the beautiful game in football-mad Latin America.

FOOTBALL VIOLENCE

Blame game begins after fan violence at continental cup tie

21-08-2025 15:19 More than 100 arrests, serious injuries and a diplomatic fallout in the wake of hooligan brawl at Independiente’s Copa Sudamericana clash with Universidad de Chile; Authorities play blame game as Chile, FIFA, CONMEBOL condemns violence.

Members of the media work outside a police station where fans of Universidad de Chile are detained a day after the interruption of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 second leg football match between Argentina's Independiente and Chile's Universidad de Chile in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, on August 21, 2025, due to clashes between rival fans.

FOOTBALL VIOLENCE

Football game ends in violence as Argentines clash with Chileans

21-08-2025 14:28 Reports of injuries Wednesday night varied from more than a hundred to dozens at the Copa Sudamericana match between Independiente of Argentina and Universidad de Chile.

A fan of Independiente shouts during the interruption of the Copa Sudamericana round of 16 second leg football match between Argentina's Independiente and Chile's Universidad de Chile at the Libertadores de America stadium in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, Argentina on August 20, 2025

Hooliganism in stadiums

Ten hurt, 90 arrested as match abandoned amid football fan violence

21-08-2025 08:40 Ninety arrests and 10 people injured amid violent clashes between rival fans during a Copa Sudamericana match involving Independiente and Universidad de Chile in Buenos Aires.

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina's President Javier Milei.

POLITICS IN BRAZIL

Police in Brazil say Bolsonaro drafted asylum plea to Milei in 2024

20-08-2025 22:37 Brazilian police claim that ex-president Jair Bolsonaro drafted request asylum from Javier Milei in Argentina in February 2024 as coup probe against him gathered pace.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION 2025

From TikTok to frontrunner: Rodrigo Paz's presidential campaign in Bolivia

20-08-2025 09:15 Rodrigo Paz is hardly an outsider. His experience in politics runs two decades deep, having served as mayor, councillor, deputy and senator. His popularity has only grown since adding Edman Lara – nicknamed "Captain Lara" – to the ticket as vice-president.

Fábio and his family celebrate the landmark achievement.

RECORD-BREAKER

Brazilian goalkeeper Fábio claims world record for most football matches

20-08-2025 08:51 Brazilian goalie Fábio Deivson Lopes Maciel claims to have made his 1,391st competitive appearance in men's football – a world record.

CHILEAN ELECTION 2025

Frontrunners in Chile's presidential race offer contrasting futures

19-08-2025 10:12 Eight candidates are running to be Chile's next president, with right winger José Antonio Kast – who has run for the top office twice before – and leftist Jeannette Jara leading the polls.

A HSBC Holdings Plc office building stands above the Paseo del Bajo underground highway project under construction in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, April 12, 2019.

REMOTE, HYBRID OR IN-OFFICE?

Half of Argentine workers prefer hybrid model, survey shows

18-08-2025 17:25 Given the choice, a majority of workers in Argentina would prefer a model of two days remote, three days in office – but in reality just 17% are not required to attend their workplace full-time.

Former Bolivian president and presidential candidate for the Alianza Libre coalition, Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga Ramírez (left) and Bolivian presidential candidate for the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Rodrigo Paz.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION 2025

Paz or 'Tuto'? Meet the two candidates who will duel for Bolivian Presidency

18-08-2025 16:59 Jorge Quiroga and Rodrigo Paz, two right-wing candidates, head into a run-off for president of Bolivia.

A man reads newspapers with front-page coverage of Bolivia's presidential election at a kiosk, in La Paz, on August 18, 2025.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION 2025

Vote for change in Bolivia as two right-wing candidates head to presidential run-off

18-08-2025 13:42 Senator Rodrigo Paz was the surprise frontrunner, with 32.15 percent of the vote cast in an election dominated by a deep economic crisis, results published by the electoral commission showed.

An indigenous voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in La Paz on August 17.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION 2025

Voters end two decades of socialist rule in Bolivia

18-08-2025 12:52 Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election run-off, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule.

GUEST COLUMN

Argentina: A country that I call home

16-08-2025 07:05 "Argentina is a land of breath-taking diversity, geographically, culturally and gastronomically. As I bid farewell, I leave with immense gratitude," writes Nur Azman Rahim, Malaysia’s outgoing ambassador to Argentina, Paraguay & Uruguay.

A supporter of ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demonstrates at the weekly pensioners protest outside Congress in Buenos Aires.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: August 8 to 15

15-08-2025 16:51 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Peru's President Dina Boluarte (C) shows the signed document next to the President of the Cabinet, Eduardo Arana (R), and the Vice President of the Congress, Fernando Rospigliosi (L), during a ceremony enacting an amnesty law for military and police personnel prosecuted for human rights violations at the Government Palace in Lima on August 13, 2025. Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday enacted a controversial amnesty law for military and police personnel prosecuted for human rights violations during the armed conflict that ravaged the country between 1980 and 2000.

Human rights

Peru's president signs military crimes amnesty bill into law

13-08-2025 17:36 Peruvian President Dina Boluarte signs controversial bill granting amnesty to military personnel, police and members of civilian self-defence units over a bloody 1980-2000 campaign against leftist guerrillas.

Bolivia's former president Evo Morales gestures as he speaks during an interview with AFP in the coca-growing town of Lauca Eñe, Chapare region, Bolivia on August 11, 2025.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION

Evo Morales threatens mass protests if Bolivia swings right

13-08-2025 12:44 Evo Morales vows stiff resistance to any liberal reforms, should a right-wing candidate emerge triumphant in the upcoming general election.

LABOUR IN LATAM

UNICEF: Girls in Latin America doing double domestic work of boys

12-08-2025 17:18 Amount of time dedicated to domestic work by adolescent girls in Latin America is almost double the time spent by boys, according to UNICEF study.

Brazil's Ambassador in Argentina Julio Bitelli.

Interview

Julio Bitelli: ‘I don’t rule out a Milei-Lula bilateral meeting’

12-08-2025 14:19 Brazil's Ambassador in Argentina Julio Bitelli discusses bilateral relations, commercial ties and whether the leaders of the two presidents will ever meet.

by Pablo Varela

Bolivia elections 2025

Bolivia’s right wing on cusp of power in vote in 20-year first

12-08-2025 12:46 Samuel Doria Medina and Jorge Quiroga lead the polls for the August 17 elections in Bolivia. One is a former president and the other a millionaire – either one is likely put an end to two decades of left-wing governments.

Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga, Samuel Doria Medina, Andrónico Rodríguez.

BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS 2025

Quiroga, Doria Medina, Rodríguez – Three candidates to watch in Bolivia's election

12-08-2025 11:39 A closer look at Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga, Samuel Doria Medina, Andrónico Rodríguez ahead of this Sunday's election.

WORLD ECONOMY

Xi takes aim at US ‘protectionism’ in phone call with Lula

12-08-2025 10:56 Brazil President Lula and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on “upholding multilateralism” through the Group of 20 and BRICS.

Elections in Bolvia

Bolivian right extends its polling lead in race for president

11-08-2025 16:42 Business magnate Samuel Doria Medina and ex-president Jorge Quiroga lead the polls heading into Sunday's election in Bolivia, which is likely to see the left ejected from power.

A farmworker harvests soybeans in Pace, Mississippi, United States, on Thursday, October 7, 2021.

Agriculture

Trump urges China to quadruple US soy buying, lifting prices

11-08-2025 08:52 Donald Trump says he hopes China will massively step up its purchases of US soybeans.

the week in review

Stories that caught our eye: August 1 to 8

08-08-2025 19:40 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Former Bolivian president and presidential candidate for the Alianza Libre ('Free Alliance') coalition, Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga Ramírez, gestures during a visit to popular markets in La Paz on August 7, 2025. Bolivia will hold presidential elections on August 17.

ELECTION IN BOLIVIA

Bolivia right-wing presidential hopeful vows 'radical change'

08-08-2025 11:33 One of the front-runners in Bolivia's upcoming presidential election, right-winger Jorge Quiroga, is a declared supporter of Argentina's Javier Milei. He predicts the country was poised for "radical change" after two decades of socialist rule.

COLOMBIA

Colombian ex-president Álvaro Uribe found guilty of witness-tampering

29-07-2025 11:32 Colombian court finds Álvaro Uribe guilty of witness-tampering in controversial decision, making him the South American country's first ex-president to be convicted of a crime.

MILEI'S ARGENTINA

The price of verbal violence

18-07-2025 05:17 Old behavioural norms are no longer respected. There are no limits to violent languages nor to intrusion into the private lives of people. Privacy is dead.

by Jaime Duran Barba

In Argentina, one in four households is now a 'single-person household.'

SOCIETY

Living alone: one in four Argentine homes has a single occupant

16-07-2025 22:23 Argentina tops the region for solo households and low fertility, signalling deep demographic change. Experts warn of an ageing population and urge urgent reforms to pensions and healthcare.

by Enrique Garabetyan

Aerial view of the citadel of Peñico, located in the province of Huaura, Lima Department, Peru, on July 12, 2025.

HISTORY & CULTURE

Peñico: Peruvian citadel that is nearly 4,000 years old opens doors to tourists

14-07-2025 10:20 Site of 3,800-year-old citadel from the Caral civilisation, one of the oldest in the world and located in northern Peru, opens to the public after eight years of scientific studies and restoration work.

In this aerial view members of the Argentine Naval Prefecture inspect a dead whale on the shores of the Río de la Plata river in Vicente López, Buenos Aires Province, on July 9, 2025.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: July 4 to 11

11-07-2025 17:22 A selection of stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025.

WORLD ECONOMY

Trump’s Brazil tariffs risk upending trade from coffee to beef

10-07-2025 17:16 US President Donald Trump’s unexpected move to threaten a 50 percent tariff on Brazil risks roiling global commodity markets, disrupting trade on everything from beef to coffee.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on July 9, 2025.

TRUMP'S TARIFF WAR

Trump unveils 50% Brazil levy in response to Bolsonaro trial

09-07-2025 21:22 US President Donald Trump announces 50% tariff targeting Brazil as he blasted the trial of the country's ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro.

BOLSONARO ROW

Trump, Lula clash over politically charged coup trial

07-07-2025 15:27 US-Brazil relations slide into crisis after Trump criticised the high-profile coup trial of right-wing ally, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, and Lula snaps back.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during a plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025. BRICS leaders at a summit on Sunday took aim at US President Donald Trump's "indiscriminate" import tariffs and recent Israeli-US strikes on Iran.

TRADE WAR

BRICS criticism brings Trump 10% tariff threat

07-07-2025 14:00 BRICS leaders describe Trump's stop-start tariff wars as "indiscriminate", damaging, and illegal, drawing a quick rebuke from the pugilistic US president.

A snowman is pictured on a snow-covered beach in Miramar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on June 30, 2025.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: June 27 to July 4

04-07-2025 18:09 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

This aerial view shows the coast of the Weg naar Zee resort in Paramaribo on May 23, 2025. Coastal erosion is spreading in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, a small South American country affected by rapid sea level rise caused by climate change.

Environment & rights

Inter-American court says states must protect people from climate change

04-07-2025 09:35 Decision means that around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean – including Argentina – must undertake legal reforms to protect populations from climate change.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentina's President Javier Milei pose for the family photo during the 66th Summit of Leaders of Mercosur and Associated States at the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025.

ANALYSIS

Lula hugs it out with Milei, but saves warm embrace for Fernández de Kirchner

03-07-2025 18:43 The sharp divides roiling Latin American politics were visible in a pair of hugs.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Argentina's former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is under house arrest, at her apartment in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025.

CRISTINA & THE COURTS

Brazil's Lula pledges 'solidarity' as he visits house-confined Fernández de Kirchner

03-07-2025 18:34 Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, condemned to house arrest as she serves a six-year jail term for corruption-related offences, hosts Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at her apartment in Buenos Aires.

Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein speaks with President Javier Milei on arrival for the 66th Summit of Leaders of Mercosur and Associated States at the Palacio San Martín in Buenos Aires on July 3, 2025.

MERCOSUR SUMMIT

Milei urges Mercosur to pursue greater trade openness at summit

03-07-2025 11:58 President Javier Milei urges Mercosur partners to push for greater trade openness within the bloc as he opened a summit in Buenos Aires.