By Simone Iglesias and Beatriz Reis* President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva toned down his criticism of the president of Brazil's central bank in an interview Thursday, in another sign that their frosty relationship is starting to thaw. "The president of the Republic should not quarrel with the president of the Central Bank," he said […]
Argentina's poultry sector is on alert. Following a finding in northern Argentina, the avian flu threatens poultry meat and egg production, confirmed in the country and in Uruguay this week. "It is very bad news because of the consequences it can bring in terms of bird mortality and production losses," said Javier Prida, president of […]
Lawyer and politician, president of the traditional Authentic Radical Liberal Party, Alegre leads the presidential campaign for the Concertation of parties seeking to break the tradition of the Colorado Party at the head of the Lopez Palace. Efraín Alegre Sasiain, 60 years old, is the candidate for president of Paraguay of the Concertación Nacional. This […]
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stressed that signing the Partial Scope Agreement of a Commercial Nature with Colombia lays the foundations for a new dynamic of trade expansion between the two nations. "The signing of this trade agreement that updates everything that has to do with tariffs, that updates everything that has to do with products […]
For the first time, women will be a majority in the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) of Honduras, following an election that Foreign Minister Enrique Reina already described as historic. "In the Government of the first woman President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, the CSJ is historically elected with a female majority. We hope this is […]
Mortgage volumes in Europe have collapsed. Buyers can no longer finance themselves with loans at the level of previous years due to significantly higher interest rates. And yet, the ECB has not yet spoken its last word on tightening monetary policy. Raising interest rates further will neither stop inflation nor prevent the real estate market’s […]
In an article published on Thursday 16th, George Soros, mogul and founder of the Open Society, which funds left-wing NGOs worldwide, analyzed the global picture in light of alleged climate change caused by human action and praised President Lula effusively. In his article “Global Warming, Hot Wars, Closed Societies,” Soros assumes that while “two systems […]
A little over a month after the inauguration, politicians who "made the L" to support the so-called "broad front" are disappointed with President Lula. The group reacted to a PT resolution published on Thursday (16). The document states that the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff was a "coup," defends "no amnesty" for the opposition, […]
The Ministry of Justice has warned that it does not intend to extend the deadline for the re-registration of firearms in the country. The 60-day deadline is already running and ends on April 2. According to Minister Flávio Dino, between 700,000 and 800,000 registered weapons are currently in circulation. So far, almost 665,000 have been […]
By Deltan Dallagnol (Opinion) Yesterday the PT party released a resolution calling Operation Lava Jato a gang. I will tell the story of this gang in full. It got everything in the way: it investigated, convicted, and dismantled the biggest corruption scheme in the history of Brazil. The gang made a big mistake. It was […]
Marcia Casz had just sold her sports marketing company to one of the largest in the Brazilian market, IMM Esportes & Entretenimento - becoming its sports director - when one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities arose. "The ATP 500 opened a 'date' - that is, one of the cities hosting a stage dropped out - something […]
For the first time, agribusiness exports exceeded US$10 billion in January. Last month, the segment sold US$10.23 billion abroad, a growth of 16.5% in relation to January 2022 and the best result in history for the month. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock released the numbers. In January, agribusiness accounted for 44.4% of Brazilian exports. […]
The number of deaths in Brazil increased by 18% in 2021 compared to death records in 2020. Two years ago, about 1.8 million deaths were recorded in the country, which is 273,000 more deaths than in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, which recorded 1.5 million. This is the new record in the historical […]
Last week saw the publication of “In buona fede: La religione nel XXI secolo” (In Good Faith: Religion in the 21st Century), a book-length interview with German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, who spares no sharp criticism of the Holy Father and his despotic way of running the Vatican. Rome went on high alert after the […]
More than a hundred parliamentarians from 14 Ibero-American and European nations have sent through Foro Madrid a letter to the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, through which they denounce “a destabilization process” promoted from abroad against Peru. “It is evident the leading role of the controversial Evo Morales in […]
By Nehomar Hernández (Opinion) In autocratic regimes, it might be thought that the worst punishment that anyone who dissents can expect is imprisonment or, even worse, physical elimination. However, history and even literature show that there can be something worse than both: to be the object of the symbolic firing squad. In reality, regimes such […]
By Alejandro Cuevas Olavarría The mini three-way summit organized by Macron at the Elysée last February 8 did not sit well in Rome. The President of the Italian Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, demonstrated this during the summit of European Union leaders in Brussels. That Emmanuel Macron summoned Olaf Scholz and Volodymir Zelensky to Paris […]
The Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic are advancing in fortifying the border with Haiti, almost 392 kilometers long, by installing an intelligent fence, erection of control towers, and constructing roads for surveillance and barracks, among other infrastructures. In a recent visit to the area, the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General (Army) Carlos Luciano Díaz […]
By Alexandre Garcia (Opinion) Whoever is managing the withdrawal of the 'garimpeiros' (gold diggers) from the Yanomami reserve is, in fact, generating a new crisis. These gold diggers are not international corporations but humble people who are there trying to make a living and have become desperate and are leaving anyway. The safest way out […]
The YouTube CEO announced that she would step down and be replaced by Neal Mohan, the current Chief Product Officer. Finally, the far-left activist and ringleader of Google’s censorship of its video platform, Susan Wojcicki, resigned as CEO of YouTube. The CEO will leave her position after nine years at the helm of the world’s […]
The leftist President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has admitted that the Government is having particular difficulties in forming teams due to the presence still in the institutions of "dozens of infiltrated bolsonaristas". "We must have a little patience because we have been in government for 40 days." "We haven't even managed to […]
By Diógenes Freire Lula’s ex-guerrilla friend and Colombian President Gustavo Petro has proposed a generous deal with narco-traffickers to avoid harsh justice punishments. Petro’s idea is to offer benefits – such as reduced sentences and permission for the accused to keep part of their fortune – in exchange for the criminals’ promise to give up […]
The Foreign Minister of Argentina, Santiago Cafiero, held a meeting yesterday, Thursday, with his counterpart of Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo, in which they agreed to strengthen the bilateral agenda and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), said the Argentine Foreign Ministry. The officials discussed in Buenos Aires various issues inherent to the broad bilateral and regional agenda […]
Bolivia reached a historical import figure in 2022 of US$13.049 billion, the private Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE) reported Thursday. IBCE’s technical manager, María Peña, said that imports broke a historical record after eight years when in 2014, it reached its highest figure with US$10.676 billion of external purchases in value. According to the […]
The automotive sector has constantly changed since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. A disrupted supply chain, a semiconductor crisis, and high inflation have driven the price of new and used vehicles. Even so, seven of nine countries analyzed reported an increase in new vehicle registrations between 2021 and 2022, with significant variations […]