Venezuelan gold, which once represented one of the largest reserves in the world, has been deeply reduced in the last years, with a loss of up to 10 tonnes in 2022, according to financial statements of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), reviewed by Reuters. With the fall of gold bars, the Caribbean country's reserves […]
The initiative to reduce the work week to 40 hours in Chile will continue to be discussed in Congress in March after the legislative break in February to continue the adjustments to a law that aims to impact the quality of life of workers by allowing them more time with their families, less travel time […]
"Chile again looks like a good house in a bad neighborhood". With this sentence, Bloomberg highlighted that Chile has begun to re-position itself as the safest country in the region for investment. Specifically, the country's risk has reached the lowest level in the last eight months; this risk is lower than that of Peru - […]
A person infected with the coronavirus has similar immunity to the covid-19 vaccine, according to a study in the scientific journal The Lancet, published on Thursday 16. One of the largest papers on the subject, it compiles 60 others and also considers the emergence of Omicron. "Although an infection provides protection that diminishes over time, […]
São Paulo State Secretary of Environment, Infrastructure and Logistics, Natália Resende, informed that the liberation of the Mogi-Bertioga road on the northern coast of São Paulo (SP) would occur in two months. The work started on Tuesday (21), costing almost R$10 million (US$1.93 million). The highway is blocked in both directions, between kilometers 77, in […]
Last week, Google filed an appeal against the decision by Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes to take down the Workers' Cause Party (PCO) channel on YouTube. According to big tech, removing the channel, without indicating illicit content, besides the impediment of new publications, configures "previous censorship". In June 2022, Moraes ordered the blocking […]
The Lula government is studying the possibility of reinstating visa requirements for US tourists who want to visit Brazil; the Hora Brasilia website reported Tuesday 21. The measure was extinguished in 2019 by then-president Jair Bolsonaro after a visit to Donald Trump. One of the justifications of the PT administration is that there was no […]
The Chilean government announced Tuesday (21) that it is offering residence and Chilean nationality to the more than 300 opponents arbitrarily expelled by the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. "The Chilean government will provide the necessary legal means to offer the proper international protection, which will allow them to reside in the country and […]
The President of the Italian Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, has announced that her government has launched a “war” against squatting. “The era in which the State looked the other way in the face of legality is over,” said the Italian leader on her Twitter account. Through a video posted on social networks on Monday, […]
The new auction of the Rodoanel Norte (North Ring Road), scheduled for March 14, intends to finally give a solution to the project, which the government of São Paulo has been trying to make viable for more than ten years. About a month before the bidding, two groups are firm in the dispute, according to […]
Of the 27 units of the Brazilian Federation, 14 had China as the leading destination of their exports in 2022. In 11 states, the proportion of total exports was small, less than 10%. Tocantins has the highest proportion: China was the destination of 54.1% of the state's foreign sales. In 2019, the last year before […]
The United States State Department has granted the extradition of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), requested by the South American country's judicial system for corruption crimes, the Peruvian Attorney General's Office announced Tuesday (21). "The Peruvian Attorney General's Office, as the central authority on extraditions, reports that it has learned that the State Department […]
The immense view through the glass windows of the eighth floor of a commercial building on Avenida Doutor Chucri Zaidan, in the south zone of São Paulo, overlooks the Tietê River and its intense movement of cars and trucks, no matter the hour or day of the week. Slightly formal, the room comprises a work […]
The restaurant's name - Trippa - was not a random choice, of course. And neither was the menu selection unconventional for other trattorias in Milan. There, alongside the ricotta-filled tortelli and the most photographed version in all of Italy of the classic vitello tonnato, are recipes less familiar to the general public: cibreo, finanziera, pajata. […]
The Swedish firm Saab has sent Brazil the first dismantled Gripen F-39E fighter to be assembled at Embraer's facilities in Gavião Peixoto, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Thus, the aircraft with serial number 6032 will be the first to be entirely assembled in the South American country. Specifically, the Swedish company […]
Historically, gambling is not one of the things the Great White North is known for. However, in recent years, many skilled Canadians have begun to make their names known in the gambling industry by achieving notable feats in Canadian casinos. Many of these players sharpen their skills using a real money online casino Canada to […]
The government of Argentina said on Tuesday (21) that no Russian citizen who has come to the country in the past year has obtained an Argentine passport amid the investigation by the Justice Department into the thousands of pregnant Russian women who travel to the country to give birth and presumably obtain this document. "No […]
Regarding how football came to be in Brazil, the details are more complex than you’d like. Football in Brazil goes as far back as the early 1890s – at least, that’s what some people believe. However, the history of Brazilian football is associated with the national team’s first international match in 1914. If you are […]
The crystal-clear river flowing between giant boulders was a strategic guerrilla route in Colombia. The bloody internal war kept the Guape Canyon hidden for decades, whose waters are now enjoyed by tourists in multi-colored floats. Peace unveiled this 35-meter-deep natural wonder in the town of La Uribe, department of Meta (south). Its passageways, illuminated with […]
By Bruna Komarchesqui This month, a bill presented by federal congressman Mauricio Neves (PP/SP) proposes the creation of an anti-greed law limiting the charging of interest rates in Brazil. PL 398/2023 suggests forbidding "interest that exceeds 100% of the value of the good or service financed by credit card and/or overdraft". The idea is that […]
The governor of São Paulo, Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas, announced today a field hospital with 300 beds to serve the victims of the rain that hit cities on the northern coast of São Paulo. The hospital will start operating on Thursday, Feb. 23r. According to Freitas; the hospital will work on a Navy ship. "There […]
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Peru informed this Tuesday that it had formalized a preliminary investigation against former President Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), and against two of his former ministers, for alleged acts of corruption in his government. “The Prosecutor’s Office of the Nation formalized the preparatory investigation against the former President of the Republic, Pedro […]
Judge José Henrique Crescendo, from the 22nd Federal Civil Court in São Paulo, rejected a lawsuit from the Union Public Defender's Office (DPU) to suspend the validity of a 2020 opinion from the Federal Medical Council (CFM) that allows doctors to prescribe chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19. In the decision, the magistrate […]