Pilot testing of the digital currency of the Brazilian central bank has been successfully completed, according to the companies that conducted the tests. According to local press reports, the test was conducted with the "Real Digital" on the Stellar payment platform, which enables the issuance and management of virtual assets, wallets, and keys. Stellar is […]
Global Witness released a new report on Dec. 6 summarizing more than a year of research showing how agricultural exporters ADM and Cargill purchase soybeans from companies or producers implicated in at least seven human rights abuse cases against indigenous people and peasant communities in eastern Paraguay. In the report titled "Tainted Meals: How Europe's […]
The collegiate meeting of Anvisa decided, on the morning of Wednesday (1), to suspend the mandatory use of masks in airplanes and airports. According to the agency's director, Alex Machado Campos, the decision was made after the end of the holiday season and Carnival, which increased movement in the country's terminals. "Parallel to this, the […]
The International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, announced emergency negotiations with Iran after finding uranium particles enriched to 83.7% purity at its Fordow nuclear plant. “On January 22, 2023, the agency took environmental samples…at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), the analytical results of which showed this week the presence of highly […]
The Attorney General of Colombia, Francisco Barbosa, pointed out that the government of Gustavo Petro is trying to give rise to an "amnesty" to drug traffickers through a bill that the Ministry of Justice has introduced in Congress to "humanize the penalties" imposed on those who incur in crimes linked to the production and distribution […]
Santa Catarina has already finished the 2022/23 harvest and accounts for more than 550,000 tonnes of onions, the largest volume of recent years, and keeps the state as the largest producer in the country. The Notícias Agrícolas website released the information on Monday (27). The increase in this estimate was pulled especially by the new […]
The Brazilian government aims to promote the use of local currencies in trade with Uruguay, as well as to boost physical and energy integration with that country, a Foreign Ministry source told Sputnik. "As is known, Brazil is also interested in expanding the use of local currencies in regional trade to reduce our dependence on […]
The sharp rise in prices, the growth of tourism, falling wages, and an impotent regulatory law form a lethal cocktail for tenants. The abrupt decline in supply affects thousands of people all over the country. The adverse economic situation the southern country is going through has repercussions in different areas of the population’s daily life. […]
According to a report by Bloomberg, the Ford F-150 electric car and the aluminum required for its manufacture are generating high levels of pollution in the Amazon that are already affecting the resident population. Bloomberg located the company Hydro Alunorte, owned by Norks Hydro and with capital from the Norwegian Government, in the region of […]
By Yolanda Salazar "The world sends us garbage; we send it back music," is the motto of Paraguay's Cateura Recycled Instruments Orchestra, which arrived in Bolivia to sow "a seed" and encourage young people to make their own violins and drums from recycled materials. Some 45 young people who make up the orchestra live near […]
The US company Tesla, owned by tycoon Elon Musk, will install an electric car factory in the city of Monterrey (north), with an investment of about US$5 billion, the Mexican government announced Tuesday (28). The company's arrival in Mexico was confirmed early Tuesday by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who said he sealed the deal […]
The El Encanto farm, nestled in a mountain in central Honduras, is working with half the coffee pickers it needs because of the migration of thousands of people to the United States. The drama is repeated throughout Central America, where, faced with a shortage of people for the harvest, coffee growers see the fruits and […]
The Brazilian president was heavily criticized after announcing that the BNES could finance Argentina's Vaca Muerta gas pipeline, which is considered a threat to the climate and indigenous peoples. After committing himself to recover the protagonism in the fight for the environment in Brazil, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, surprised us by […]
By Itana Alencar Bahia was the state that recorded the most violent deaths in 2022, throughout Brazil, for the 4th consecutive year. The data are part of the Violence Monitor, a national homicide index created by g1, based on official information from 26 states and the Federal District. The survey was released this Wednesday (1). […]
The South African flag carrier is in the midst of restructuring after being resurrected by its country's government and gaining a new private partner, still during the pandemic. Before Covid-19, the company had already been in financial difficulties, and the virus led to the cutting of most operations, including the flight to Brazil that it […]
By Clara Velasco* The number of murders fell by 1% in Brazil in 2022. There were 40,800 violent deaths nationwide - an average of more than 110 victims per day. This is what the national homicide index created by g1 shows, based on official data from 26 states and the Federal District. The number of […]
This small community is famous for having driven mining companies out of their Amazonian territory in northern Ecuador. The Cofán Avie natives have yet another mysterious and fascinating particularity: they are masters of Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic medicinal plant and gateway "to the world of spirits." "God once lived here, on this planet," says 63-year-old Isidro […]
The Antinarcotics Directorate of the Colombian National Police (PNC) is finalizing the entry into service of its new Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 600 aircraft (registration PNC-0276), acquired last year. This aircraft, purchased for US$12 million, represents a milestone in Colombian police aviation, given the operational capabilities it provides to the institution in modernizing its fleet, a […]
By Luiz Philippe Orleans e Bragança* (Opinion) The Army and the Armed Forces may be intact, but the deterioration of their image and reputation in Brazil is irreversible. Exposed by the demonstrations that occupied the front of the barracks for 60 days all over the country, there was the perception in public opinion that the […]
Petrobras announced on Tuesday (Feb. 28) the reduction of gasoline and diesel prices starting today (Mar. 1) for distributors. The measure comes one day after the government agreed to resume taxation on fuel, despite political pressure. Petrobras shares fell 3.48% (PN) and 4.39% (ON) at the close of Tuesday after the announcement of price cuts […]
By Florian Rötzer President Nayib Bukele built a prison for 40,000 suspected gang members according to the security strategy through incarceration. During the crackdown on gang crime with the Plan Control Territorial, more than 60,000 members were arrested in one year in El Salvador, which has a population of just 6.5 million, using controversial methods […]
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office requested this Tuesday 36 months of preventive imprisonment for alleged corruption against former president Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), who is already under preliminary detention in a Lima jail while he is being investigated for “rebellion”. “The request for preventive detention for 36 months corresponds to the criminal proceedings for the crimes of […]
The company Itaipú Binacional, created by Brazil and Paraguay to build 50 years ago the hydroelectric power plant of the same name, which is currently the second largest in the world, paid yesterday, Tuesday, the last installment of the debt it acquired to execute the project. The company informed in a press release that the […]
The vacancy rate in 2022 was 9.3%. The annual result is the lowest since 2015, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released on Tuesday. Brazil ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with a decline in the unemployment rate, consolidating a recovery trend in the labor market after the impact […]