By Horst Teubert and Dr. Peer Heinelt NATO will selectively expand cooperation with Japan and work more closely than before with the East Asian country through its traditional forces in cyber defense and space. The world has reached “a historic turning point” where the “balance of power in the Indo-Pacific is shifting rapidly,” according to […]
Minister Benedito Gonçalves of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) decided to restore the monetization of 11 right-wing channels on YouTube. The decision of this Friday, Mar. 3, provides that the amounts will remain withheld and "at the court's disposal, until further deliberation. This means that the channels' owners can ask the platforms for the […]
By Eli Vieira The most recent edition of the Index of Academic Freedom (ILA), prepared by researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and three other institutions, shows a stagnation of academic freedom in 152 of the 179 countries analyzed and a decline in 22 of them, including Brazil. Only in five small countries […]
By Vandré Kramer High interest rates. Tighter credit, with companies like Americanas in crisis and increased defaults. Government noise, pressuring inflation expectations and interest rates. End of post-Covid economic momentum. The combination of these factors contributes to an increasingly evident slowdown in economic activity. One of the signals was the 0.2% shrinkage of GDP in […]
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) in Paraná, Carolina Bonfadini de Sá, asked the Federal Court to disqualify the new Lava Jato judge, Eduardo Appio, who considers Luiz Lula da Silva, innocent in the processes to which he has been subjected. The left has been desperately trying for months to clear the past of Brazil's […]
By Diógenes Freire Through a document released this Friday (Mar. 3) in Geneva, a group of experts from the United Nations (UN) equated the regime of Nicaraguan dictator and friend of Lula, Daniel Ortega, to the Nazi regime. According to the experts, Ortega and his agents "have committed and continue to commit serious and systematic […]
Inflation in Uruguay moderated to 7.55 percent in the mobile year ending in February, informed the National Statistics Institute (INE) yesterday, Friday. The increase of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the last 12 months slowed down compared to the accumulated record of January 2023 (8.05) and February 2022 (8.84). The CPI increase last February […]
Revenues to the Chilean Treasury recorded an annual increase of 9.1 percent in January 2023, mainly influenced by higher property income due to the growth in the collection of lithium exploitation contracts and by the taxation of private mining, the Budget Office informed yesterday, Friday. The agency stated in a press release that Chile’s total […]