Members of the Paraguayan opposition often compare the ruling Colorado Party to Mexico’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which held power continuously for 71 years from 1929 to 2000. The right-wing Colorado Party ruled for 61 years, 34 of them during a dictatorship-until a brief interruption from 2008 to 2013, since when the party has always […]
"No one has a choice here." On the occasion of the parliamentary elections in Cuba on Sunday, March 26, the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) points out that the Caribbean island has been a one-party dictatorship since 1959, with all other parties banned except the Communist Party. There are only 450 candidates for 450 […]
According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sending an intervention force to Haiti is being discussed in Washington. President Joe Biden will discuss the matter during his visit to Canada. For months, Haitian rulers and the UN have called for a new international mission to stabilize the Western hemisphere’s poorest country, plagued by gang […]
Last week, Eletronuclear (a state-owned company responsible for nuclear power generation in the country) was fined by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama). The fine was due to radioactively contaminated water being discharged into the sea by the Angra 1 power plant last September. The incident, which became the target of […]
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCR) lowered most of its projections for the Peruvian economy for 2023 as the country continues to face a social and political crisis that affected its economy in January and a more complex global outlook. The BCR now expects private investment to contract by 0.5% at the end of […]
The visit of a Honduran delegation to China to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations has caused the Taiwanese government to recall its ambassador Vivía Chun-fei Chang in the Central American country, as a sign of "its strong dissatisfaction", reported Thursday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Taiwan. Last week, Honduran President Xiomara Castro […]
Mexico's economic activity beat all estimates in January 2023, expanding at the fastest annual pace in five months amid a recovery in the country that continues faster than expected. Activity in Latin America's second-largest economy grew 4.4% from a year earlier, Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported on Friday, March 24. The […]
The advisors of the New Development Bank (NDB), also known as the BRICS Bank, elected former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (PT) as the institution's new trustee on Friday (24). The election took place unanimously after the end of the term of Marcos Troyjo, who announced his resignation at the beginning of March. "On March 24, […]
On the Day of the Sea, the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, proposed to his Chilean counterpart, Gabriel Boric, to open a dialogue agenda to solve issues pending for 144 years. Social movements expressed their disappointment because Boric didn't fulfill what he said. March 23 marked 144 years since Bolivia lost its access to the […]
The measure taken by the government against Edesur, one of the big distributors in Buenos Aires, puts on the table the debate about the role of private companies in the provision of essential services. From the low level of investments to the criticism of the State for inefficient control: the word of the specialists. The […]
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been forced to postpone until March 26, the start of his visit to China due to mild pneumonia, according to a message on the President's official Twitter account. "The President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is in [the Brazilian municipality of] Alvorada after being […]
The quasi-fiscal deficit is growing at ever-accelerating rates, and it only takes five months to generate a new monetary base by issuance. The Central Bank pays 0.8% of GDP monthly to maintain interest on interest-bearing debt. The monetary imbalances of the Argentine economy have been the deepest since the first half of 1989. The interest-bearing […]
The "socialism of the XXI century" decided to nationalize and appropriate the funds for the future of millions of people to obtain new resources to finance the bulging fiscal deficit. At the same time, the run against the peso and the shortage of foreign currency intensified. The relative macroeconomic stability that Bolivia maintained in the […]
In the last few hours, while all the media are attentively awaiting the decision of the Manhattan Criminal Court, led by ultra-Democrat Alvin Bragg, a letter from 2018 emerged that would exculpate Donald Trump completely from the case being pushed by the Biden administration to imprison his political rival. Bragg, a Democratic prosecutor who has […]
Brazil's annual inflation slowed for the tenth consecutive month in mid-March, although underlying readings remained elevated as the central bank resists mounting political pressure to lower interest rates. Consumer prices rose 5.36% from a year earlier, down from last month's reading of 5.63% but slightly above the median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg of […]
Colombian President Gustavo Petro suggested this Thursday that the Government cease seeking approval of the political reform after the Historic Pact asked him a day earlier that it be shelved given "the lack of political will" of some benches to "change the rules of the game." "I think that in the political reform, there is […]
About fifteen leaders of the 22 countries participating in the Ibero-American Summit will attend the meeting this Friday and Saturday in the Dominican Republic. They will try to deepen further the cooperation achieved in the last three decades. According to Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez, fourteen presidents have confirmed their presence in Santo Domingo. In […]
A survey by AG Immigration - a Washington-based immigration law firm - shows that Brazilians ranked third among those who got the most US visas in 2022. There were 815,842 issuances of 80 different types of permits, up 618.8% from the previous year (113,505). Compared to 2018 (640,998), at levels before the covid-19 pandemic, the […]
The Ministry of Defense has allocated a budget of US$27.52 million for the acquisition of a lot of 10,000 7.62x51 mm caliber assault rifles for the benefit of the III Division of the Peruvian Army. The Minutes of the Administration Committee of the Fund for the Armed Forces and National Police, dated January 25, 2023, […]
By the Editorial team of Gazeta do Povo (Opinion) The revelation of a plan by the criminal faction First Capital Command (PCC) to kidnap and kill authorities, including the former judge and senator Sergio Moro and São Paulo prosecutor Lincoln Gakyia, needs to be treated with the utmost importance. The plan, which would be retaliation […]
Central banks have spent decades flooding the global economy with newly created money. We are told this policy, monetary inflation, is needed to stimulate economic growth and keep unemployment low. Still, this one is a lie, as many of the justifications politicians and bureaucrats offer for their actions. As we will explore in this video, […]
The strike in the São Paulo subway system entered its second day on Friday, March 24. Lines 1-Blue, 2-Green, 3-Red, and 15-Silver (monorail) are still paralyzed. The 4-Yellow and 5-Lilac lines are operating normally, as are all the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM) services. Because of the strike, transfers from CPTM to the Metro […]
On Thursday night, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, held a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, with whom he discussed the agenda of joint cooperation with a view to the development of a new stage in the political relations of both nations. "I had a pleasant meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
Mexico’s economy would grow up to 1.4 percent in 2023, even though a slower pace is expected in the manufacturing sector, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) estimated Thursday. The institution upgraded its forecast for this year from 0.6 percent as it anticipates further momentum in domestic demand amid a continued increase in household spending. “Wage […]
The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, proposed this Thursday to Argentina, Chile, and Peru to work together on a sovereign policy for lithium, which favors the four countries, which is not in the eyes of any southern command or that is a reason for destabilization. "We have to jointly design a policy that ensures the […]