Former minister and current senator for the Federal District Damares Alves (Republicans) says she can be the right-wing alternative in the 2026 presidential election if former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) becomes ineligible in the processes to which he responds in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The statement was made in an interview with the newspaper […]
Low-cost airline Sky Airlines has started selling cheap flight tickets between São Paulo and Lima, Peru. The flights will start in July and are already available. Depending on availability on the official website, flights will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays in both directions and will last approximately 5 hours. Sky Airlines (which already […]
Brazilians were surprised when the government announced that the country's largest "favela" (slum) is located in the capital Brasilia, just 35 kilometers from the axis of power, and not in Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, as it always was. Favelas, a portrait of the inequality and misery of many Brazilian cities, are almost always […]
An increasing number of emerging and developing countries borrowed from China to build infrastructure under the New Silk Road cannot service them on schedule. As a result, Beijing has dramatically expanded its bailout lending in recent years. An analysis by researchers at AidData, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW […]
By Juan Pablo Álvarez With discretion and, as they say in the Rio de la Plata, without raising the partridge, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma was in Uruguay last week. According to the Uruguayan press, the visit of the founder of Alibaba to Uruguay lasted about 72 hours. It included a visit to the Solís Meat […]
By Blake Schmidt Agustín Coppel Gómez was born into one of Mexico's biggest retail fortunes, but he is not alone. He and his three brothers are part of the third generation of 31 descendants of the family's late patriarch, Enrique Coppel Tamayo. He founded the business in 1941 and later introduced a credit card to […]
The train track linking the Peruvian city of Cusco (south) with the district of Machu Picchu, the site of the Inca citadel of the same name, remains blocked due to torrential rains. “The railway blockage has been recorded at two points on the route to Machu Picchu.” “The landslides, which have caused the blockage of […]
By Camilo Amaya The IAN-R1 is in Bogota, in a neuralgic part of the city. Few people know about this reactor, which is used for research purposes. However, considering this type of energy in the energy transition proposed by President Gustavo Petro is not far-fetched. Perhaps few Bogota citizens know that there is a nuclear […]
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stressed this March 27 that the relationship between China and his country is at the highest level of trust and mutual collaboration in their entire history during the farewell and decoration ceremony of the ambassador of China in Caracas, Li Baorong. "Today, the relations between great China and the homeland of […]
The Cotopaxi volcano in the Ecuadorian province of the same name in the north of the country emits a column of gas and ash this Tuesday. “Observation: Gas emission and low ash load. Cloud height = 2,000 msnc,” reported the Institutional Geophysical (IG). With 5,897 meters above sea level, this crater is one of the […]
European Union energy ministers on Monday gave the definitive green light to a ban on the sale of vehicles with combustion engines, including diesel, gasoline, and hybrids, by 2035. This happened because Germany agreed to lift its veto after forcing an agreement with the European Commission to clarify how synthetic fuels will fit in after […]
By Raúl Tortolero* Mexican Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) Javier Laynez Potisek covers himself with glory (even if for an instant) by granting a suspension against the complete electoral reform promoted by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his party Morena. They intended to change many game rules, interpreted […]
The city of Lima will host this Wednesday the II Regional Meeting of the Madrid Forum, an alliance promoted by Fundación Disenso in defense of freedom, whose main objective is to support Peruvians and their institutions to resist the offensive of the left, managed by the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group. The event, […]
By Rebeca Crespo* Pornhub is the number one pornography website in the world. It receives 130 million visits daily, and its ads move billions a year. A documentary has delved into its history, which a New York journalist began to uncover in 2020, and that has less light than shadows. Pornhub’s history gathers the testimony […]
Brazil offers special visas for immigrants with no employment relationship in the country, whose work can be done remotely. In addition to its landscapes with a good Internet connection, the authorities are negotiating agreements with international organizations specialized in setting up service networks for digital nomads to settle in the country. It is estimated that […]
The Armed Forces of Brazil, France, Guiana, and Suriname participated in the combined exercise Fer de Lance 2023, which took place, between March 7 and 21, on the coast and in the jungle of French Guiana to promote the interoperability of regional forces, among other aspects. The military maneuvers, which brought together more than 1,000 […]
The Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) estimates that agriculture and cattle-raising will grow by about 11% in 2023. Rural production is a key sector of the country's economy. In Ipea's estimate for agricultural production results, the highlight was the increase in the estimated value for crop production (14%). Among the factors for the […]
By Artur Piva In February, the Port of Santos handled about 15% less cargo than in the same month last year. The amount fell from almost 13 million tonnes to a little less than 12 million. The port is among the main ports of departure for Brazilian exports. Even so, the balance of the year's […]
Human ingenuity always surprises. People come up with the most remarkable ideas to overcome everyday life’s difficulties. And it is not unusual to find that the most impactful transformations come from the most straightforward ideas. The example comes from the suburb of Peru’s capital Lima. There the inhabitants have developed the art of ‘harvesting’ fog […]
Produced by the National School of Public Administration (Enap), the Brazil Entrepreneurial Cities Index puts São Paulo first in its 2023 ranking. Also at the top of the list are the capital, Florianópolis, and Joinville, two cities in Santa Catarina. To rank the 101 most entrepreneurial cities in Brazil, Enap evaluates seven criteria. Infrastructure, access […]
By Silvio Ribas After being forced to postpone his trip to China with a large entourage of politicians and business people, initially planned for last Saturday, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) is completing three months in office marked by crises and frustrations. In his almost 90 days in office, he has accumulated several […]
Despite recording a high close to 1%, the Ibovespa closed at less than 100,000 points for the third straight trading session. The indicator is the main one for the Brazilian Stock Exchange. The dollar closed the day at R$ 5.20 (a drop of almost 1%). The return of Ibovespa to the level below 100 thousand […]
We live in post Coronavirus world. These occurrences from the past three years were unpleasant, but they teach us one thing – many jobs can be done remotely. When people work from home, they often have a chance to choose when they would work. Even if they have fixed working hours, they don’t have to […]
By Raquel Hoshino On Saturday, March 25, Honduras cut its ties with Taiwan, ceasing to recognize the island, and confirmed its established diplomatic relations with China. The announcement had been expected since March 14, when President Xiomara Castro communicated via Twitter that her government would seek relations with China. The Caribbean republic was one of […]
Almost a third of Chileans will be over 80 years old in 2050, which indicates that 9 percent of the population will belong to the segment of the elderly, a report by the UC-Confuturo Observatory on Aging released yesterday. The study indicated that three out of every ten people would be over 80 in the […]