According to data from the INE report on Labor Market Statistics in 2022, consulted today by Lusa, Cape Verde ended the year with an active population - set of the employed population and the unemployed population aged 15 or more - of 352,494 individuals, representing 71.8% of the total. The employed or occupied population in […]
UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) said today that, 21 years after the conquest of peace, Angolans continue to live a "serious" political, judicial, economic-financial, and social crisis characterized by the "regression" of the democratic rule of law indicators. For UNITA (the largest opposition party), the current context of the country is […]
"We already have many Portuguese companies operating in Angola, in several areas, especially in civil construction, but there is always room to do more, and we believe that this visit gives an important impulse for what we want to do from now on," said Angolan Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa. This was stated during […]
By Patrick Gillespie Argentina’s monthly inflation would have accelerated in March at the highest pace in at least the last seven months, implying a new setback for Economy Minister Sergio Massa before the October elections. Consumer prices are estimated to have risen by 7% in March versus the previous month, the fastest pace since Massa […]
By Juan Pablo Álvarez According to World Bank estimates, Chile and Haiti will be the only countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to see their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall in 2023, while Argentina will end the year neutral. However, when looking at alternative measurements, more and more economists are projecting a contraction for […]
By Tomaz Silva Petrobras will increase national natural gas production in the Northeast region by beginning the hiring process for chartering two platform vessels. They will be destined for the Sergipe Águas Profundas project, in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, about 100 km off the coast. The president of Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates, said that the Sergipe […]
By Gianlucca Gattai On Friday (31), the electoral corregidor-general, Benedito Gonçalves, concluded the phase of evidence collection in the process leading to the ineligibility of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice ordered that the parties be summoned to present their final arguments in the case file. The action, filed by […]
By Gianlucca Gattai Brazilian Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, said he needs to increase government revenue by R$110 billion (US$21.7) and R$150 billion (US$29.6 billion) to make the goals in the proposed fiscal framework feasible. The statement was made this Monday (03) in an interview with the news channel GloboNews. According to him, to this […]
A part of a popular Mexican beach resort caught fire on the afternoon of April 3 on the beaches of Acapulco, Guerrero, just as the holiday period for Easter celebrations gets underway. It is the El Rollo water park on the Miguel Alemán coast, one of the most popular and crowded areas of Acapulco's beaches. […]
Colombia’s Vice President Francia Marquez is preparing for a high-level tour to Africa with dozens of business people and government officials. The leader will visit Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia as part of the Petro administration calls the ‘Africa Strategy’. Francia Márquez will visit several African countries in the coming weeks. According to El […]
By Mariano Espina Argentina has been the leading exporter of soybean meal for more than twenty years. The world supply of this product has historically depended on three players, of which Argentina has been the protagonist. This year would change the story to benefit a neighbor: Brazil. “The relative stagnation that soybean production has had […]
An eventual impeachment trial of Ecuador’s president, Guillermo Lasso, has entered its final phase in the National Assembly. The Legislative has officially known the request through its Oversight Committee. It will now have ten days to receive evidence against the president, another ten to evaluate them, and another similar period to issue a report on […]
The president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Nicolás Pino, criticized the launch of the unified “agro-dollar” initiative for simplifying the price of agricultural commodity exports. He believes the measure will generate exchange rate distortions and negatively impact government revenues. In an interview with Radio Rivadavia, the SRA leader said that the “agro-dollar” is not […]
At least 250 militants of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) invaded three areas belonging to a mill, in the city of Timbaúba, in Pernambuco, in the early hours of Monday 3. The area is about 800 hectares. The invasion started the so-called Red April, organized annually by the movement to invade properties to press for […]
By Beatriz Cardoso de Oliveira The Liquid Tree is an innovative project for urban areas known as Liquid 3. It is a sustainable initiative, representing an alternative urban gardening concept. This project offers, among other things, a solution for air purification. To do this, it uses the power of microalgae and 600 liters of water, […]
Inflation in Uruguay moderated for the sixth consecutive month and stood at 7.33 percent in the mobile year ending in March, the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported today, Monday. The increase of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the last 12 months slowed down compared to the previous record of February 2023 (7.55 percent) and […]
The Brazilian trade balance recorded a surplus of US$10.956 billion in March, the largest positive balance for any month in the historical series that began in 1989, the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services reported Monday. The figure represents an increase of 38.4 percent over the same month last year, when the surplus amounted […]
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, announced yesterday Monday a battery of 36 measures with an investment of US$283 million to rebuild the areas affected by the fires that consumed more than 450,000 hectares last February in the central-southern size of the country. “Today we are entering the reconstruction phase, not only to recover what […]
The technical secretary of the National Anti-Money Laundering Commission of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) of Panama, Isabel Vecchio, today stressed her country’s intention to get off the list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of jurisdictions or countries with deficiencies in the fight against money laundering and to avoid the financing […]
State-owned Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) partnered on Monday with Argentine oil company YPF to drill the Charagua X-1 well, a project whose potential is above 1 trillion cubic feet (TCF) and which will require an investment of US$50 million in the first stage. “It is an important milestone because we see new companies entering […]
Chinese cloud technology seeks to strengthen academic development in Latin America by promoting education in the digital era. The Chinese technology company Huawei, present in Argentina since 2001, organized the "Cloud LATAM Partner Summit 2023" for two consecutive days. The event hosted a debate on education based on cloud technology as a tool for academic […]
The Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, held a meeting this Monday with the Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, Flavio Maceira, with whom he discussed issues of binational interest within the framework of the progressive reestablishment of bilateral relations. The rapprochements between Venezuela and Brazil occurred after political relations were broken for […]
By Dmitry Rodionov The path to world war lies through Transnistria, said its president, Vadim Krasnoselsky, at a meeting with deputies of the Grigoriopol district. “Through Transnistria, there is a direct path to a world war. If Transnistria intervenes, Moldova will intervene. It’s natural. We’re neighbors.” “When Moldova will intervene, Romania will intervene, and this […]