The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that people in Honduras face “war-like levels of violence.” During a visit to the Central American country, the organization’s head, Jan Egeland, spoke with people whose suffering was at the level of an armed conflict. According to him, entire communities are being forcibly displaced by gangs. He urged […]
In Latin America, there are few economies with a workweek of less than 48 hours, unlike Europe and North Asia, where the workweek has been reduced to 40 hours in many countries. However, several countries in the region have already begun to implement reforms to reduce working hours. Chile recently joined Ecuador and other Caribbean […]
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ended his trip to Spain on Wednesday (Apr. 26) with a meeting with Spanish President Pedro Sánchez at the Moncloa Palace. Shortly before his departure, the head of state of the largest economy in Latin America stressed that the concern of some countries about China's economic growth contradicts […]
By Mariano Espina “The last trucks with the pipes with seams for the GPNK have left the Tenaris Siat plant,” says a statement released on Tuesday with the signature of Paolo Rocca, CEO of the Techint Group. The company was responsible for the pipes of the four lines of the first stage of the Néstor […]
By Fatima Romero This week, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei traveled to Taipei to meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, seeking to strengthen diplomatic relations with the island. The four-day visit has drawn the ire of China, which considers democratic Taiwan – home to 23.5 million people – part of its territory that will one day […]
By Fátima Romero Consulting firm ManpowerGroup shows in its most recent employment outlook survey for the second quarter of 2023 that 83% of employers are having difficulty hiring talent in Puerto Rico. The survey, which included a sample size of 1,000 employers, revealed that 43% of companies plan for their workforce to grow between April […]
By Guilherme Grandi Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) again defended the creation of common currencies for negotiations between countries that form economic blocs and signed three bilateral agreements with Spain in a ceremony held on Wednesday morning (26) in Madrid. In an impromptu speech after a meeting with President Pedro Sánchez, Lula […]
By Luiz Philippe Orleans e Bragança* (Opinion) Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung), Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Fidel Castro, Cháves, and others promoted what is called today anarcho-tyranny, the period of transition after the seizure of power and which is part of the process of total consolidation. Mao's Red Book makes it clear that seizing power is only the […]
Peru and Chile are going through a tense moment after a report by the Peruvian television program Cuarto Poder revealed that on Chile’s southern border, Chilean police and military gave directions to hundreds of migrants so that they could illegally enter Peru. “Concerning the report of a TV media about the illegal entry of migrants […]
Ricardo Roa, a mechanical engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and specialist in engineering management systems from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, was appointed by Ecopetrol’s board of directors as the new president of the state-owned oil company on April 12. Upon taking office on April 24, in a press conference with the Colombian media, […]
By Marina Ferraz and Fernanda Bassi President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said on Wednesday (April 26) that Brazil wants "the Brics Bank to become a major investment bank. If possible, bigger than the World Bank". The Brazilian Chief Executive also defended again the creation of a negotiation currency among South American countries and […]
By Bernard Marr Like many people, you may have been surprised by the ability of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) like the new Bing or Google's Bard to create text, images, and videos quickly and scalably. For those who somehow haven't encountered them-which is unlikely since ChatGPT is supposedly the fastest-growing app of […]
Fragments of rock with green incrustations have raised the alarm of geologists working on Trindade Island in Brazil. The hybrids between natural rock and plastic, sometimes with fragments of fishing nets, have become a common finding in the protected area. On the island, the human population is minimal. The only inhabitants are the Brazilian Navy […]
By Paulliny Tort* In 38 years, Brazil burned 185.7 million hectares, an area equivalent to the territories of Colombia and Chile together, or 21.8% of the national territory. This is what MapBiomas Fogo data reveals, mapping that counted the extension consumed by flames between 1985 and 2022 based on satellite images. "With this historical series […]
On Tuesday, 25, Jorge Viana, the president of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil), spoke about the current moment of Brazilian agriculture and cattle-raising at the Spain-Brazil Business Meeting held in Madrid. According to Viana, Brazil can be the world's second-largest exporter of grains, surpassing even the European Union (EU), due to the […]
By Victor Moraes The National Confederation of Industry (CNI) annual report indicates that half of the Brazilian exports to China, the European Union, and Argentina are exposed to trade barriers. Of the US$155 billion exported to these destinations, more than US$78 billion are exposed to barriers. Joelson Sampaio, Ph.D. in economic theory from the University […]
Nearly 200 indigenous peoples from all over Brazil walked from the Esplanade of the Ministries to the National Congress on Monday, 24. The group is in Brasilia to participate in the Acampamento Terra Livre [Free Land Camp] (ATL) movement, organized by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib). Parliamentarians from Psol and Rede received […]
More than 1 million birds have been sacrificed in Chile because of an avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak. The number includes animals that have been victimized by the disease and those that have been preventively slaughtered. The first cases were registered in wild birds last year. In a short time, the virus spread to industrial farms […]
By Artur Piva On the informal exchange market, Argentina’s currency plummeted to the worst exchange rate in its history on Tuesday, 25. With the drop, it takes almost 500 Argentine pesos to buy US$1. When Alberto Fernández, the country’s current president, took office, the rate was around $70 to the dollar. The sharp devaluation of […]
By Anderson Scardoelli The president of the Central Bank (BC), Roberto Campos Neto, said the president of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has the right to speak about the current level of the basic interest rate in the country, the Selic. However, he emphasized that the agency cannot be held responsible for Brazil's […]
This month, an agreement reached between Brazil and Paraguay will generate an additional cost in the electricity bill of R$1.9 billion (US$380 million) to Brazilian consumers. The amount is related to the new tariff of Itaipu, of approximately R$85 (US$16.82), which increased the operating expenses from just over R$5 billion in 2022 to R$7.6 billion […]
Parliamentarians of the opposition filed, on Monday, 24, a request to arrest the Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Flávio Dino, at the Prosecutor General's Office (PGR). The criminal notice mentions the testimony given by General Gonçalves Dias, former minister of the Cabinet of Institutional Security (GSI). In the hearing, Dias told the Federal Police […]
By Anderson Scardoelli and Rute Moraes The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and Justice of the Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, went to the National Congress on Tuesday afternoon, 25. At the headquarters of the federal legislature, he delivered a document with proposed changes to Bill (PL) 2630/2020, the Censorship Bill. Moraes […]
By Gianlucca Gattai The collection of federal taxes and contributions in Brazil reached R$581,795 billion (US$115.1 billion) in the 1st quarter of 2023. The IRS released the data on the collection on Tuesday morning (25). According to the IRS, the amount corresponds to the best collection performance for the period since 1994, which marks the […]
Tourists venturing into space on these first commercial missions - such as those promoted by Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin - should be banned from having sex outside planet Earth. The conclusion is from Professor David Cullen, an astrobiology expert at Cranfield University in the UK. According to him, there are "unanswered […]