United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Leonardo Simão, Mozambique's former minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, as his special representative for West Africa and the Sahel, the UN announced. According to a UN note, the Mozambican diplomat, who will also assume the leadership of the Cameroon-Nigeria Joint Commission as part of his new duties, […]
Bolivia managed to export 77% of urea fertilizer production to Brazil in the first quarter of 2023, informed the president of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Armin Dorgathen. “20% was destined to supply the domestic market.” “The surplus production of the agro fertilizer was destined for Brazil, the main buyer with a volume of over […]
The pandemic provided the missing impetus for a trend that has become a lifestyle: digital nomadism. The model, which involves living and working without a permanent residence while traveling the world, is not new. Still, it has attracted more travelers to Brazil since the country began offering the possibility of a visa for digital nomads. […]
By Diógenes Freire (Opinion) A little over a year after celebrating the decision of the Constitutional Court of Colombia that authorized abortion up to 6 months of gestation, Colombian parliamentarians from the extreme left want the approval of a law that, in practice, punishes Christians. The bill (PL), authored by Senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez, […]
The financial market forecasts inflation of 6.05% for 2023, an index above last week's projection of 6.04%. It is the fifth consecutive week of high projections, according to the Focus Bulletin, released on Tuesday, 2, by the Central Bank. For 2024 and 2025, the projection is for the stability of the Broad Consumer Price Index […]
By Alexandre Garcia* (Opinion) The Paraguayan people have just elected a new president. Santiago Peña, 44, succeeds his Colorado Party coreligionist Mario "Marito" Abdo, Bolsonaro's paratrooper friend. Peña scored 43% of the vote, beating the center-left coalition with 27%. It was the biggest victory for the center-right because it elected 15 of the 17 governors […]
By Silvio Ribas President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) wants to accelerate the transfer of technologies created by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) to maximize production in Africa. The idea is to boost projects in this direction that Brazil has carried out for two decades since the PT's first mandate, which began in […]
The extension of vacation days, the regulation of outsourcing, and the new model of labor jurisdiction are only part of the various regulatory changes the Mexican labor market has experienced in recent years. Four years ago, on May 1, 2019, the federal government announced with great fanfare a historic milestone by enacting the major reform […]
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised Monday that all those responsible for the events of Jan. 8 would go to prison during a Workers' Day event on May 1 in São Paulo. "All the people who tried to carry out the coup will be imprisoned because this country is a true democracy," Lula […]
By Judith Flores After five years of the April 2018 protests, which Daniel Ortega’s regime dismantled with blood and fire, the crisis in Nicaragua persists. For now, no exit in sight would lead to the end of the Sandinista regime, with part of the opposition in exile – among them those released in February along […]
By Sabrina Martín The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, begins his first official visit to Spain this Wednesday, where he will position his ideological agenda. Petro recently traveled to the United States, meeting with Joe Biden and some congress members. Now he travels to the European continent to boost his image as a regional leader […]
By Cecilia Rodrigues* Several European cities are so concerned about population decline that they offer subsidies for foreigners to move. There is an aid for buying property, cheap rents, and even cash payments for new residents to move in – and have children. All to encourage relocation. The initiative is not new, and cities that […]
By Luiz Gustavo Pacete Brazil is among the four countries with the highest willingness to trust AI systems. The finding is from "Trust in Artificial Intelligence", a global mapping developed by KPMG consultancy that measures the degree of receptivity of people concerning the technology that has been gaining projection because of OpenAI's ChatGPT. A total […]
By José Ignacio Araya The conservative Colorado Party’s candidate consecrated the ruling party’s hegemony at Paraguay’s helm after winning over 15 points in Sunday’s elections. However, the conflicts he will have to overcome seem to have been outlined before he took office, where economic problems, corruption, and drug trafficking are just some of them. EIGHT […]
By João Pedro Magalhães According to the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) released last Friday (28) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), there was an increase in unemployment in the first quarter of the year, reaching 8.8%. The increase was the first after a long sequence of drops, but according to information […]
If a trip to the lake with your fishing rod is not an option, an Israeli company has created a method of 3D bioprinting its own 'fresh' fish - which it says will be ready to cook immediately. Stakeholder Foods has developed a 3D-printed grouper fish filet from stem cells, processed through bioprinting technology into […]
The governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, announced on Sunday (30) that the minimum wage in the state would be raised to R$1,550. This increase will be valid for all workers and represents a readjustment of about 20% concerning the current value, which varies from R$1,284 (lowest range) to R$1,306 (highest). The Civil House […]
By Peter Watson The US Space Command, the Peruvian Air Force, and Conida (Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial, the Peruvian space agency) have signed a cooperation agreement on space situational awareness, which will simplify the maneuvering processes of the PeruSAT-1 Earth observation satellite by providing information on space debris in orbit. PeruSAT-1 operators […]
By Matthew Malinowski Central bank chiefs, led by Roberto Campos Neto, are expected to keep borrowing costs at 13.75% for the sixth consecutive meeting on Wednesday, as consumer price forecasts remain above target. Although headline inflation has moderated in recent months, core inflation, which excludes volatile items, remains on the upside. The monetary authority's stance […]
The release of credit to finance exports from Brazil to Argentina should be the main agenda of Tuesday's (2) meeting between the two presidents. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and his economic team will receive Alberto Fernández at the Planalto Palace. The two heads of state arranged the meeting directly in a telephone conversation […]
By Leonardo Desideri (Analysis) Brazil's controversial Censorship Bill (Fake News Bill) will be voted on Tuesday (2) at the House of Representatives. The proposal, focused on the issue of the responsibility of social networks for content published by third parties, entered into an emergency system last week with the vote of 238 parliamentarians. The text […]
Ricardo Cappelli, the acting minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) of the Presidency of the Republic, attacked the big techs on social networks to defend the Censorship Bill (Fake News Bill) on Monday, 1. The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, did the same. "It is curious, to say the least, to see foreign companies […]
The Agrishow 2023 agricultural fair, the largest in Latin America, was inaugurated yesterday, Monday, in the Brazilian city of Ribeirão Preto, in the state of Sao Paulo (southeast), with the expectation of generating 11.2 million reais (about 2.24 million dollars) in business, confirmed the organizers. Under the slogan "Connecting people and technologies", the technology fair […]
Peru’s Consumer Price Index registered an increase of 0.55 percent in April, bringing the country’s inflation to 2.66 percent in the first four months of 2023, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) reported today. The institution specified in its technical report “Variation of the economy’s price indicators” that in the case of Metropolitan […]
The former opposition candidate to the Presidency of Paraguay for the Concertación Nacional, Efraín Alegre, made a statement in the last hours of this Monday, given the denunciations made about possible electoral fraud in the general elections held the day before in his country. The politician, president of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), demanded […]