The Uruguayan government announced that a dam would be built next week to maintain drinking water supplies in the capital and surrounding areas, where predictions of an imminent depletion of reserves due to drought have alerted the population. Presidency Secretary Álvaro Delgado told a press conference Tuesday (16) that the country is experiencing “the worst […]
The Ministry of Health confirmed Brazil's first suspected human case of avian influenza on Wednesday evening (17) local time. It is a 61-year-old man, an employee of a municipal park in Vitória, where one of the three birds tested positive for the disease in Espírito Santo was found. According to health surveillance protocol, the patient […]
At least 5,000 soldiers and 500 police have surrounded a town in northwestern El Salvador. They want to arrest those responsible for the suspected murder of a police officer by a gang. Security authorities in the Central American country said the policeman was killed Tuesday (16) in an attack by suspected gang members on patrol […]
Brazil's Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) has denied oil company Petrobras permission to drill for oil off the coast of Amapá. Petrobras was only waiting for this authorization to begin test drilling in the Foz do Amazonas basin, about 175 kilometers off the coast of Amapá. Ibama's technical division had already issued […]
Mexicans applying for a passport will no longer have to tick whether they are male or female. This is the result of a new travel document regulation announced Wednesday (17) and hailed by top diplomats in the country as a historic step forward for people who identify as non-binary. The new non-binary passport was unveiled […]
State-owned Yacimientos de Litio Boliviano (YLB), together with Chinese companies CATL, BRUNP, and CMOC (CBC), will build two direct lithium extraction (DLE) production plants in Bolivia’s Uyuni and Coipasa salt flats. They are scheduled for completion by 2025, and each could produce about 25,000 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate for batteries per year, according to […]
The Vatican sent two delegates to Paraguay to investigate the case of the alleged sexual harassment of the student Belén Whittingslow by the professor of the Catholic University of Asunción (UCA), Cristian Kriskovich, informed the House of Studies. "The Dicastery for Education and Culture has sent two delegates, the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal […]
By Artur Piva Unemployment rose again in Brazil during the first quarter of 2023 - the period marks the beginning of the Lula administration. The rate rose by almost 1%. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released the data on Thursday, 18. They are part of the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD). The […]
The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, denied that the changes made in the new fiscal framework report will increase expenses by R$82 billion in 2024. "There's no way this could happen," he said. According to him, in the "worst case scenario", the growth will be 50% of the increase in revenue, but he did not […]
By Matthew Malinowski Due to strong consumer spending, Chile’s economic growth rebounded at the start of the year, which fueled the recovery from the recession. Gross domestic product grew 0.8% in the first quarter from the previous three months, while it contracted 0.6% from the same period a year earlier. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected […]
By Jim Wyss and Michelle Kaske A little more than a year after emerging from bankruptcy, Puerto Rico’s top officials seek to convince global investors that the island, long battered by natural disasters and fiscal mismanagement, is open for business. Hundreds of bankers, investors, and developers are expected to attend a conference this week called […]
By Daniel Salazar Castellanos Colombia laid the groundwork to drive the emergence of its immediate transfer system inspired by the Brazilian Pix platform. It already has a roadmap with the National Development Plan, which instructs the country to move in that direction through the central bank. Amid a growing environment of techno-financial solutions, Colombia wants […]
By Alex Tanzi More and more Americans are struggling to meet their usual payments. According to a Census Bureau survey, more than immediately after the Covid-19 pandemic, when millions lost their jobs. Specifically, 38.5% of adults in the US, some 89.1 million people, were in this situation between April 26 and May 8, according to […]
By Tatiana Freitas and Daniel Cancel For 65 years, a Batista was at the helm of JBS. After a five-year break, a member of the founding family is once again one step away from taking the reins of what is now the world's largest meat producer - and he'll have a lot of work ahead […]
Cuban authorities are ready to provide more favorable conditions for Russian investors, Russian presidential commissioner for the protection of entrepreneurs’ rights Boris Titov said. “Cuba is transforming, mastering new rules for interaction between the state and business. Cuban authorities are ready to provide special conditions for Russian entrepreneurs,” Titov said at the opening of the […]
By João Pedro Malar Bitcoin operates at a high on Thursday, 18, with a recovery movement from the fall the day before. Still, the asset continues with a strong sideways movement, reflecting both low liquidity in the market and uncertainties among investors about the global macroeconomic scenario, involving interest rate hikes and discussions about the […]
By Mamela Fiallo (Opinion) Ecuador woke up on May 17 with the news of the "cross death". This constitutional tool allows the president to dissolve the legislative branch without pay. The non-payment to legislators during the next weeks saves the Treasury (and therefore the citizen who pays it with taxes) US$33 million, which has been […]
Three-time presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, has defended Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, from criticism from other regional leaders, such as Colombia’s Gustavo Petro or Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. “If I have to decide between supporting López Obrador and Petro or Dina Boluarte, I decisively support the one who has reached the Presidency legally and constitutionally.” […]
Argentina is studying the possibility of installing the Russian satellite navigation system Glonass in its territory, the Argentine ambassador to Moscow, Eduardo Antonio Zuain, told Sputnik. “As far as I know, this possibility is still under study. Argentina produces satellites, and I think it is in a stage of technical analysis whether they are compatible […]
By Mauricio Ríos García (Opinion) Luis Arce's regime, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), and Bolivia's economy are sinking each day. The facts that allow us to affirm this are so many that, in reality, it is very difficult not to recognize it as a real crisis in the making, no matter how much the regime […]
By Carmen Luisa Ugueto According to the Foreign Trade report of the Paraguayan Chamber of Exporters and Traders of Grains and Oilseeds (Capeco), in the corn export period from July 2022 to April 2023, Paraguay tripled shipments of the product. This confirms a record production of 6.4 million tonnes and yields never seen before as […]
By Carmen Luisa Ugueto Liendo According to the portal La Nación, Paraguay and Brazil are strategic trade allies with highly integrated foreign trade. The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted through its website the official visit made by the president-elect, Santiago Peña, to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, pointing out that thanks to the bilateral […]
Two diesel cargoes sailing from Russia to South America changed their destination, arriving in Brazil and not Chile, which will not receive Russian fuel unloadings. The information was provided by Reuters news agency which, in previous days, based on information from different market sources and Refinitiv Eikon's ship monitoring data, pointed out that the vessels […]
By Lucas Ribeiro (Opinion) The most powerful Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, continues to advance in his authoritarian rage. In the last few years, he has already arrested a member of Congress for the crime of opinion (to whom the Constitution guarantees the right of free expression). He has […]
Sales of Brazilian commerce, one of the mainstays of the country's economy, rose 0.8 percent last March compared to the previous month, leaving "stability" to take growth, the state-run Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said today. The entity reported that retail trade grew 1.5 percent in the quarterly moving average and 3.2 percent […]