Brazil elections 2022: Bolsonaro shares article speaking ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) shared in his message groups on May 22 an article by journalist José Roberto Guzzo, known as J.R. Guzz...

Chamber of Deputies President says Brazil needs to end “e...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With Brazil's Chamber of Deputies about to analyze a bill that changes the classification of fuels for essential goods and services ...

GringoView: The run-away influence of influencers
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) I was recently dumbstruck by a ‘New York Times’ piece about a social-media-famous water bottle and its potpourri of ‘influ...

Is monkeypox nothing more than “fear porn” unleashed on t...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA technology and founder of the Malone Institute, writes in his substack blog that he keeps ...

Brazil trains 700 marines for river operations in southea...
By Roberto Caiafa RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The largest exercise of its kind ever held in the state of Minas Gerais, its main objective was to maintain the re...

Exhibition in Rio shows how Brazil celebrated 100 years o...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - To mark the bicentennial of Brazil's independence, an exhibition in Rio de Janeiro recalls the grand celebrations of 100 years ago. ...

Don’t sell me, Mama – Afghanistan’s forgotten humanitaria...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “I’m little. Please, don’t sell me,” young Noqra Gul pleads with her parents. This may sound shocking, but selling girls is be...

Brazil: Bolsonaro and Musk bring positions on Amazon and ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Jair Bolsonaro and Elon Musk met on Friday in São Paulo in a meeting in which the Brazilian president sought an ally to reject criti...

Brazil elections 2022: Government approval rises from 26%...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The approval of President Jair Bolsonaro's (PL) government is at the best level in a little over a year. According to the EXAME/IDEI...

Bolsonaro says Biden, Macron, Johnson and Trudeau are cor...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro said that the leaders of the United States (Joe Biden), France (Emmanuel Macron), Canada (Justin Trudeau), ...

Commodity prices at a glance – May 20
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With the new geopolitical situation in the world, the unprecedented sanctions frenzy, and the possibility of more global events, The...

Ecuador’s provinces with the wealthiest people
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Between January and April 2022, Ecuador's Internal Revenue Service (SRI) collected US$414.5 million for the temporary wealth tax, bo...

Top best places to go in Europe
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – What comes to your mind when you think of visiting Europe? Do you get carried away by Paris’s food or London streets? We...

Census reveals that Argentina exceeds 47 million inhabitants
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 19, Argentina learned the National Census 2022 results, which showed the existence of 47,327,407 inhabitants in the country, ...

Bolivia’s possible withdrawal from OAS considered “seriou...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Former president Evo Morales' proposal that Bolivia should withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS) and the warning o...

Colombia seeks to prevent Paraguay from becoming a drug t...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 19, Colombia offered its support to Paraguay to prevent it from going down a similar path and becoming a victim of drug traff...

I like the sea: when Chile challenged the United States
By Marcelo Contreras RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Commander Juan López Lermanda opens the envelope on the high seas and reads the brief order from the government...

Uruguay seeks to seduce investors before sustainable bond...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to a senior member of the government's economic team, Uruguay plans to issue a new type of Sustainability Linked Bond (SLB...

Peru: Mining exports exceed US$9 billion between January ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) of Peru indicated that, during the first quarter of 2022, metallic and non-metallic mining ...

Procaps Group to acquire Grupo Somar from Advent Internat...
MIAMI, USA – BARRANQUILLA, COL – May 17, 2022 – Procaps Group (NASDAQ: PROC) (“Procaps”), a leading integrated LatAm healthcare and pharmaceutical conglomera...

Uruguay ranks second in the world as wind and solar energ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Gonzalo Marquez, economist and former Director of Transportation of the Municipality of Montevideo, released a ranking prepared by t...

Six effective tips for buying a home in Chile
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Since the last quarter of last year, the real estate market has shown changes in trends when buying a home in Chile. This is due to ...

Argentine Government increases pensions by 15%
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 19, Argentina's Government announced a 15% increase in the pensions received by more than 7.1 million people, which will be a...

Connection plans for the Colombian rural sector are accel...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia is a country with a mountainous topography, and this increases the challenge of bringing the Internet to all corners of its...

Argentina wants to join the BRICS countries
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Alberto Fernández today expressed Argentina's intention to join the BRICS bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, Chin...

‘Social relations’ in Brazil were created to prevent blac...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Luiz Edson Fachin said Wednesday (18) that "social relations" in Brazil are designed to prevent the black population from coming to ...

Russia became the fifth largest importer to Brazil during...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian imports of Russian products increased much faster than total foreign purchases at the beginning of the year. As a result, ...

Brazil: Court gives green light to Eletrobras privatization
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's Court of Accounts of the Union (TCU) gave the green light on Wednesday to the privatization of Eletrobras, the largest elec...

Brazil elections 2022: União Brasil leads the race for go...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The most recent electoral polls show that União Brasil is currently the party with the most competitive candidates in the contests f...

Brazil: Petrobras studies offshore wind farm with capacit...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 19, the Brazilian oil company Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) announced it is studying, in partnership with Norwegian Equinor, the const...

Solar energy sets a world record, with Brazil leading the...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Solar energy is assuming more and more prominence globally, and Brazil, currently the leader in solar energy in Latin America, shoul...

Brazil increases clean energy production in the first fou...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil increased clean energy production and reduced that of plants considered to be more polluting in the first four months of 2022...

India and Brazil explore new business opportunities in de...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A delegation from India's Ministry of Defense and representatives from public and private companies are visiting Brazil this week to...

France’s Vallourec transfers activities to Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 18, the French steel tube manufacturer Vallourec announced its intention to cut about 2,950 jobs worldwide, 320 of them in Fr...

Commodity prices at a glance – May 18
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With the new geopolitical situation in the world, the unprecedented sanctions frenzy, and the possibility of more global events, The...

Brazilian Economy Minister: “War launched energy transiti...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, said that the Russian military operation in Ukraine advanced the discussion about t...

Colombia has one million fewer smokers, the lowest figure...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Between 2016 and 2021, the percentage of smokers or prevalence dropped from 8.3% to 5.6%, so now Colombia has one million fewer smok...

Brazil ranked as the most important emerging market in ga...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As the largest games market in Latin America, with estimated revenues of R$11 (US$2.2) billion in 2021 and expected growth of 6% in ...

Bolivia: Alert on “institutional coup” attempt by opposition
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 18, Bolivian Congressman Juan José Jáuregui denounced that opposition forces are seeking to make the election of the Ombudsma...

New endangered snake species discovered in Paraguay
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new and colorful non-venomous snake species, previously unknown to science, was discovered in Paraguay and presented in a study pu...

Plastic industrialists affirm that Ecuador is not the “ga...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In Ecuador, World Recycling Day was commemorated yesterday with complex figures. According to the Ministry of the Environment, Water...

Uruguayan Foreign Minister: “immobility” has won in Merco...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francisco Bustillo, has delayed its expectations on the time it will take to advance in t...

Uruguay raises interest rate to 9.25%, anticipates at lea...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 17, the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) decided to increase the reference rate by 75 basis points to 9.25%. The decision of a s...

Peru increases its shipments of agricultural products to ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to FreshFruit estimates, during the first quarter of 2022, imports of agricultural products from Peru made by Germany tota...

Chile’s GDP grew by 7.2% during the first quarter of 2022
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Chilean economy expanded by 7.2% in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period last year, driven mainly by trade and ...

The sworn virgins from Albania
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – There is a medieval Albanian tradition that allows women to live as men. If there were no more male heirs in a family, women c...

Brazil: Regional governments had highest primary surplus ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian states and municipalities had the highest primary surplus for March of the historical series of the Brazilian Central Bank...

Brazil: São Paulo City drops vaccine passports and masks ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The São Paulo City Hall has ended the mandatory requirement for proof of vaccination against the covid-19 in events and establishmen...

Brazil: Bolsonaro says he will “enter Petrobras” because ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On May 16, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would "enter Petrobras" because the oil company, in his opinion, has excessive...

Brazil’s gross debt drops to 78.5% of GDP in March
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's gross debt fell 0.8 percentage points (p.p.) in March and reached 78.5% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The Brazilian ...