The growth of co-location and information services will continue to increase in the future due to the rising demand for cloud services and the need for data storage and processing. Data centers have become the perfect solution for storing information, regardless of its weight or the data businesses produce. According to an IDC report, demand […]
According to the decision approved by the Ministers of Economy and Finance, the list of tax havens updated by the European Union includes sixteen territories: the four added Russia, Costa Rica, the British Virgin Islands, and the Marshall Islands; Panama, American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Trinidad and Tobago, Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, the […]
The Foreign Affairs Committee of Peru's Congress approved a Tuesday (14) motion declaring Colombian President Gustavo Petro persona non grata. Petro had criticized the handling of anti-government protests and the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo. According to the decree, the reason for the decision is Petro's "unacceptable public statements" about law enforcement's handling of […]
A journalist has been murdered in the Paraguayan town of Pedro Juan Caballero, in the department of Amambay on the border with Brazil. Alex Álvarez (39), a member of the team of Radio Urundey FM, was attacked by a motorized vehicle while waiting for the traffic light to change. The victim was accompanied by his […]
Since January, hundreds of dead or dying sea lions have washed up on Peru's beaches. Before they died, the animals - majestic predators that can weigh up to 350 kilos - suffered from agonizing convulsions and struggled to swim. Nothing like this had ever been observed in the region. A scientific team of Peruvian and […]
The Parliamentary Front for Agriculture and Livestock (FPA) met on Tuesday, 14, to discuss two issues dear to its members: the suspension of 11 lines of credit from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), announced last week, and the federal government's provisional measure that restructured the Ministry of Agriculture, creating new portfolios […]
Specialists have recently indicated that El Salvador’s net international reserves show low levels. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission reviewed Article IV and indicated that although the country’s overall fiscal deficit was reduced to about 2.5% of GDP, international reserves have fallen to about two months of imports. Also, Sergi Lanau, deputy chief economist at […]
In Mexico, several of the world's leading billionaires and tens of millions of poor people live under the same roof. It is, therefore, not surprising that the country appears among the most unequal in the world. Far from being an isolated case, the Mexican reality does not escape the reality of Latin America, the most […]
By Patricia Lee Wynne* The defeat in Ecuador of President Guillermo Lasso in the regional elections of February 5 and the rejection of the referendum to reform the Constitution are the latest setbacks marking the decline of US influence in South America. Against the predictions of all polls, the Ecuadorian population rejected the referendum proposed […]
In Bolivia, half of the 336 administrative districts have been affected by persistent drought since 2022, with 5,559 municipalities and 647,015 families suffering severely. Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani reported this at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Regional Water Dialogues in Santiago de Chile. He said that 90%t […]
This video by “Feiko” from the Netherlands explores how excessive conformity and blind obedience have infected the West, displacing the cultivation of courage. Thoughts on how widespread cowardice enables the rise of authoritarianism and how a rebirth of courage is the antidote to the world’s precarious political situation. All credits, royalties, and sincere thanks to […]
In a recent speech, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, again emphasized his interest in creating a National Guard still in 2023. This action, however, needs the approval of a PEC (Proposal of Constitutional Amendment) by the National Congress. The planning of the National Guard aims to protect federal public buildings in Brasília, as well […]
By Brandon Smith (Opinion) At the beginning of the Covid event in late 2019 to early 2020, the public had little to no information on the details surrounding the outbreak in Wuhan, China, and what kind of virus the world might face. The virus was coming to western shores, so the public had to prepare […]
By Gustavo Pires* (Opinion) For many people and for several reasons, Carnival is the most awaited event of the year. After January 1, it is the first national recess of the year, with the potential to be extended by Ash Wednesday or the bridge all week. This is quite an incentive for travel, but it […]
In a political event and the tone of an electoral campaign, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) signed this Tuesday (14) a provisional measure that recreates "Minha Casa Minha Vida" (My Home, My Life), one of the main marks of the previous PT administrations. The program will serve families living in urban areas with […]
Under the presidency of Justice Rosa Weber, the National Council of Justice (CNJ) decided unanimously on Tuesday afternoon (14) to remove Judge Ludmila Lins Grilo. The decision was made under the presidency of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Luis Felipe Solomon, and cited opinions of the judge expressed in her social networks, lectures, and other […]
By Joe Martino (Opinion) AI is both a fascinating topic to me and a scary one. On the one hand, AI has helped and can continue to help our lives in many ways – a statement that makes me slightly tense to write because we’ve come to mostly think of AI as a ‘dangerous’ thing […]
The main banks operating in Brazil profited more than R$96 billion (US$18.5 billion) in 2022. The amount corresponds to a nominal increase of about 6% in relation to the previous year. In 2022, the sum corresponded to R$90 billion. Banco do Brasil (BB), Bradesco,
A request to create a Parliamentary Front Against the Early Sexualization of Children and Adolescents was filed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (14). The initiative is from federal congressman Messias Donato (Republicanos-ES). The congressman is now seeking the support of the parliamentarians for the Front to be installed. Donato had obtained 21 signatures […]
Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL, right) said he should return to Brazil in March to lead the opposition to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, progressive-globalist). The statement was made in an interview with the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal published on Tuesday (Feb. 14). Bolsonaro has been in the United States since […]
Bolivia will start industrial steel production in 2024, said this Tuesday the president of the Empresa Siderúrgica del Mutún (ESM), Jorge Alvarado, when he stated that the progress of the construction of the Mutún Steel Plant had reached 69 percent. “We are certain that this project will become a reality this year so that by […]
Ecuador’s total exports reached US$32,66 billion between January and December 2022, representing an increase of 22.3 percent compared to the same period in 2021, the Central Bank of the country reported on Tuesday. The figures, which show dynamism in foreign sales, were released through the “Report Evolution of the Trade Balance by Products January-December 2022” […]
The president of the Central Bank of Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, ratified yesterday, Tuesday, his opposition to revising the inflation targets for 2023 and allowing a decrease in the basic interest rate of the Brazilian economy. Campos Neto responded in this way to the intention of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government, which seeks […]
Unesco has invited President Lula, Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso, and youtuber Felipe Neto to a forum on social media regulation between February 21 and 23 in Paris. On several occasions, Lula supported the idea. "We need, to some extent, to regulate the internet and social media so that they follow the rails of […]
