As expected by most analysts, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), and the Central Reserve Bank (BCR), Peru's economy registered its first decline in 22 months in January 2023, negatively impacted by social protests due to political tensions and road blockades that affected several productive sectors in the Andean country. According to the National […]
After more than a year and a half in prison, Canadian Michael Carey Abadin, who also holds Cuban citizenship, has been released, reports the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM). Like Dresden resident Luis Frómeta Compte, the 20-year-old Canadian had been arrested during the July 2021 protests. IGFM further reports that German-Cuban Luis Frómeta Compte […]
A dark spot on the sea was enough to attract the attention of authorities near the island of Arousa (Spain) on Monday (13). Suspecting something was amiss, Spanish authorities found an empty narco-submarine on site. The "ghost submarine" found in Colombian waters brought to two the number of vessels seized this week that are used […]
The former president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, published on Monday a letter after completing two years of unjust detention by the regime of Luis Arce. In the message, she emphasized how, from the power, they have failed to present any objective evidence that compromises her in terrorist acts, sedition, or conspiracy. "Every judge without jurisdiction […]
When countries are powerfully united by fundamental aspects of their history, culture, and economy, when millions of families live on both sides of the border, as is the case of Mexico and the United States, it is very difficult to think separately to make decisions that affect both nations. Forty million Mexicans live in the […]
On Monday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced opening a "second peace process" with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorists who did not join the one agreed upon in 2016. "A second Peace process begins. A table will be established between the government and the Central General Staff," Petro has informed in a message […]
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, boasted this Monday at a press conference that his country is safer than the United States. "It is safer Mexico than the United States. There is no problem in traveling through Mexico safely. But this is also known by US citizens and, of course, by our countrymen […]
The challenge for the almost immediate future of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) is not recent, but the onset of the economic crisis has already started to mark that path more clearly this year. The way things are going, thinking about what could happen until the end of the year might not be so helpful […]
The former Minister of Public Works of Ecuador, María de los Ángeles Duarte Pesantes, escaped at the beginning of this week from the Argentine embassy in Quito, where she was in political asylum. She is in the middle of the judicial process, which resulted in her sentence in 2020 to serve 8 years in prison […]
The Nicaraguan regime has withdrawn permits from two more universities alleging alleged irregularities that have already served in the past to close and outlaw parties and organizations contrary to the lines defended by the country's president, Daniel Ortega. Those affected are the Panamerican University of Nicaragua (UPAN) and the University of the Pacific (UNIP), both […]
Although the effects and scope of the banking crisis in the United States are still unknown, financial market analysts say that, with the information available so far, the Central Bank of Brazil will not have so soon room to start reducing the Selic rate. On Monday, after the bankruptcy of
By Carlos F. B. Martin Perhaps it is no accident that Roberto Piva's poetry is returning, still marked by conservative forces that unabashedly asserted themselves in Brazil in recent years. At the request of Companhia das Letras publisher, critic and professor Alcir Pécora gathered the author's poems again. He had previously organized Roberto Piva's work. […]
A historic floor was found under the garden of Catete Palace during the modernization of the building's sewage system, which began a month ago. The exquisitely artistic tiles from the 19th century were found 75 centimeters below the ground in excellent condition. Archeologists who have been studying the Catete Palace for years were "surprised" since […]
