Angola's Bioenergy Company (Biocom) expects to produce this year about 120,000 tonnes of sugar, 19 million liters of ethanol, and 57,000 MWh of clean energy, an overall growth of 10% compared to the previous year, the company announced a few days ago in the municipality of Cacuso, Malanje province. According to Biocom's general manager, Uirá […]
South African oil company Sasol has discovered new natural gas reserves off the Mozambican coast of Inhassoro, south of the country, the National Petroleum Institute (INP) announced today. "Sasol Mozambique has discovered natural gas in the Bonito-1 exploration well, carried out in area PT5-C of the Mozambique Basin, located in the southern part of Inhassoro […]
By Mary Triny Zea Of the 10,000 new informal workers added monthly to the Panamanian economy, 9,000 come from commerce, construction, tourism, industry, logistics, and other service activities, said consultant and economist René Quevedo. “These sectors are no longer attractive for private investment”, he commented, pointing out that in all these sectors, small, medium, and […]
A second instance judge in Brazil on Saturday (April 29) overturned last week's blocking of the Telegram messaging service. According to the federal court, the latter had not handed over data on neo-Nazi groups active on the platform to authorities. Judge Flávio Lucas deemed the suspension of the application throughout the country "inappropriate" because it […]
The United States government has announced the donation of US$500 million to the Amazon Fund – among other initiatives to combat deforestation directed at Brazil. The US Congress must still approve the amount proposed by President Joe Biden. The announcement was made on April 20 during the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate after […]
The overwhelming victory of economist Santiago Peña in the presidential elections in Paraguay on Sunday (30) has slowed the left’s advance in Latin America and consolidated the power of the conservative Colorado Party. It secured a majority in the Senate and governorships in 15 of the nation’s 17 departments. Peña, 44, won by a wide […]
By Yvonne Yue Li and James Attwood By moving to a state-run system, the second-largest lithium producer risks hindering the supply of the highest-value mineral in the battery supply chain, just when the automotive world needs it more than ever. “Money is coward,” Canadian mining billionaire Robert Friedland said this week, predicting that the new […]
By Mariana Espina More than 310 kilometers from Mar del Plata is the Cuenca Argentina Norte (CAN) 102 block, a project whose shareholders are YPF (operator) and the Norwegian Equinor (EQNR), 50% each company. This week, the Secretary of Climate Change published the approval of the 3D seismic study to search for hydrocarbons in the […]
By Célio Yano In a speech at the International Agricultural Technology in Action Fair (Agrishow) on Monday (1), former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) criticized the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and said that the agro-industry "needs politicians who don't get in the way." "I have always said throughout my mandate: we are […]
By Daniel Salazar Castellanos Paraguayans elected this Sunday the candidate of the ruling Colorado party, Santiago Peña, as their new president in an election marked by crossed accusations of vote inducement and in which continuity prevailed. Peña, 44 years old, defeated liberal opponent Efraín Alegre in the eighth election since the end of Alfredo Stroessner’s […]
By Norbert Haering (Opinion) Fierce fighting with many civilian casualties has broken out in Sudan between two generals who have jointly ruled the country. The media portrays the affair as a simple rivalry between two militaries seeking undivided power. However, one fact that is conspicuously absent from the reports may play a role: Russia was […]
By Vandré Kramer A study done by the Millenium Institute based on data from the project Freedom to Work of the Liberal Institute of São Paulo (Ilisp) shows an increase of 88.9% in the annual average of companies opened after the approval of decrees or laws of economic freedom in municipalities. The survey also shows […]
The number of Brazilians wanting to live and work in the United States (US) is constantly growing. This is what a survey done by AG Immigration points out, with information obtained from the Department of Homeland Security. The numbers reveal that 23,596 citizens of Brazil received the American permanent residency document - the so-called green […]
By Mariana Haubert President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, progressive-globalist) confirmed the measures to increase the minimum wage and expand the income tax exemption range for those earning up to R$2,640 in his 3-minute and 53-second speech on national radio and television this Sunday. At the beginning of his speech, Lula said, without naming […]
Paraguay’s Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results (TREP) page informed that, with more than 80 percent of the tables counted, the candidate of the Colorado Party, Santiago Peña, 44, would be the elected president of the country, despite heavy Western funding of the liberal candidate. Up to 7:45 pm (local time) and with 11,308 tables processed […]
Two people died, and two others are still missing after a seaplane crashed into a dam in Bragança Paulista this Sunday afternoon (30). Fire Department teams were on site searching for the other two victims. The accident happened around 2:10 pm this Sunday afternoon at a dam in the Porto Jaguary, which is located on […]
In Brazil, the world's first slave revolt occurred at the end of the 1500s, which grew into a powerful black movement known today as the Palmares story. It lasted more than 100 years and threatened the institution of slavery, which was the foundation of the Brazilian economy. The Quilombo dos Palmares (Palmares for short) was […]
