Opinion: 13 setbacks by Lula da Silva in the first days in the Presidency
Bruna Komarchesqui*
(Opinion) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's third term as President of the Republic completes a week this Sunday...
Argentina and China agree swap deal
Argentina and China have formalized the expansion of a currency swap agreement. According to the central bank "Banco Central...
New foreign exchange law is in force in Brazil
In Brazil, the new foreign exchange law passed at the end of 2021 came into force on December 31, 2022, after regulation by the...
‘Global investor focus left Brazil for Asia,’ says Goldman Sachs
Opinion is from Caesar Maasry, head of emerging markets and global investments at Goldman Sachs.
Brazilian assets may even achieve...
Opinion: political prisoners and Ortega’s blackmail to the US
By Judith Flores
(Opinion) 2023 begins for Nicaraguans with a regime that achieved total control of the country's institutions, rumors...
Mexico plans to acquire Black Hawk helicopters and heavy transport aircraft in 2023
Mexico plans to acquire new air equipment in 2023. As reported, the Command of...
New foreign exchange law is in force in Brazil
In Brazil, the new foreign exchange law passed at the end of 2021 came into force on December 31,...
‘Global investor focus left Brazil for Asia,’ says Goldman Sachs
Opinion is from Caesar Maasry, head of emerging markets and global investments at Goldman Sachs.
Brazilian assets may even achieve...
Brazil: new exchange law paves the way for international Pix
Since December 31, 2022, a law has been in force that paves the way for the “international Pix”.
The Central Bank of Brazil (BC) is...
Alexandre de Moraes removes Ibaneis Rocha from the Federal District government
Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) ordered the removal, for 90 days, of Ibaneis Rocha (MDB) from the position of governor of the Federal District, due to acts of vandalism...
Lula’s justice minister calls the invasion of Brazilian Congress ‘terrorism’ and refers to arrest of financiers
Shortly after, President Lula da Silva decreed federal intervention in Brazil's Federal District because of the invasion of the National Congress in Brasilia the government's Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Flavio Dino, made a...
Justin Trudeau says 2023 is the year Rebel News must die
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Argentina and China agree swap deal
Argentina and China have formalized the expansion of a currency swap agreement. According to the central bank "Banco Central de la República Argentina" (BCRA), this allows the South American country to increase its depleted foreign...
Cholera outbreak in Haiti kills hundreds
The outbreak of cholera three months ago killed 452 people in Haiti. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on Monday (9th).
According to the latest official report, Haitian health authorities have confirmed a total...
Maduro and Petro intensify their “bilateral relationship” with a meeting in Caracas
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, held an extraordinary meeting this Sunday at the Miraflores Palace, Caracas, after the complete reopening of the border between the two countries last...
Chile’s justice minister and presidential chief of staff resign in Boric’s second major crisis
One week after the controversy sparked by the pardons of 12 convicts of the 2019 riots and a former member of the radical armed group Patriotic Front Manuel Rodriguez (FPMR), Chile's justice minister, Marcela Ríos, has resigned.
The announcement was made by the country's president,...
Uruguay approves Google’s Firmina cable
Uruguay has approved the laying of Google's 'Firmina' undersea fiber optic cable, clearing another hurdle to launching the longest-ever single-ended power cable.
Announced in June...
BNDES approves financing of US$94 million for Embraer’s flying cars
Eve Soluções de Mobilidade Aérea Urbana Ltda (Eve), an independent company founded by Embraer, will receive R$490 (US$94) million from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) to execute the first phase of...
Brazil: Bitcoin law passed quietly
Brazil's President Jair Messias Bolsonaro has remained silent on the bitcoin law (number 4.401/2021) passed by Congress fifteen days ago, thereby automatically ensuring approval.
After publication in the Official Journal, the binding legal norm will come...
Latin America startups broke debt record in 2022 due to capital shortage
By Yanin Alfaro
Investment in risky debt reached an all-time high in Latin America, accumulating US$1.3 billion in risky debt in 2022. This already exceeds the annual record of US$823 million in 2021, highlights an analysis...
Carabineros de Chile tenders the purchase of 1,054 police vehicles
The Carabineros de Chile Logistics Department opened a purchase process for 1,054 new police vehicles as part of stage III of the institutional operational park replacement program.
According to the bidding rules, which Infodefensa.com agreed to, the tender includes 500 4x2 SUV police vans with...
Brazil’s defense budget for 2023 prioritizes shipbuilding
The Brazilian Budget Bill for 2023 provides for a total allocation of R$124.442 billion (US$22.709 billion) for Defense.
However, what would appear to be a nominal increase of 4.4% in the total budget in relation to...
The Armed Forces of Uruguay facing 2023: a year to get excited… or not
As has become a custom in recent governments, year after year the big decisions related to the Uruguayan Armed Forces are postponed.
While the rest of the world can go through periods of less or more...
Colombia allocates US$131 million for the purchase of the Barak MX anti-aircraft system
The Colombian Air Force has agreed, on December 30, with the company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) the purchase of the Barak MX anti-aircraft defense system.
The contract, which amounts to US$131.2 million -through process No. 23-2022...
Opinion: 13 setbacks by Lula da Silva in the first days in the Presidency
Bruna Komarchesqui*
(Opinion) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's third term as President of the Republic completes a week this Sunday (Jan. 8) with a series of setbacks that have alerted the investor market, taxpayers, and ordinary...
Documentary: Brazil, a last stand in the Americas
This two-part original documentary series by NTD Brazil and The Epoch Times investigates foreign interest in the Brazilian elections and Latin America’s new turn into hard leftism.
The series, described by former Foreign Minister of Brazil...
Overwhelming success of right-wing reforms in Greece: unemployment fell to the lowest level in the last 12 years
The labor reform promoted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis laid the foundations for the reactivation of the economy and the recovery of the labor market. The Minister deepened the deregulation of labor legislation in order...
Davos forum declares that people do not have the right to own their own cars: “You can walk or share”
The World Economic Forum (WEF) which is led by Klaus Schwab and meets every year in Davos, has added to its mission statement that people do not have the right to own their own car and can instead "walk or carpool".
According to the WEF,...
Shakira to perform concerts in Brazil in 2023
Shakira has announced three shows in Brazil this year.
The Colombian singer announced presentations in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo in September...
Rio de Janeiro’s Sugar Loaf’s cable car completes 110 years
Rio's Sugar Loaf's cable car completes 110 years on Thursday, October 27, and offers special attractions to celebrate the date.
During the day, those who celebrate their birthday on October 27 can get free tickets. The...
Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Tomorrow opens exhibition about the heart
The exhibition S2 - Heart, Pulse of Life, held by Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Tomorrow in partnership with the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), presents, starting on October 13, the heart as a machine...
Brazil: Oktoberfest Rio returns with samba, pagode, and 120,000 liters of beer
Rio de Janeiro's Oktoberfest Rio returns in 2022 with full force - after two years interrupted because of the pandemic - to quench the thirst, hunger, and longing of lovers of good beer, German food,...
China is pushing Argentina to build a naval base
China is again pressuring Argentina to establish a naval base in Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego province, which would open the door to Antarctica for Beijing.
The military base would allow China to control the passage...
In the midst of a recession, Biden puts the US at the feet of globalism with a monstrous Stimulus Bill
Biden managed to approve before the renewal of Congress a brutal increase in public spending, which includes millions of dollars for "LGBT causes" and aid to Ukraine, after Zelensky visited the country.
In the past week,...
Opinion: why the war in Ukraine is still ongoing
(Opinion) The war in Ukraine has been going on for almost a year now. There is no doubt that it is a war between Russia and the West, Russia and NATO, and Russia and the...
Have a look at how demographics will decide the world’s history
Demographics will decide the world's history within the following decades. 2045 is the year in which, as the U.S. Census Bureau projects, Whites will become a minority in their own country.
The same trend is observable in Europe.
In the eighties, these continents began transforming from...