María drank a concoction with avocado seeds, leaves of “bad mother” and other plants to try to interrupt their pregnancy, but it didn’t work and it ran out of options. abort in Venezuela it is illegal and is only accessible clandestinely if you have money. 26 years old and mother of five girls, María lives […]
Tag: Latin America
Support for democracy falls in Latin America and support for authoritarianism grows
Support for democracy in latin america fell in the last decade, while support for authoritarianism grows, especially among the youngest, revealed the latest Latinobarómetro survey released this Friday in Santiago. “Democracy, far from being consolidated, has entered a recession” in Latin America, said sociologist Marta Lagos, director of the Latinobarómetro corporation, when presenting the results […]
Unicef: Latin America suffers complex child migration crisis
Unicef has received 10.7 million euros (US$ 11.1 million) from the European Union (EU) that will be used to care for almost 500,000 people, 318,000 of them childrenin 7 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that lives “one of the largest and most complex child migration crises in the world”. “Due to […]
IDB: Latin America needs more investment to meet development goals in 2030
Latin America and the Caribbean need an additional investment of more than US$ 200 billion a year in infrastructure to meet the sustainable development goals by 2030, an official warned Tuesday. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). “There is a huge infrastructure and quality deficit; only a third of the roads are paved and one in four […]
Latin America has the potential to boost liquid biofuels, say experts
Latin America has the potential to drive the biofuels liquids for its vast agricultural production and that there is also a commitment in the region to move in that direction, informed this Wednesday the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and experts. IICA indicated in a press release that there is a great commitment […]
“Drug trafficking is a global business, but Colombia puts up the dead,” according to a writer
The Colombian writer Gustavo Forero denounced this Wednesday at the Semana Negra cultural festival in Gijón (northern Spain) that he drug trafficking It is a global business that moves more money than the budgets of many states, although it is “stigmatizes” to countries like yours when they are the ones who “they put the dead”. […]
FAO: agricultural and fishing production in Latin America will grow 12% by 2032
The effects of the volatility of international trade and increasingly abrupt climate change will drive a sluggish 12% growth in agricultural and fisheries production in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the recent report OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032. According to the report, released this week, the region will concentrate 30% of the global production […]
FAO: agricultural production in Latin America will grow by 12% in the next decade
Agricultural and fishing production in Latin America and the Caribbean will increase by 12% in the next decade, but at a “slower” pace than in the past and among challenges such as the volatility of world trade, as predicted today in a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). “Agricultural […]
When the sun goes down, a secret and magical garden appears in Buenos Aires
Between trees, plants and flowers, some of them unique in their kind, the statues come to life. Colorful butterflies and fireflies come out of the darkness to guard the path to a hidden treasure that will leave anyone who discovers it open-mouthed. “Secret Garden” (Secret Garden) is an open-air light exhibition, the first of its […]
Attracting capital, the great challenge for the energy transition in Latin America
Latin America it starts on the road to the energy transition with an advantageous position, but the development of alternative sources faces the difficult challenge of attracting capital flows to finance it. This was explained by the executive secretary of the Association of Oil, Gas and Renewable Energy Companies of Latin America and the Caribbean […]