Chili This Tuesday it became the first country in the world to ratify the Global Treaty of the Oceansa historic agreement for the conservation of marine biodiversity in international waters (high seas) and which seeks to protect 30% of the seas by 2030. Unanimously, the Chilean Senate approved the so-called Agreement on Marine Biodiversity Beyond […]
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Three keys to understanding the voracious corruption that corrodes Guatemala
Bernardo Arevalo his investiture on Sunday as president of Guatemala. For months he faced a judicial onslaught attributed to the country’s powerful economic and political elite with one purpose: to perpetuate corruption. Executed by the Prosecutor’s Office, the offensive sought to withdraw his immunity, achieved the suspension of his Semilla party and tried to annul […]
An Ecuador in a “state of war” faces the power of drug trafficking for the third day
Desolate streets, closed businesses and the center of Quito militarized. A Ecuador immersed in “state of war” faces the power of drug traffickers this Wednesday for the third day under a climate of panic and fatigue. “(Today I feel) a little anger, fear was yesterday”Fernando Escobar, owner of a cafeteria in the Ecuadorian capital, tells […]
Ecuador, the most violent country in Latin America: a person dies almost every hour
Although the insecurity crisis has been dragging on for almost three years, Ecuador It hit rock bottom in 2023 and will end with a violent death rate of more than 40 per 100,000 inhabitants, making it the most violent country in Latin America. And it is that in Ecuador Almost every hour a person dies […]
Canada grants temporary residence to relatives of Canadian citizens in Gaza
The Canadian Government announced this Thursday that it will grant temporary residence in the country to relatives of Canadian citizens who are in the country. Gaza Strip although he acknowledged that he cannot guarantee that those benefiting from the measure will be able to leave the territory at this time. Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller […]
Digitalization and regional integration, notable activities of the IEO in 2023
The digital transformation in the classrooms of the Dominican Republic or indigenous communities of Mexico and the launch of the Ibero-American Chair in Buenos Aires are examples of the more than 300 projects that the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) launched in 2023. As reported this Thursday by the organization, […]
The US believes that a negotiated political solution should be achieved on the Sahara
USA believes that “a negotiated political solution must be achieved without further delay” to resolve the conflict over the territory of the Sahara Occidental, according to a statement from the State Department released on the occasion of the visit to Morocco by US Undersecretary Joshua Harris, which began this Sunday. Harris, responsible for US diplomacy […]
Gaza “is no longer a habitable place”, only misery and pain remains, says the UN
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Loop “it is no longer a habitable place” and the level of pain and misery is such that the hungry population cannot wait for the distribution of the limited food that comes in and try to get something to eat directly from the trucks, the head of the agency of the UN for the Palestinians. […]
Gaza war orphans left without close family to care for them
While playing with dolls in a hospital bed Loop, With one leg in a cast and scars on her face, 10-year-old Razan Shabat is unaware that her mother, father and siblings died in the attack that injured her. The little girl is one of the growing number of children in Gaza who have lost both […]
Israel intensifies offensive in Gaza, a “hell on earth”, according to the UN
The situation in the Gaza Strip resembles “hell on earth,” the head of the Gaza Strip agency said on Tuesday. UN for Palestinian refugees, on a visit to the devastated territory, where Israeli troops and Islamist Hamas militiamen are fighting fierce battles. Israel has been bombing the narrow Palestinian territory since October 7, in response […]