“This year in Latin America and the Caribbean, a record number of boys and girls have transited key migration routes,” UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a statement. Gary Conille. Among these unprecedented numbers are the 99,995 minors who have trekked through the jungles of India Darien between last January […]
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The program to expand access to water will impact more than a million people
He Waterloops programmewho wants to guarantee access to this service Latin Americaannounced the launch of its second phase, expanding its impact in Colombia, Mexico and Paraguay, and including Ecuador as a new country of the project. Also read: They propose the railway to bring water to La Guajira After the first phase, which ran between […]
Alert to increasing attacks on freedom of expression in Latin America
The ex-governors who signed the statement remember the leather hemispheric on freedom of expression as established by the IACHR: Freedom of expression, particularly in matters of public interest, “is a cornerstone in the existence of a society democratic“. In this regard, they stressed that it should not be guaranteed only with regard to the spread […]
EU and Latin America debate over war in Ukraine
Around 60 heads of state and government from all over the world met in Brussels. The summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, an organization of 33 countries) continues in the capital of the European Union. Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Germany’s Olaf Scholz, France’s Emmanuel Macron, […]
‘Romina Poderosa’, a leap of life and an endless race
‘Romina Poderosa’, a leap of faith, is a series that is on air Snail Television. It highlights a powerful young woman, who discovers that she has a twin sister and was separated at birth due to living circumstances, yet she continues to have an unstoppable personality. (Read: ‘Defiant’, will be the opening film of the […]
World economy will grow by 2.1% in 2023: World Bank
However, “the recent tensions in the banking sector will credit terms and this will result in a substantial slowdown in growth in the second half of this year,” says the World Bank. Thus, for 2023 as a whole, global activity is expected to slow down, with a pronounced slowdown in developed economies, which will grow […]
UN announces economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean
In an update to his economic forecasts, United Nations it left the original calculation it published last January unchanged, unlike what happened to other parts of the world and for the global economy as a whole, where there were upward revisions. In the Latin American case, the report indicates that after the robust growth of […]
The ‘American Dream’: US Measures to Control Illegal Migration
The “American dream” is a concept rooted in history and the collective imagination of people, mostly Latin Americans, about the United States. It represents the idea that any individual, regardless of background or social status, can achieve success, prosperity and a better life through hard work and determination on American soil. However, over the years, […]
IMF lowers its growth forecast for Colombia by 2023
Colombia will experience very moderate growth of 1% in 2023 and 1.9% in 2024. Inflation will rise to 10.9% this year but moderate to 5.2% next year, the new report indicated for the global economic outlook International Monetary Fund (IMF), published this Tuesday. In this sense, the IMF lowered its forecast by 0.1 percentage point […]
Latin America will grow slightly in 2023, but will have high inflation: IMF
The document estimates that the region will grow by 1.6% in 2023two-tenths below what was previously expected, and a far cry from the 4% growth it recorded in 2022. And it is that many Latin American countries are commodity exporters, something that played in their favor last year, thanks to the increase in food or […]