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Stories for January 2023

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 18:50 UTC

    Religious intolerance on the rise in Brazil

    Mãe Gilda became a symbol for the religions of an African matrix after her home in Salvador was attacked

    According to the “II Report on Religious Intolerance: Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean,” a publication by the Center for Articulation of Marginalized Populations and the Observatory for Religious Freedoms, with support from the Representation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in Brazil, an increase in cases of religious intolerance has been detected in the country, Agencia Brasil reported. The survey was conducted as part of the Jan. 21 National Day Against Religious Intolerance.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 18:43 UTC

    Presidents Fernández and Lula launch new stage in Argentina-Brazil ties

    Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez welcomed Lula and Janja Da Silva at Casa Rosada. Photo: Casa Rosada

    Presidents Alberto Fernández of Argentina and Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of Brazil met Monday morning at Casa Rosada in what is regarded as the relaunching of bilateral ties after the Jair Bolsonaro years.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 15:58 UTC

    A news site set AI to write text and had to cancel the whole thing: it turns out bad

    As with automation in other parts of the workforce, some people don't trust companies to use AI ethically.

    The U.S. technology website CNET has stopped publishing articles written by Artificial Intelligence (AI), at least for the time being, as reported by The Verge.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    Hopefully, CELAC will “help us deepen links with China”, Argentine president

    “China in the region acts respecting our logic and our policies. They have been most respectful with the country, and I am very grateful”.

    Argentine president Alberto Fernandez is confident that “Celac can help deepen links with China”, and strongly criticized the United States for “demonizing” the Asian giant. On Monday/Tuesday Argentina and president Fernandez will be hosting the Community of Latin American and Caribbean, CELAC, seventh summit of heads of state when all the leaders of the region are expected to attend, including the 'bad boys' of the club such as Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, Cuban president Miguel Días Canel and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:57 UTC

    Lula da Silva overshadowing Mercosur diplomacy and trade agreements

    “If negotiations take place outside the Common External Tariff, they will destroy the common tariff, and destroying the tariff and Mercosur is in nobody's interest”

    A free trade agreement between Uruguay and China would destroy Mercosur since it contradicts the block's integration policies, according to Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said in a Sunday interview with Folha de Sao Paulo, a leading daily of the country's financial capital.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:47 UTC

    Brazil: Health emergency declared in Yanomami territory

    PT lawmakers want to hold Bolsonaro accountable for the malnutrition of the Yanomami people

    Brazilian authorities declared a public health emergency in the territories where the native Yanomami community resides in Roraima and set up the Center of Operations for Emergencies in Public Health (COE - Yanomami) reporting directly to the Indigenous Health Department (SESAI).

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Pope welcomes Ecuadorian President, calls for no more deaths in Peru

    Lasso and Francis met for 50 minutes.

    The Argentine-born Pope Francis welcomed Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso at the Vatican during the weekend to discuss indigenous issues and other matters concerning South America. Last week, the Catholic leader also held a meeting with Paraguay's Mario Abdo Benítez.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    Canada agrees to compensation for abuses of Indigenous peoples at the hands of the Catholic Church

    Starting in the early 19th century, the Canadian government forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families to take them to residential institutions under the church's administration.

    Canada has reached a settlement agreement worth US$2.09 billion, (€1.93 billion) with representatives of Indigenous peoples, abused for nearly a century by Church residential institutions. The sum will be placed in a not-for-profit trust aimed at financing Indigenous education, culture, and language, the Canadian government announced.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 08:18 UTC

    Lula lands in BA to sign bilateral deals and attend Celac Summit

    Lula was welcomed by Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva landed Sunday shortly after 9 pm Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery to hold a series of state meetings with local authorities on Monday and attend the VII summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) on Tuesday.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 07:53 UTC

    Some 200 Peruvian protesters arrested for occupying university campus

    PNP troops evicted the demonstrators from the university campus

    Peruvian authorities have arrested some 200 demonstrators during the weekend after the March of the Four Suyos (Inca empire provinces) advanced on Lima -the so-called “Lima Takeover”- demanding President Dina Boluarte's resignation, in addition to fresh elections and a constituent assembly.