Stories for January 2023

Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 09:39 UTC
UK might contribute to Brazil's Amazon Fund

The United Kingdom might join Germany and Norway as a donor to Brazil's Amazon Fund to boost sustainability in the rainforest, British Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said.
Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 00:40 UTC
“The return of Lula da Silva and his old habits”

O Estado de Sao Paulo is the leading daily of Brazil particularly in the financial capital of the country, Sao Paulo, closely linked to markets, stock exchange and foreign trade and investments, and by the looks of it no darling of president Lula da Silva. In effect its main editorial on the taking office of the president read something like, “the return of Lula and his old habits”.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 23:02 UTC
Not bananas: shrimp now Ecuador's second-most-exported product

After a steady growth since 2018, shrimp has taken over as Ecuador's second-most exported item behind oil, thus toppling bananas from a notch they had held for quite a while, it was reported in Quito.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 20:09 UTC
US: First transgender inmate slated for lethal injection

Transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin is scheduled to become Tuesday the first person with that condition to be put to death by lethal injection after Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) denied that last clemency request. She was convicted of killing her girlfriend in 2003.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 20:04 UTC
Lula attends Pelé's wake

One of the main events Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva had to participate only two days after his inauguration was the wake of former football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento: Pelé.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 19:07 UTC
Circulation of Covid-19 increasing in Argentina

Argentine health authorities Tuesday warned of an increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 and insisted there was “very high circulation” of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, due to which people were advised to update their vaccination scheme since immunity lasts about 4 months.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 17:12 UTC
“A scandal over fake passports”: Financial Times warns that reputation of Uruguay is threatened

The Financial Times described the event that is currently being investigated by the Uruguayan Justice related to the former presidential custodian Alejandro Astesiano and the implications that have arisen around the entourage of President Luis Lacalle Pou.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:55 UTC
Lula's first day if office, meeting Latin American leaders and a selloff in Petrobras shares

As the Brazilian president Lula da Silva settled in his first day in office in the Planalto Palace, Latin American leaders met with the inaugurated president, who faced his first financial challenge, stocks had fallen more than 3%, led by a selloff of shares in state-run oil company Petrobras.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:19 UTC
This year will be tougher than 2022, IMF's Georgieva forecasts

With the world's three major economies -the United States, the European Union, and China- slowing down simultaneously, 2023 will be “tougher than the year we left behind,” International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said during an interview with CBS. She also heralded in Washington that “a third of the world economy will be affected by a recession.”
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:13 UTC
Complicated 2023 for the Chilean economy as copper prices slide and political stability is fragile

In early December Chile's central bank said the country's economy was set to contract between 1.75% and 0.75% in 2023, however in 2022 GDP is seen rising 2,4%, with a formidable takeoff in the first half of last year.