By Mordechai Taji – Argentina's authorities are losing grip of the economy as the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar hit AR$ 497 Tuesday before recoiling to AR$ 487, then bouncing back to AR$ 490, down again to AR$ 487 and back up once more to AR$ 495 amid growing unrest.
The blue (a euphemism for black market) dollar went up another AR$S 20 Monday to close at AR$ 462 and somehow match inflation in other items of the country's economy, which it was lagging.
Beginning in June, Argentina will resume exporting oil to Chile after 17 years, the website Rio Negro reported.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed into law an amendment to the Statute of Racial Equality, requiring the inclusion of race and ethnicity information in administrative employee records in the public and private sectors. The move is intended to promote ethnic equality and combat social inequalities resulting from racism, according to the federal government. Law 14.553/23 also mandates a survey conducted every five years by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics to measure the percentage of occupation of these segments in the public sector. The government aims to produce information that can help overcome racial stigmas and guide public policy implementation.
Mexican Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López Monday denied President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had suffered a heart attack or was even hospitalized following local media reports in that regard. AMLO is in isolation due to Covid-19, it was reported.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Monday told a group of businessmen in the Portuguese city of Porto that his country was not willing to sell any public company but it would nevertheless welcome private entrepreneurship to partner with us in what we need to create anew.
The United States has resumed its deportation flights to Cuba of the so-called undesirable migrants after the procedures were halted during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed.