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Montevideo, May 4th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

Stories for May 2023

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Brazil: 70% increase in sexual assaults against children reported

    The victims' cries for help come in very subtle ways, an expert explained

    In the first four months of 2023, 17.5 thousand sexual violations against children or adolescents were registered by the Dial 100 emergency line, a 70% interannual increase, according to Brazil's Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship data released by Agencia Brasil.

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Falklands releases King Charles III coronation commemorative 50 pence coins

    The design features the official Coronation Emblem for His Majesty King Charles III which includes the wording 'King Charles III - Coronation - 6th May 2023.

    The treasury of the Falkland Islands government has released new commemorative 50-pence coins which mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, which took place on the 6th May.

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Bolsonaro's son fined again by TSE

    Flávio Bolsonaro was also fined R$ 5,000 for sharing a video leading people to believe Lula had been possessed by the devil.

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and other legislators were fined R$ 10,000 (about US$ 2,000) Thursday by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for spreading false information against current head of state Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Construction of Chinese multipurpose mega port in Peru runs into trouble

    COSCO is building a 1.8 km tunnel under a residential neighborhood in the city of Chancay to connect the port with a highway

    Peru's Prosecution Office has launched an investigation into China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd after a landslide at one of the company’s tunnel construction sites at the major mega-port of Chancay in the country. The incident, which took place in the coastal province of Huaral, damaged at least four houses near the tunnel and forced the company to suspend construction.

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

    Ecuador's elections to be set for Aug. 20?

    In the meantime, Lasso will try “to do in six months what we had planned to do in two years.”

    Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE) President Diana Atamaint Thursday said the snap elections could be held on Aug. 20 with a possible runoff on Oct. 15, it was reported in Quito.

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 10:03 UTC

    Conviction of former Paraguayan ministers upheld by Supreme Court

    Cardozo was Minister of Agriculture and Livestock during the government of President Fernando Lugo (2008-2012)

    The prison sentences of former ministers of Agriculture and Livestock Enzo Cardozo and Rody Godoy for fraud and breach of trust were confirmed Thursday by Paraguay's Supreme Court, which turned down the unconstitutionality actions filed by the defendants, who were therefore transferred to the national Tacumbú penitentiary for the next 10 and 7 years respectively.

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

    A BRICS revival is capable of challenging Western led international institutions?

    BRICS saw their economic alignment as an opportunity to expand their global influence by creating an alternative to West-led international institutions

    By Ana Palacios, WASHINGTON, DC – There was a time when everyone was talking about a group of fast-growing emerging economies with huge potential. But the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – struggled to transform themselves from a promising asset class into a unified real-world diplomatic and financial player. Is this finally changing?

  • Friday, May 19th 2023 - 09:00 UTC

    Brazilian meatpackers in US facing rough times because of less cattle and inflation

    JBS and Marfrig plants in the US suffered squeezed margins due to higher cattle prices amid low supply

    Brazilian meatpackers have seen their balance sheet profits drop significantly during the first quarter of the year given the negative performance of sales in the United States. Losses have been considered more serious than those caused by the nearly month long suspension of Brazilian beef sales to China, the country's other main market.

  • Thursday, May 18th 2023 - 14:12 UTC

    Brazil arrests dozens and busts network which shipped millions of dollars in drugs to European ports

    The Federal Police said the Paranagua port region was used to store drugs, exporting large amounts of cocaine and other illicit drugs in containers, mainly to European ports

    Several law enforcement departments in Brazil were involved in busting a criminal organization linked to international and interstate drug trafficking from the port of Paranaguá, along the Paraná river in the state of Parana. The operation under the code name “Downfall” included the Brazilian Federal Police, PF, the Civil Force from the state of Paraná and the Federal Revenue Office.

  • Thursday, May 18th 2023 - 14:06 UTC

    The next five years, “the warmest on record”, anticipates the UN's Meteorological Organization

    WMO said that greenhouse gases and the combined effect of El Nino — a naturally weather phenomenon — would cause temperatures to soar in from 2023 to 2027

    The next five years are expected to be the warmest period on record, the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Wednesday. “There is a 98-percent likelihood that at least one of the next five years, and the five-year period as a whole, will be the warmest on record,” the WMO said.