Politics

Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:06 UTC
Did Volkswagen use slave labor during Brazil's dictatorship?

Brazil's Labor Attorney (MPT) has summoned carmaker Volkswagen for an administrative hearing following reports that the company benefitted from slave labor in the 1970s and 1980s in Santana do Araguaia, in the State of Pará, it was announced Monday.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:00 UTC
Brazilian rice exports booming; challenge for all three Mercosur partners

Brazilian rice exports (husk base) totaled 451.3 thousand tones during the first quarter, more than double the same period in 2021 when 207.7 thousand tons were shipped, reports the Brazilian Rice Industry Association (Abiarroz).
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:55 UTC
BRICS financing, a life-changer for Amazonia residents

Financing from the BRICS bank has been pivotal in boosting pavement, drainage, basic sanitation and sidewalk construction works in Brazil's Amazonia, it was reported.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:49 UTC
WHO says tobacco industry poisoning the planet, and sponsors “polluter pays principle” and banning cigarette filters

The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:40 UTC
China slowly lifting some COVID-19 restrictions

As Chinese authorities are beginning to announce a gradual easing of the harsh measures imposed as per the country's zero-COVID policy, one episode in Beijing has resulted in additional restrictions, it was reported.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:30 UTC
Mexico facing water shortages despite approaching heavy storms

Mexico's National Water Commission (Conagua) has been reported to be drafting a new emergency declaration after several of the country's basins are affected by severe droughts in at least one-third of the country.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:00 UTC
French newsman killed in Russia-Ukraine conflict

Newsman Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff has been killed Monday by a Russian grenade thrown against a humanitarian convoy in Donbass, French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 07:35 UTC
Presidents of Paraguay and Argentina oversee dam project

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez Monday welcomed his Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernández in Ayolas, 305 kilometers from Asunción, to attend a series of events involving joint undertakings in energy production.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Surprise runner-up to take on Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff

Leftwing candidate and former M19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, 62, won Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, as all polls had foreseen. But he will face 77-year-old populist Rodolfo Hernández at the runoff in three weeks, which nobody saw coming.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
More prosecutors killed in Latin America

Following the assassination of Paraguay's Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia, two other crimes have hit Latin American prosecutors in the last days of May.