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Analysis: Is Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeking police support before elections with cabinet reshuffle?

President Jair Bolsonaro rattled Brazilian politics and irked military commanders with a major cabinet reshuffle this week but one powerful...

April 1, 2021

Venezuela lives its worst day of the pandemic with 1,348 contagions and 13 deaths

In the last 24 hours, 1,348 people were infected with the new coronavirus in Venezuela and 13 died from covid-19,...

April 1, 2021

Latin America struggles with vaccine inequality in light of a third wave

The threat of a third wave of covid-19 continues to grow in Latin America, which, with limited resources and marked...

April 1, 2021

Brazil’s Anvisa rejects bid to import Bharat Biotech vaccine

Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Wednesday, March 31, rejected a request from the government to import doses of Covaxin, the...

March 31, 2021

Between crisis and fear of collapse, a Covid wave reaches Venezuela

After a year of coexistence with covid-19, the Brazilian mutation has caused the great wave of contagions to reach the...

March 31, 2021

Eruption of Pacaya volcano in Guatemala affects 1,300 farming families

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Pacaya volcano, one of the most active of the 32 volcanoes in Guatemala, registered...

March 31, 2021

Brazil has the 2nd worst gender inequality in Latin America, says Economic Forum

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One of the countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, Brazil has...

March 31, 2021

Brazilian franchisors put the brakes on internationalization process

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The president of the Brazilian Society of Retail and Consumption, Eduardo Terra, evaluates 2021 as...

March 31, 2021

Hospitals in Ecuador’s capital overwhelmed by Covid-19 infections, doctors say

Ecuador’s health system is under severe strain from a spike in coronavirus infections, doctors in the country’s capital said on...

March 31, 2021