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1 May 2022 Edition - 08/22

According to official data published by the INDEC national statistics bureau on Thursday, the economy grew 9.1 percent year-on-year in February and by seven percent in the first two months of 2022.....
The forests on Peru's border with Brazil and Bolivia, are home to thousands of unique species but illegal loggers are here for other grandiose jungle treasures...

A brash libertarian is disrupting Argentina’s political duopoly. Milei and his libertarian allies took 17% of the vote in Buenos Aires in midterm elections last fall, helping deny the opposition the majority they wanted.....


No single company comes close to matching the reach of Walmart in Mexico.  Walmart has over 2,700 stores in the country, including chains it owns such as Sam’s Club and Bodega Aurrera....

Colombia's anti-fracking activists are facing increased threats and violence as two investigative pilot projects to extract oil and gas from unconventional fields move forward....

Cuban authorities say tourism’s current situation on the island is in a “gradual recovery” with the first quarter of this year having 313,908 foreign tourists visit the island......

Opportunities for international students to study in NZ

Nominations are progressing well for the border exception class of up to 5,000 international students announced earlier this year.  Places remain available for students with a number of English Language Schools (ELS) and Private Training Establishments (PTEs)....

A Brazilian federal court upheld the suspension of an environmental license for what would be the largest open-pit gold mine in the nation’s Amazon rainforest...

Chile government decrees opening of all of the country’s land borders that were closed during the coronavirus pandemic, starting May 1.....

 

Latin America’s central bankers are facing renewed pressure to extend aggressive interest-rate hikes after consumer prices stormed past estimates across the region, driven by soaring costs of raw materials....

COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESPONSE
Brazil decrees end of COVID-19 health emergency

Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga has signed a decree ending the COVID-19 public health emergency, effective 30 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.....

LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE & ARTS
 
Graffiti artists are painting murals recounting the history of Indigenous people and honoring their culture in the capital of Amazonas, the Brazilian state with the largest Indigenous population....

At the Galápagos National Park, located 600 miles from the west coast of Ecuador, time seems to have stood still for centuries. Many of the 127 islands, islets, and rocks in this distant and isolated archipelago are uninhabited but for creatures who have evolved into their own unique species thanks to that same isolation....

 

Colourful floats and flamboyant dancers are delighting tens of thousands jammed into Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sambadrome, putting on a delayed Carnival celebration after the pandemic halted the dazzling displays....

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