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Harvard: $100 million to compensate descendants of slaves

This announcement is a consequence of the profound internal review of the role that the university played during slavery (Capture street view) American Harvard University announced this Tuesday the creation of a

April 27, 2022

Argentina

“Justicieras” trains women to confront sexist violence in Bolivia

Gina Baldivieso (EFE) / Cochabamba Being a lawyer, social worker or psychologist is the goal of some thirty Bolivian women who have suffered from sexist violence or its consequences and who are

April 27, 2022

Bolivia

Consumers will bear R$ 30.2 billion of deficit in the electricity sector in 2022

In 2022, the consumer will bear a deficit of R$ 30.219 billion in the Energy Development Account (CDE). The estimate was approved this Tuesday (26) by the board of the National Electric

April 27, 2022

Brasil

Front system: Minister Jeanette Vega informs extension in shelter quotas

The Minister of Social Development, Jeanette Vegaannounced the extension in capacity and opening of shelters, regarding the frontal system that affects communes from the Valparaíso region to the Aysén region, including the

April 27, 2022

Chile

Consequences for Latin America of the traffic jam in the port of Shanghai

Dozens of Chinese cities are under partial or total confinement these days, after a new surge in coronavirus cases in the Asian giant that threatens the authorities’ controversial “zero covid” strategy. Due

April 27, 2022

Colombia

They arrest an important drug supplier in Minga Guazú

This is Juan Alberto Figueredo, alias “Tuku”, who lives in the San Ramón neighborhood of Minga Guazú, as far as the anti-drug agents seized more than 100 grams of cocaine from the

April 27, 2022

Paraguay

Police send troops to Las Bambas for possible eviction of invading community members (VIDEO)

Last Monday afternoon, eight buses full of policemen left Cusco bound for Apurímac, to the area adjacent to the Las Bambas mine, where for two weeks, community members from Fuerabamba have been

April 26, 2022

Peru

Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Turquía, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, haciendo saludo de «Lobos Grises» a comunidad armenia en Uruguay.

Broad Front criticized the government for receiving the Turkish foreign minister on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, making a “Grey Wolves” salute to the Armenian community in Uruguay. The Broad Front expressed its concern “over the recent events during the visit

April 26, 2022

Uruguay

R. Dominican confiscates 1.4 tons of cocaine sent from La Guajira

The National Directorate for Drug Control and the Navy of the Dominican Republic carried out two operations on the coasts of the country that resulted in the arrest of eight people and

April 26, 2022

Venezuela

Sales in supermarkets grew by 6.6% in February

Sales in February registered an increase of 6.6% in relation to the same month last year (File photo: Victoria Gesualdi) Sales in supermarkets registered in February a 6.6% increase in relation to

April 26, 2022

Argentina

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