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Lack of data exacerbates child sexual violence in Latin America

The lack of disaggregated data on gender-based violence in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean has prevented the reality of sexual violence suffered by girls and adolescents in the region

January 15, 2022

Ecuador

17 governorates must explain how to use Covid funds

The Permanent Commission approved a request for a report so that the 17 governorates of the country render accounts on the use of emergency resources. This is about US$ 2 million that

January 15, 2022

Paraguay

Minem leaves the Salaverry case in the hands of the Comptroller

Yesterday, before the Energy and Mines Commission of Congress, the Minister of Energy and Mines (mine), Eduardo González Toro, could not clarify the criteria taken into account by his sector to designate

January 15, 2022

Peru

The suspicion about the gardener and the triathlon bike: robberies of summer houses put tourists in La Barra on alert

Norita (48) was lying down. It was after eight o’clock at night on January 11 and he felt bad. She was alone: her two daughters had gone out to buy cans of

January 15, 2022

Uruguay

Guzmán and Feletti met with IMF staff

Photo: Diego Levy. (Archive). The Minister of Economy, Martin Guzman, and the Secretary of Domestic Trade, Robert Felettiheld a meeting this Friday with the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after

January 15, 2022

Argentina

Re-VAT refund reached 67,000 beneficiaries

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January 15, 2022

Bolivia

Enacted law authorizing gas stations to buy ethanol from producers

States decide to end fuel ICMS freeze

By majority vote, the state governments decided to end the freeze on the Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) on fuel that had been in effect since November. The

January 15, 2022

Brasil

Almost 200 indigenous people displaced by fighting on the border with Venezuela

Some 200 Venezuelans, most of them indigenous Sikuani, arrived displaced in the municipality Puerto Carreño, in eastern Colombia, after fleeing fighting between dissidents from the extinct FARC guerrilla and ELN rebels, denounced

January 15, 2022

Colombia

Number of people infected with covid in the country reaches 593,664

Ecuador added 4,793 new COVID-19 infections this Friday and accumulated 593,664 historical positives in the pandemic, according to the latest epidemiological report released by the Ministry of Public Health. The death toll

January 15, 2022

Ecuador

Supposed perpetrator of kidnapping and double homicide falls in Yby Yaú

En la tarde de este viernes se produjo la detención del hombre sindicado como responsable del doble homicidio ocurrido a finales de diciembre en Yby Yaú. Además, se sospecha que la misma

January 15, 2022

Paraguay

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