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What Lawyers Must Know to Be an Anti-Corruption Judge

The Judiciary approved the regulations for the Competition for anti-corruption and organized crime judges. Attorneys with irreproachable track record are required. The Council of the Judiciary approved the regulations for the Competition

January 6, 2022

Ecuador

Government resists taking measures to mitigate the impact of omicron

Las autoridades sanitarias siguen evaluando las opciones para hacer frente al avance de la variante ómicron en el país. Admiten que habrá una duplicación de casos positivos, sin embargo hasta el momento

January 6, 2022

Paraguay

Madre de Dios reports first case of influenza H3n2: disease has symptoms similar to COVID-19

The director of the Diresa de Madre de Dios, Ricardo Tello, reported this Wednesday that, of a total of 15 samples sent to the National Institute of Health (INS) for diagnosis, confirmation

January 6, 2022

Peru

The MSP lowered the number of days of isolation due to covid-19

The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) reduced the number of days of isolation due to covid-19 and changed testing criteria. In this way, differences are established according to the level of immunization

January 6, 2022

Uruguay

Alex Saab hearing was postponed due to pandemic

The court hearing prior to the trial of the Colombian businessman Alex Saab, alleged front man of the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, scheduled for January 7 in Miami, postponed to February 16

January 6, 2022

Venezuela

From Mendiguren: "The opposition set the house on fire, left and now, cut the hose “

The head of the Foreign Trade and Investment Bank stated that “we are facing a specific event with responsibilities for each of the actors; the one who contracted it and the one

January 6, 2022

Argentina

They criticize ombudsman for raising “conscientious objection” to those who reject vaccines

Digital Seven Page The ombudsman, Nadia Cruz, affirmed that she does not agree with the requirements of Supreme Decree 4641 and that the Government was asked that unvaccinated people declare “conscientious objection”

January 6, 2022

Bolivia

Government of Minas opens public consultation on highway concession

President vetoes project that suspends the validity period of tenders

President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed Bill 1,676/2020, which provides for an adjustment in the period of suspension of the expiration date of federal public tenders due to the covid-19 pandemic. According to the

January 6, 2022

Brasil

Ximena Rincón asks the Government to listen to the president-elect Gabriel Boric on the lithium tender

In the framework of the various requests to suspend the controversial Chilean lithium tender, the president of the Senate, Ximena Rincón, was open to the government listening to the President-elect and his

January 6, 2022

Chile

Inflation in 2021 closed at 5.62%

The Dane announced this Wednesday, January 5, the results of the Consumer Price Index for December and the total for the year 2021, which stood at 0.73% in the reference month and

January 6, 2022

Colombia

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