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Revenue opens consultation on Income Tax residual batch

Revenue denies tax increase for teachers with new floor

On Thursday night (22), the Federal Revenue responded to false information circulating on social media about an alleged increase in taxes on teachers due to the adjustment of the teaching salary minimum.

January 22, 2026

Brasil

Vacation in Chile: how much does it cost to eat in Viña del Mar

With the start of the 2026 summer season, thousands of tourists are preparing to enjoy their vacation and they find themselves with a reality of prices that forces them to take out

January 22, 2026

Chile

Huancayo: power outage this Friday due to preventive maintenance in Chilca

Electrocentro announced a scheduled interruption of the electrical service in various sectors of the Chilca district, this Friday, January 23, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., due to preventive maintenance work on

January 22, 2026

Peru

Membership in the Financial Negotiation Task Force runs until Saturday

Small businesses have until the 30th to renegotiate debts with the Union

Individual microentrepreneurs (MEI), microenterprises and small businesses have until January 30th to adhere to the special conditions for renegotiating debts registered in the Union’s active debt. Last year, the Attorney General’s Office

January 22, 2026

Brasil

STAPP: Petroperú Management specified that there is no provision to send pre-dismissal letters

Everything suggests that the emergency decree to restructure Petroperu (DU Nº 010-2025) and everything that Premier Ernesto Álvarez and the Minister of Economy, Denisse Miralles, have stated so far to reverse the

January 22, 2026

Peru

Venezuela appreciates the position of the African bloc in defense of international law

The Chancellor of the Republic, Yván Gil, held a telephone conversation this Thursday with the president of the African Union (AU) Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, whom he thanked on behalf of the

January 22, 2026

Venezuela

Peace plan in Gaza is topic of phone call between Lula and Mahmoud Abbas

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke by telephone, this Thursday (22), with the president of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP), Mahmoud Abbas. The information was released by Palácio do Planalto. In

January 22, 2026

Brasil

Two new femicides in Cuba: a woman dismembered in Pinar del Río and another murdered by her partner in Granma

Havana/Yaniuska Machado, murdered in the Las Mercedes neighborhood of the Bartolomé Masó municipality of Granma, is the most recent case of feminicide recorded in Cuba. The information indicates that the crime was

January 22, 2026

Ecuador

Mario Vizcarra: JNE reinterpreted the law to allow his application

The resolution of the Plenary Session of the National Election Jury (JNE) that allowed Mario Vizcarra to continue as a presidential candidate for Peru Primero in the general elections on April 12

January 22, 2026

Peru

Countries in the region have already increased the minimum wage by 2025, except Venezuela

Red Sindical proposes “urgent” changes in salary policy and eliminate Plataforma Patria

The NGO condemned the criminalization of union activity and demanded the freedom of all people imprisoned for defending workers’ rights. The Venezuelan Trade Union Network requested the “urgent correction” of the salary

January 22, 2026

Venezuela

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