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Inflation: food prices rose to 12.5% in August

A few days after the INDEC (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses) publishes the official data with the inflation August, it was known that, during this month, food prices climbed up to

September 5, 2022

Argentina

Sofia Manzano presents proposals for the environment

Vera proposes actions against deforestation, land grabbing and illegal mining

On the day of the Amazon, celebrated today (5), the PSTU candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Vera Lucia Pereira, presented, as proposals, the end of deforestation, land grabbing and illegal

September 5, 2022

Brasil

Colombia already has a new ICT Ministry: Sandra Urrutia took office

The lawyer Sandra Milena Urrutia was sworn in by the president Gustavo Petro as the new Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia. (See: Petro, among the most popular presidents in

September 5, 2022

Colombia

Ricardo Arjona enjoys Machu Picchu before concerts in Arequipa and Lima

Édgar Ricardo Arjona Morales, known simply as Ricardo Arjona, arrived in Peru in the middle of his “Black and White” international tour, and immediately moved to Cusco, where he enjoys the main

September 5, 2022

Peru

They sent to prison the men who scaled a building in Punta del Este to steal

A 45 year old man led in Punta del Este the robbery of an apartment in the building golden-gatelocated on stop 8. He was sent to prison by the Justice in the

September 5, 2022

Uruguay

Ferroven workers demand answers from the parent company to reactivate production

Faced with the proposal to form a mixed commission together with CVG and Corpoelec officials, Ferroven workers say they are willing to travel and go to other instances in order to obtain

September 5, 2022

Venezuela

Millionaire fine to Instagram for security flaws with minors’ accounts

(Photo: 123 RF). The social network Instagram, a subsidiary of the Meta group, was sanctioned to pay the record sum of 405 million euros for failures in the treatment of personal data

September 5, 2022

Argentina

Social Security starts 2022 with zero queue challenge

Provisional measure makes medical expertise of the INSS more flexible

President Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned Provisional Measure (MP) 1,113/2022 with vetoes, which amends the rules for analyzing and granting benefits of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). The information was released this

September 5, 2022

Brasil

“Unprecedented participation” and “good georeferencing”: Servel takes stock of the plebiscite

The President of the Board of Directors of the Electoral Service (Servel), Andres Tagle, made a balance on the plebiscite of September 4, in which Rejection triumphed over Approval. Among the things

September 5, 2022

Chile

Strengthen measures to guarantee police safety in southern Tolima

In municipalities in the south of the department of Tolimain which the presence of residual organized armed groups has been identified, the Tolima Police has adopted a series of measures in order

September 5, 2022

Colombia

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