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Brazilian government authorizes green modernization of state postal company

The Brazilian government has authorized state-owned Correios, Latin America’s largest postal company, to raise 3.8 billion reais (about 760 million dollars) to modernize its technological infrastructure and implement the ecological transition of its 23,000-vehicle fleet, the government portal Agencia Gov.…

Argentina: destabilization from within

A serious error in coordination and in the political relationship that unites them has led the Argentine president, Javier Milei, and his vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, to what seems to be the beginning of a new stage in an ultra-right government…

Armengol Engonga: “We have high hopes for the possibility of a democratic transition in Equatorial Guinea.

We spoke to Armengol Engonga Ondo, president of the Progressive Party of Equatorial Guinea (PP) since the resignation of its founder, Severo Moto, in 2020. The PP was born in 1983, “the first Equatoguinean party because at that time there…

China declares itself a force for peace in a turbulent international environment

Five years after the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), Latin America and the Caribbean became the first nuclear-weapon-free zone, committing the nuclear powers to non-aggression and non-nuclear threats in the region and promoting global denuclearization. Yes, many countries have signed the…

Gaza / Israel: International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear Nicaragua’s case against Germany

“We fear that this already catastrophic situation, as many Palestinians celebrate the holy month of Ramadan – a period that should honor peace and tolerance – will slide deeper into the abyss if Israel launches its threatened military offensive on…

March 21: 1st Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels

Safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for all The international nuclear lobby, at the invitation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Prime Minister of Belgium, will hold a nuclear energy summit in Brussels (WAM) on 21 March 2024. The…

Beijing celebrates traditional Russian holiday Maslenitsa in style

“People from many countries came together without prejudice and just enjoyed the spirit of the folk festival,” one of the visitors said. The Russian capital is currently hosting the traditional Russian holiday “Maslenitsa”, an activity that is part of the…

Argentina: Social peace (what little was left) at high risk

The sad events that took the lives of a taxi driver and a bus driver in the city of Rosario are well-known throughout the country. These events are being investigated by the courts, while the government, in a show of…

Diana Reappears: A new neighborhood memorial

By Maxine Lowy* Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart’s secret places.  Hannah Szenes, 1944 On a southern hemisphere spring afternoon in 1974, on November 18 to be exact, a…

Sofia Orr, young Israeli conscientious objector: “My generation wasn’t born to kill or get killed”

Sofia Orr was sentenced yesterday to a second 20 days term in military prison for refusing to enlist in the Israeli army. Here is a letter she wrote about the shooting of Palestinians trying to get food. In a recent…

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