“Solar energy makes my happiness complete,” said Divina Cardoso dos Santos, owner of one of 740 houses with photovoltaic panels on the rooftops in a settlement on the outskirts of this central Brazilian city that began to house poor families in 2016. It is a social housing project of the Housing Agency (AGEHAB) of the state of Goiás.
Read MoreThirteen American countries said Friday they will not recognize the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro’s new term in Venezuela. They said they would re-evaluate their diplomatic relations with Caracas and consider sanctions including preventing senior Venezuelan officials from entering their territory and some Venezuelans from acceding their banking systems.
Read More“I dream of a healthy, sustainable, well-managed forest,” says Rogelio Ruiz, a silviculturist from southern Mexico. Forest habitats are precisely one of the best natural mechanisms for mitigating climatic change, but at the same time they face the consequences, such as rising temperatures, variations in rainfall regimes and the spread of pests.
Read MoreBrazil’s new government will privatize 12 airports and four ports, a move which will help it earn 7 billion reals (1.85 billion dollars), President Jair Bolsonaro says. “We will soon attract initial investments of around $7 billion reals, with rail concessions, 12 airports and 4 port terminals,” Bolsonaro tweeted on Thursday.
Read MoreAs he milks his cow, Salvadoran Gilberto Gomez laments that poor harvests, due to excessive rain or drought, practically forced his three children to leave the country and undertake the risky journey, as undocumented migrants, to the United States. Gomez, 67, lives in La Colmena, in the municipality of Candelaria de la Frontera, in the western Salvadoran department of Santa Ana.
Read MoreLife along the border has changed as it has become more militarized and the US’s history of racist rhetoric takes its toll on its southern neighbors. Even with today’s tension, tens of thousands of Mexicans still cross the border on a daily basis for school and work. Meanwhile tourism from the US to the Mexican side is scant.
Read MoreToday, just hours before 2018 comes to an end, somebody asked me: what do you want the most next year? And I replied: I wish for Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s government in Nicaragua to end immediately, for this is a government that has lost all credibility and has become a UNIVERSAL EMBARASSMENT.
Read MoreThe government that will take office on Jan. 1 in Brazil, presided over by Jair Bolsonaro, will put to the test the extreme right in power, with beliefs that sound anachronistic and a management based on a direct connection with the public. “People’s power no longer needs intermediation, new technologies allow a new direct relationship between voters and their representatives,” says Bolsonaro.
Read MoreAuthorities in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands banned on Friday the sale and use of fireworks in the archipelago to protect its unique ecosystem. The ban, which excludes pyrotechnic devices which produce light but no sound, was approved unanimously by the archipelago’s governing council, reported dpa news.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, December 19, groups of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica tried to deliver a statement to the Nicaraguan Embassies of their respective countries denouncing the harassment of media and journalists in the Central American country.
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