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A Job Found… and Something More

My integration as a butcher at Festval, one of the most prestigious supermarket chains in Curitiba, Brazil, was confusing.

Brazil is known more for exporting primary products such as iron ore, oil, coffee, and soybeans rather than value-added industrial goods.

“People are starting to have a realization that what they were promised isn’t going to come to fruition and they were lied to …”

Indi Rivero from Venezuela took our photo of the day: “The Ceiba Tree”, in Lara, Venezuela.

Today’s featured artist is Brazilian singer Chico Cesar with the song “Mama Africa” off his first album Cuscuz Cla (1996).

If before the wait for a Cuban to obtain permanent residency was four to five years, now it can be said to be highly uncertain.

Oil exploitation in the Amazon, will be a key issue at the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization Summit, scheduled for August 22 in Bogotá.

“Today’s ruling is a devastating setback, but it is not the end of this fight,” said an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.

Latin American community radio stations blame the cutbacks in international financial aid on the rise in authoritarianism…

Caracas’ reaction was immediate. President Maduro went on TV to announce the mobilization of 4.5 million militia across the country.