President Rousseff’s ruling PT party has been accused of receiving millions in the Petrobras graft scandal. But some commentators say the company’s troubles have been engineered by forces that do not want to see healthy state-run enterprises. 

According to information from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the United States was the main destination for fresh Colombian flowers between January and November 2014, with exports reaching US $975.5 million, in value, growing by $21 million over the same period of 2013. 

The level of “informality” rises during Carnival. 

In Venezuela increasing fuel prices is “almost a taboo,” especially after a 1989 fuel price increase was one of the triggers of the “Caracazo,” as the “bloody social explosion” was known. 

Peru asked Argentine energy company Pluspetrol to leave a restive Amazonian town in a natural gas block to calm tensions after protests against the company this week left one dead and dozens injured.