The Economic Climate Index (ICE), developed in partnership between the German Ifo Institute and the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), shows an improvement in activity in Latin America, but a worsening in Brazil in July, compared to April.

Space technology is increasingly being used in everyday life to analyze the real-time impact of climate change and deforestation, or to do things like improve electoral processes, but the region is still behind the global curve due to economic setbacks. 

Peruvian exporters think state institutions have failed to take timely action to mitigate the effects of El Niño.

One of the great unknowns after the standardization process is the hypothetical reintegration of the country in international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. 

For the president of the Union of Exporters of Uruguay (UEU), Álvaro Queijo, the country is experiencing the worst-case scenario in terms of exports since the economic crisis of 2002.

Banks are forecasting two years of economic contraction for Brazil and decreased economic growth of 0.5% instead of the previously predicted 1% in Latin America and the Caribbean, estimated the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

A United Nations committee, after six months work, unanimously adopted a “historic” report that establishes nine principles for restructuring sovereign debt. 

Carlos Gustavo Cano, Co-director of the Bank of the Republic, notes how curious it may be for many people that “a central banker is concerned about climate change.”

Fishermen and farmers from around the country gathered to receive the first consultative workshop of the Plan for Sustainable Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture of El Salvador.

Best prices, global warming and “milking” the industry affect livestock, but farmer associations rule out that money laundering is related to the smuggling of cattle in the country.