Petrobras underwent a new change in leadership on Monday, June 20, increasing anxieties about unfavorable price policies in Brazil’s state-owned oil company.

Inflation in Argentina has increased steadily over the past year and appears to be out of the government’s control. Several worrying consequences of this are increased food insecurity and poverty.

Companies in the plastics, textiles, and food sectors have reported shortages.

At the opening of the 5th Brazil Investment Forum (BIF 2022), Brazilian Minister of the Economy Paulo Guedes repeated his defense of the privatization of state-owned companies and insisted that Brazil represented one of the best destinations for private investment.

Since June 9, 2021, when El Salvador approved a law to make Bitcoin legal tender, the government has purchased 2,301 Bitcoins, worth over 200 million USD.

Santo Domingo’s government gave RD$7 million to the La Ceiba Corn Producers Cooperative through the Special Fund for Agricultural Development (FEDA).

During the International Convention of the Association of Prospectors and Developers of Canada, Colombia’s National Mining Agency (NMA) officially launched a mining round to allocate new areas for gold production in Antioquia.

With rising prices and slowing economic growth, Honduras is in danger of falling victim to the combination of stagnation and inflation that the country experienced in the 1980’s.

Thirty years after the UN International Conference on the Environment and Development, global society continues to face serious challenges in combating environmental problems which require drastic and creative solutions.

On June 6, 2022, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released a publication titled Repercussions in Latin America and the Caribbean of the war in Ukraine: how should the region face this new crisis?