The National Bank of Investment (BNF) in Paraguay has transferred 68,000 hectares to The National Institute of Rural and Land Development (Indert), a group that is responsible for the integration of the rural population in the economic and social development of the country.

Argentina’s recently appointed Minister of Housing and Land Development, María Eugenia Bielsa, spoke on the problems she inherited from the previous government, including 11,000 finished units of public housing that were left unoccupied for four years and a system of mortgage loans fraught by the past year’s inflationary crisis.

In La Paz, the municipal government notified 56 landowners in Playa Kokeni that their property will be demolished. There is a similar case in neighboring town El Playón Jillusaya, where 30 people have land ownership problems.

In a decade, the island’s population of over-60s will reach 1.5 million, prompting concerns over whether the country’s health services have the capacity to cope with a more dependent population.

A traffic police officer of Muni de Mixco has been fired for being transgender.

The ratio of farmland to farmers has diminished to the point that one percent of farmers is on 36 percent of the land while 55 percent of farmers are on two percent of land.

After more than a month of protests in cities like Cali and Medellín, the government decided to start negotiations with students and young people.

Around 1pm on Saturday, January 11, the city of Las Tablas in the providence of Los Santos was colorfully dressed for the Parade of the Thousand Polleras, a tradition in the area of Azuero.

Formal employment in Mexico fell to a historic low during the last months of 2019.

In the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo, some 40-odd informal workers sort through trash piles for products that they can transport across the city on foot and re-sell to make a living.