Following a year-long trend from 2015, tourism levels remained high for the month of January in Uruguay. La República of Montevideo reported that tourism in Uruguay is up. Uruguayans made 6,600,000 trips in 2015, spending $800 per person for travel on average. The first month of 2016 was good for tourism too, with Uruguayans continuing the positive trend in addition to an influx of 10,000 Argentinian tourists this past January. Tourism projection…

…ompares the amount of the remittances with the ten percent of Guatemala’s GDP, and with almost 50% of the income obtained from exports. Nevertheless, Sigfrido Lee, Vice Minister of Economy, says the government has succeeded in motivating migrant investment on projects that create self-employment. To support the latter stance, Lee points to the investments of a Garifunda migrant group that resides in New York. The money is invested in micro franchi…

…ensions by $600 million, and there is definitely some interest in what the company has to offer. In September the company also agreed to sell 1,200 million euros worth of its assets. These include two plants in Brazil, a combined cycle plant in Algeria, a hospital in Brazil, Ghana desalination plants, solar plants in South Africa, Abu Dhabi, Chile and Algeria, transmission lines in Peru, a water treatment plant in the United States, a cogeneration…

…egnant teenagers who attended the University School Hospital (HEU) in 2015 compared to 2014, according to the head of the gynecology outpatient medical center, Ana Raquel Gómez. The country ranks second in leading rate of births, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA): 108 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 years, only just under Nicaragua with 109. La Tribuna of Tegucigalpa published that in 2014, Materno Infantil attended to 2,500 births…

…n, as there was also a previous miscalculation that misplaced and cost the company money. Zamora blames the company for the lost funds and that is part of the reason that the Zamora’s Burger Kings haven’t paid their franchise fees since January 2014. There was also dissent within the partnership over the closure of six restaurants in 2013 that operated in the red with annual losses of $400,000. Zamora disagreed with the move because it would cost…

…ording to the data from the Ministry of Education, the country has close to 600,000 people who cannot read or write or who have low education. That means that by 2017 that figure would be reduced by two thirds. However, it noted that the data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) says there are nearly one million illiterate Hondurans. “One thing is an estimate and another thing is to know where people are that have problems of illiteracy…

…he Ministry of the Environment. Twenty years ago the Quispillaccta peasant community, located between 2.800 to 4.600 meters above sea level, began using community work to “breed” lakes and promote the practice of cultivating and harvesting rainwater. It was their response to the problem of water shortages in communities adjacent to the basins of the Pampas and Cachi-Mantaro rivers. “These shortages are caused by, among other factors, low water rec…

…their sleep. Between the aid money pledged by the banks, countries and cities of the world alike, Ecuador has a sum of more than 600 million dollars on the way….

…ent recently obtained a loan of one billion dollars from the Russian state company Gazprom. Economists predict that Maduro will devalue the bolívar, a move that would substantially reduce a deficit calculated by the Bank of America at 11.5 % of the GDP. A prolonged debt crisis also seems unlikely at a time when banks and Wall Street are eager to extend loans. Venezuela is apparently negotiating a credit line with Goldman Sachs, using its substanti…

…ats from organized crime, said a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR). El Faro Magazine of San Salvador covered a regional workshop in San Salvador that showed how 1,600 Salvadorans requested asylum in other nations in 2012, and 8,200 more obtained the status of refugee. “The numbers (of refugees and asylum seekers) have been growing since 2008 and every year here there has been a significant increase,” said…