(2024-01-12). BRICS Group Expands Membership, Signaling Geopolitical Shift. infobrics.org The BRICS group, an international alliance originally comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has expanded its membership, marking a significant shift in the geopolitical landscape…
(2024-01-12). World Bank forecasts Brazil's GDP growth in 2024. tvbrics.com 
According to the institution, Brazil's gross domestic product grew by more than 3 per cent in 2023…
(2024-01-12). Dorival Junior has become the head coach of the Brazilian national football team. tvbrics.com 
The 61-year-old coach is to improve Brazil's position in the South American zone in the World Cup qualifiers…
(2024-01-12). Lula proclaimed 2024 as the "National Year of Fernando Sabino" tvbrics.com 
Fernando Sabino is a famous Brazilian writer of the 20th century…
(2024-01-12). Chinese Foreign Minister to visit African countries and Brazil. tvbrics.com 
Wang Yi will visit Egypt, Tunisia, Togo and Ivory Coast…
(2024-01-12). International financial markets hail first year of Brazil's Lula government. wsws.org Workers in several sectors of the federal public administration are already responding to the Lula government's austerity policy with strikes and walkouts.
(2024-01-12). Israel's Goal Of Expelling Palestinians From Gaza Is Closer To Reality. popularresistance.org Once considered a fringe pipe dream, the once taboo idea of Israelis recolonizing portions of Gaza has been reinvigorated after Hamas' October 7 attack and the subsequent Israeli war on the embattled Palestinian territory, which has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians, internally displaced more than 1.9 million, and reduced the majority of the Strip into rubble. | Just as 2024 began, Israeli politicians renewed calls to recolonize Gaza, and recent remarks from Israeli lawmakers coupled with a new settler-colonist campaign suggest that Israeli annexation of the beleaguered Palestinian territory has been adopted a…
(2024-01-12). Ecuador In Crisis: A Country Broken By Neoliberalism. popularresistance.org People across the world were shocked to see a drug gang waving rifles and grenades in the TC Television studios in Guayaquil, and the scene was perhaps the cinematic peak of successive days of explosions, riots, lootings, shootings, car explosions, and widespread panic that has paralyzed the country. | However, the shocking and unprecedented episode on the public channel in Guayaquil—and the events that preceded and followed it—are just the latest chapter in a spiral of organized violence that has lasted for about five years and that has metastasized in the last two. It is the sad metamorphosis of a c…
(2024-01-12). Coca industrialization plant in Bolivia at an advanced stage. plenglish.com La Paz, Jan 12 (Prensa Latina) The industrialization plant of coca leafs and other medicinal plants hover around 80 percent of its construction in Sacaba, a municipality in Cochabamba, Antonio Quiroz, technical manager of the state-owned company Kokabol, said.
(2024-01-12). Sanctions, Leverage, and Venezuelan Sovereignty. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Vaz — Jan 3, 2024 | The US' economic coercive measures severely constrain Venezuela's ability to negotiate with foreign corporations, VA's Ricardo Vaz explains | On October 18, 2023, the Biden administration eased select The move sparked unrealistic expectations for…
(2024-01-12). 2023 Inflation Tops 211 Percent In Economic Crisis-torn Argentina. latintimes.com Argentina's annual inflation surged beyond 200 percent in 2023, the statistics agency said Thursday, as the country grapples with an economic crisis new President Javier Milei has vowed to address by slashing state spending.
(2024-01-12). Violence in Ecuador Is Result of Deliberate Dismantling of the State. orinocotribune.com
(2024-01-12). The new white gold? The promise of natural hydrogen in Colombia. pressenza.com 
In 1987, a well digging for water in Bourakébougou, a town north of Bamako, the capital of Mali, turned up a strange deposit. It was a dry well, but it emitted a gas. An unsuspecting worker peered into the borehole opening with a lit cigarette and an explosion burned his face and started a fire that raged for several days, journalist Eric Hand told Science magazine in February 2023. | By Andrés Díaz Páez | The well was closed and sealed with asphalt.: | It took 25 years for it to reopen. In 2012, the company Hydroma (formerly Petroma) decided to explore what the gas emitted from the well was composed of:…
(2024-01-12). Latin American governments condemn wave of violence in Ecuador. pressenza.com Latin American leaders, dismayed by the wave of violence by armed groups, express solidarity with President Daniel Noboa. | By Lizzette Vela | The convulsive situation in Ecuador has provoked a cascade of reactions globally. Latin American governments, dismayed by the wave of violence unleashed by armed groups, express solidarity with President Daniel Noboa. | You can also read: The country of Argentina stood out by…
(2024-01-12). Naciones del Consenso de Brasilia rechazan violencia en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El mecanismo de integración señaló que unirá esfuerzos para enfrentar coordinadamente la violencia regional.
(2024-01-12). Militares de EE.UU. se preparan para intervenir en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El portavoz del Departamento de Estado Matthew Miller resaltó en una conferencia de prensa que Ecuador sufre "niveles atroces de violencia y terrorismo a manos de elementos narcocriminales".
(2024-01-12). Representante Especial del Secretario General y Jefe de la Misión de Verificación de la ONU en Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, resaltoÃÅ los claros vínculos entre la implementación del Acuerdo Final de Paz. reliefweb.int Country: Colombia | Source: UN Verification Mission in Colombia | Representante Especial del Secretario General y Jefe de la Misión de Verificación de la ONU en Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, resaltoÃÅ los claros vínculos entre la implementación del Acuerdo Final de Paz y las iniciativas de diálogo con otros actores armados | Nueva York, 11 de enero de 2024. En la presentación del más reciente informe del Secretario General de la ONU sobre Colombia, que abarca el periodo entre el 27 de septiembre y el 26 de diciembre de 2023, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Representante Especial del Secretario General (SRSG…
(2024-01-12). Presidente venezolano destaca importancia de la unidad. telesurtv.net El mandatario aseveró que ellos han sellado un juramento que "los enemigos no han entendido ni podrán entender jamás".
(2024-01-12). Temporal deja sin electricidad a más de 125.000 usuarios en Paraguay. telesurtv.net Las afectaciones hicieron que en la capital, Asunción y en la región metropolitana se activara el protocolo de emergencia "Código Amarillo".
(2024-01-12). Incendio provocado deja dos fallecidos al noroeste de Ecuador. telesurtv.net Durante la noche de este miércoles hubo otros incidentes vinculados al clima de violencia y zozobra que enfrenta la nación suramericana.
(2024-01-12). AN de Venezuela pide investigar fondos de sector opositor para campañas. telesurtv.net Parlamento crea Comisión Especial para la investigación de las y los activistas políticos de oposición por delitos en contra de los bienes de Venezuela.
(2024-01-12). Experta insta a atender causas multifactoriales de violencia en Ecuador. telesurtv.net Entre las principales figuran el aumento del crimen trasnacional, el debilitamiento institucional y el abandono de políticas públicas y de prevención, en particular hacia los jóvenes.
(2024-01-12). Suben a 178 los penitenciarios retenidos en cárceles de Ecuador. telesurtv.net 158 de los retenidos son Agentes de Seguridad Penitenciarios (ASP) y los otros 20 son miembros de personal de servicio administrativo.
(2024-01-12). Inflación registra alza del 25,5% en diciembre de 2023 en Argentina. telesurtv.net El nivel general del Índice de precios al consumidor registró un alza mensual de 25,5 por ciento en diciembre y acumuló un incremento de 211,4 por ciento en los doce meses de 2023…
(2024-01-12). Ecuador: Salud en tiempos de guerra. indybay.org Ecuador: Salud en tiempos de guerra | ALAMES (AsociAción Latinoamericana de Medicina Social)…