In mid-October, the Nicolás Maduro regime set the new minimum wage at 150,000 bolivars per month, which does not include the bonus for food that doesn’t affect the salary, and which amounts to roughly $8, according to parallel market exchange rates in Venezuela. Venezuela has been suffering from hyperinflation for [ … ]
Nicaragua ranked 109th among 141 countries in the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranking in its Global Competitiveness Index for 2019. [caption id="attachment_29814" align="alignright" width="300"] Juan Carlos Baca, a homeless man who lives in the streets of the Larga Espada neighborhood in Managua, reads a newspaper on March 26, 2019. (Photo: [ … ]
On July 29, 2019, the Cuban government authorized the use of private data networks to establish remote internet connections. The new regulations, however, contain a series of restrictions that violate international norms and prohibit the participation of basic components that managed to connect entire municipalities. “It’s unbelievable that a country [ … ]
The United States and 15 other members of the Rio Treaty passed a resolution September 23 in New York that paves the way for collective action against the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela. The treaty, formally known as the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR, in Spanish), has been in [ … ]
Bolivia launched the BOL-110 Integrated System for Citizen Security in August 2019. Six hundred facial recognition cameras were added to the more than 2,000 surveillance units already installed in the streets, in addition to patrols, and drones. Bolivian authorities will also use high-tech communications equipment to counter crime and obtain [ … ]
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