Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy — Global Issues

Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy — Global Issues

President Jair Bolsonaro launched the sale of shares of Eletrobras, the largest company in the electricity sector in Brazil, which will be privatized through its capitalization. The State will remain as a minority partner, in a privatization process approved by Congress, conditional on the construction of gas thermoelectric power plants…

War in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend — Global Issues

War in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend — Global Issues

View of the United Nations General Assembly, which on three occasions this year has censured the invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine and where many countries have expressed non-alignment with the positions taken by the contenders. CREDIT: Manuel Elias/UN by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Monday, June 20, 2022 Inter Press Service CARACAS,…

Bilingual Intercultural Education, an Endangered Indigenous Right in Peru — Global Issues

Bilingual Intercultural Education, an Endangered Indigenous Right in Peru — Global Issues

Children in an intercultural bilingual education primary school classroom in the district of Chinchaypujio, Anta province, in the southern Andean department of Cuzco, Peru. Each of these classrooms has between 10 and 13 students in different grades, at the kindergarten, primary and secondary levels. CREDIT: Courtesy of Tarea by Mariela…

Southern Winds in Magallanes Fuel Green Hydrogen in Chile — Global Issues

Southern Winds in Magallanes Fuel Green Hydrogen in Chile — Global Issues

At the Haru Oni demonstration plant where the ecological fuel based on green hydrogen will be produced, the wind turbine that will provide wind energy to the project promoted by the HIF Global group in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes has been installed. CREDIT: HIF Global by Orlando Milesi (santiago)…

Cities in Brazil Reap Floods after Hiding Their Rivers Underground — Global Issues

Cities in Brazil Reap Floods after Hiding Their Rivers Underground — Global Issues

The confluence of the waters with the distinct colors of the pollution of each one: darker waters reflect the urban sewage of the Arrudas River, while brown reflects erosion coming from the upper Velhas River, a natural effect or product of mining visible in the city of Belo Horizonte, in…

Poor Families Clash over Water with Real Estate Consortium in El Salvador — Global Issues

Poor Families Clash over Water with Real Estate Consortium in El Salvador — Global Issues

Alex Leiva, holding his baby girl, uses the water he managed to collect in barrels at 4:00 a.m., the only time the service is provided in Lotificación Praderas, in the canton of Cabañas, on the outskirts of the municipality of Apopa, north of the Salvadoran capital. The families of this…