Politics

In a debt-for-nature swap, a country's government bonds or loans are purchased and replaced with new ones that pay a lower interest rate, as long as the government commits to spending some of the money saved on conservation.

Beneficiaries of government incentives include funding for 60 state and local agencies and nonprofit organizations involved in programs to help residents in poor communities go solar and save on their electricity bills.

The mobilization, called 'March of the White Coats', expressed its rejection of health management, but also of the reform of the Constitution that the South American president wants to promote.

Noboa's government seemed in an early count to have won voter support for measures including joint police-military patrols, the extradition of wanted criminals and longer sentences for terrorism and murder, among other crimes.

The Legislative and Judicial bodies rejected President Gustavo Petro's measure and reported that they would work "normally."

The Argentine president, Javier Milei, who canceled his European tour after Iran's attack on Israel on Saturday, has opted to intensify defense policy.

Barring last-minute concessions from Maduro, the Biden administration has made it clear that it is unlikely to renew a six-month hiatus on sanctions granted to the OPEC member last October, following a deal between the Venezuelan government and the opposition around elections.

President Daniel Noboa called for the resignation of the Energy Minister and an investigation for sabotage.

Today he will be investigated for the crimes of fraud and illicit association.

President Lula's agenda in Colombia begins Wednesday morning when he will meet with President Petro at the Casa de Nariño. Bilateral agreements will be signed after the meeting.

For the second time since Javier Milei began his mandate, Argentine workers will protest against salary adjustments and labor reforms.

The Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, explained that the lawsuit will be submitted today and added that with it Mexico wants to test the international justice system so that situations like what happened in the Ecuadorian capital do not repeat.

The trip will take place after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Argentina, Brazil and Chile in January last year seeking to ensure the availability of critical minerals.

After being rejected at the beginning of the year, the government circulated a reduced and modified version of its extensive general reform bill to legislators and governors to advance it in the upper house.

According to Brazil's Energy Minister, Alexandre Silveira, the future of Jean Paul Prates, manager of the state oil company, depends on the president. The executive has been criticized by sectors of the Government that want him to lower fuel prices and increase job-generating investments.

The project, which could reduce the dependence of 90% of Brazilian agriculture on imported potash, has been paralyzed for years due to opposition from the Mura indigenous people, who claim to have not been consulted about the use of their ancestral lands.

The Minister of Transport of the Andean country denies that the resignation is linked to the controversial concession of Chancay port to Chinese consortium Cosco Shipping Ports.

The Peruvian president relieved the cabinet members of the Interior, Education, Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Production, Foreign Trade and Tourism, and Women and Vulnerable Populations sectors.

Dina Boluarte is being investigated for alleged illicit enrichment, as a result of the use of Rolex watches that she did not declare in her assets.

According to the organization, "corruption, impunity, poor governance" and "increasing levels of gang violence" have dragged the country "to the brink of collapse."