LIMA, Jan 14 (Jan 14 (NNN-ANDINA) — The Executive Branch has approved declaring 2023 the “Year of Unity, Peace, and Development.” Published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on Friday, Supreme Decree 004-2023-PCM establishes that the approved phrase must be recorded in official documents during the current year. The corresponding decree…

BRASILIA, Jan 14 (NNN-XINHUA) — Brazilian grain production will reach 310.9 million tons in the 2022-2023 cycle, a growth of 14.5 percent compared to the previous period, according to the estimate released by the state-run National Supply Company (CONAB). CONAB expects the production of soybeans, Brazil’s main export, which is…

CUSCO (Peru), Jan 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Rail and air links to Peru’s famed Machu Picchu site had been cut early Friday after a flare-up in weeks-long protests that has killed dozens. The airport in Cusco, gateway to Peru’s tourism crown jewel, was closed as protests kicked off in the city,…

SANTO DOMINGO, Jan 13 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Dominican Republic closed 2022 with 8,476,651 visitors, a record number for this nation, Tourism Minister David Collado reported.     At a Thursday press conference led by the president, Luis Abinader, the head of state stressed that the aforementioned figure is the total of…

MONTEVIDEO, Jan 13 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Uruguayan government is considering the extension of agricultural emergency due to the persistent drought that today begins to affect crops and milk production.     The drought affecting the whole country is considered critical and the weather outlook is not good. Meanwhile, there are producers…

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 13 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Latin American Federation of Journalists (Felap) and the Union of Press Workers of Buenos Aires (Utpba), Argentina, condemned the coup attempt perpetrated in Brazil last Sunday.     Thousands of followers of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and destroyed the headquarters of the National…

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — More than 150 groups defending civil rights in the United States asked the administration of President Joe Biden to close the military prison located in illegally occupied territory in Guantánamo, Cuba.     Twenty-one years after President George W. Bush (2001-2009) opened the prison, and 13…

LOS ANGELES, Jan 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Western US states were bracing for yet more torrid weather Friday and into the weekend as so-called atmospheric rivers lined up to dump heavy rain and snow across the already soaked region. California has been battered by weeks of downpours that have killed at least…