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Ecuador
Perú se convertirá en uno de los diez principales proveedores de alimentos en el mundo
Nuestro país se perfila, gracias a la culminación de sus proyectos de irrigación, como una próxima potencia mundial en la producción de frutas y hortalizas, así lo confirmó el ministro de Agricultura y Riego (Minagri), Juan Manuel Benites. PUEDES VER: Amarakaeri: cabecera de cuenca del río Colorado está libre de minerales pesados Ante ...
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Paraguay
BCP suspende operaciones de aseguradora Imperio S.A.
La Superintendencia de Seguros del Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP) acaba de emitir la Resolución N.° 137/2016 por la cual se "retira la autorización para operar en el mercado asegurador paraguayo" a Imperio S.A. de seguros y reaseguros.
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Nicaragua
La UE busca promover con feria el intercambio comercial con Nicaragua
La Unión Europea (UE) inauguró hoy una feria en Nicaragua, con el fin de impulsar el Acuerdo de Asociación suscrito con Centroamérica y en vigor desde hace tres años y como parte del Día de Europa.
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USA
Snuffed out
Thank you for vaping THE interests of cigarette-makers and regulators rarely align. To date, most rules have been bad news for Big Tobacco. Change came on May 5th, when America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new requirements for electronic cigarettes. The vapour industry is small—less than 0.1% of the tobacco market—but ...
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Sudafrica USA
Snappy dressers
SOME 30,000 crocodiles bask at Izintaba, a farm sprawled across 100 acres near the South African city of Pretoria. Sold to tanners for bags, belts and watch straps, the best croc skins can fetch more than $600. The job requires long hours but is not particularly dangerous, says Pit Süssmann, ...
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USA
The eye of the storm
BOEING’S factory at Everett, near Seattle, is the largest building in the world, as befits the world’s biggest planemaker. From within its cavernous halls a new passenger jet emerges every working day. After an empty fuselage enters at one end of the factory, it can take as little as a ...
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Qatar Egitto India
Going great guns
BIG European defence firms had cause for gloom not long ago. Austerity limited military spending on the continent, and no obvious external threat justified raising it. Terrorism deserved most attention. Officials in NATO countries promised to devote 2% of GDP to defence, but Europeans generally fell well short, with Germany ...
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Egitto
Mamluks and maliks
Best of friends IN HIS CAIRO office overlooking the Nile, a businessman keeps his mobile phone in a glass jar on his desk. Elsewhere in the city a writer keeps hers in the fridge. If smartphones were once the tools of young revolutionaries across the Arab world, the fear is that ...
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Egitto
Which Islam?
The Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in Egypt in 1928 during the struggle against British rule, the Brotherhood is a broad-based Sunni movement with branches in many countries. It seeks to transform society through da’awa (proselytising) and by winning power through elections. Although a Brotherhood government was toppled in Egypt in 2013, ...
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Russia Turchia Armenia
Unintended consequences
THE MODERN FRONTIERS of the Arab world only vaguely resemble the blue and red grease-pencil lines secretly drawn on a map of the Levant in May 1916, at the height of the first world war. Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot were appointed by the British and French governments respectively ...