(Reuters) – Brazil’s government issued a decree backtracking on plans to weaken the definition of slave labor in response to criticism and a court suspension of the original edict, according to the official government gazette on Friday. The revised decree undid changes to the definition involving exhaustive working hours and degrading work conditions and also removed limitations on the publication… Read more »
My group played Budan in the simulation with group members Dane and Hadley. Nobody in the group had a specific role so we didn’t have group leader. We mostly just had one member who had experience with this sort of thing and was more than comfortable making statements about our country to the class. Although I didn’t talk that much… Read more »
Costa Rica has decided to use funds to build electric car ports so those that have the electric cars can use them more. CR is doing this in hopes of others then buying electric cars so the emission rate will go down. If this should happen, CR would be within the lines of the Paris Agreement, on which they signed…. Read more »
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Killings and violence against LGBT people in Central America are driving hundreds to flee their homes each year, but they have no safe sanctuary to run to, Amnesty International said on Monday. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are being forced to leave El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to escape “epidemic levels of violence” and… Read more »
SAN JOSE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – This greenest of Central American nations this month broke the world record for the most consecutive days running on renewable energy – 300. But there’s one area where Costa Rica is still struggling to meet its Paris Agreement commitment to cut emissions, experts say: the transport system. “We’ve kept a very clean electrical grid… Read more »
CARACAS (Reuters) – Even by the volatile and violent standards of recent times in Venezuela, 2017 was an exceptional year, a “perfect storm” of political and economic crisis. Going into a fourth year of crippling recession, Venezuela’s 30 million people found themselves skipping meals, suffering shortages of basic foods and medicines, jostling in lines for ever-scarcer subsidized goods, unable to… Read more »
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia’s palm oil industry and big businesses have pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains as the country battles to reverse the growing destruction of its tropical rainforests. The commitment signed this week makes Colombia the first country in the world to launch its own chapter of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, a global… Read more »
I personally am very happy for Colombia and their achievement of this bust. The drug problem in Colombia has been out of hand for the past few years. Colombia has the highest percentage of drug users in the world along with one of the highest percentages for having it in their countries and with dealers and users. This drug bust… Read more »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department will stop accepting new applications at midnight on Thursday for a program that allowed children fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to apply for refugee status in the United States before leaving home. New applications will not be accepted after 11:59 p.m. EST on Thursday (0459 GMT on Friday), the State… Read more »
Police seized more than 12 tons of cocaine from Colombia’s top crime gang on Wednesday, the biggest haul ever in the nation’s long-running fight against drug trafficking, President Juan Manuel Santos said] The cocaine, with a U.S. market value estimated by Santos at about of $360 million, was found stored underground on four farms in a banana-growing region of northwest… Read more »