America Bolivia The government has guaranteed that - due to its pipeline restructuring efforts - this upcoming year 75% of the country will finally have access to drinking water for households use and for animals, affected by ongoing droughts
America Colombia As the demand for flights has had a sharp increase in the past year, the government announced that it will nearly triple the taxes applied to flight tickets, causing great distress among local airlines as some haven’t still recovered from the 2020 crisis
America Ecuador The country has signed an agreement with Colombia to neutralise the drug trafficking groups’ confrontations that take place in their shared border, which includes merging their soldiers and deploying almost 4.000 of them into the area
America Honduras Foreign investments have grown by approximately 65% in the past trimester; as they have been mainly towards the tourism sector, the government has decided to reconsider its efforts towards tourism for the upcoming year
America Nicaragua The state held a ceremony to commemorate the 20.000 victims of the Managua Earthquake of 1972 by holding a nation-wide earthquake drill in which approximately 600.000 people took part
America El Salvador The government has deployed 10.000 troops to the gang-controlled areas of the country, planning to surround all of the areas and extract the members one by one to place them in the country’s newest, dedicated prison
America Guatemala As the country’s landfills are spilling into its rivers and going towards Honduras’ lands, the government is working on installing modern systems that are designed to catch plastic and mesh along the country’s rivers without affecting its ecosystem
America Saint Lucia The country will soon launch web and mobile application Skill 758, a new web-based initiative to address youth unemployment
America Venezuela At the beginning of 2022 the country established new policies favouring rice plantations with the goal that all rice in the future would have to be local and not imported, as a result, this year’s rice production went up by 112%
America United States The storm that swept across the US over the holiday weekend has killed at least 60 people in eight states: an arctic air blanket covered a number of States in one of the coldest Decembers in decades, paralyzing air and ground circulation and cutting power
America Grenada A contribution of $33.000 to the Grenada Planned Parenthood Association to support sexual and reproductive health rights clinics in Grenada has been announced by the High Commission of Canada
America Brazil The World Bank has approved a US$500 million sustainability-linked loan, meaning that the country in order to pay back the loan, will have to meet climate-friendly criteria, such as planting forests or decreasing carbon emissions