Tag: Americas
US posts 5.7% growth in 2021, strongest in 37 years
Despite a dark year in 2020 due to the pandemic, growth jumped 5.7% last year, according to figures released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. But galloping inflation and…
Who are the contenders for Justice Breyer’s succession to the Supreme Court?
Progressive Justice Stephen Breyer will leave his post on the Supreme Court in the United States by the summer. Her retirement offers President Joe Biden the opportunity to appoint a…
39 missing after boat sinks off Florida
The boat was suspected of transporting migrants according to the American authorities who denounce a ” human trafficking “. With our correspondent in Miami, David Thomson Of the 40 passengers,…
positive discrimination at university again in question
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two affirmative action cases at two of the country’s oldest and most prestigious universities. Once again, it therefore plans to reconsider its case…
beatification ceremony for four victims of the civil war
The beatification ceremony of four religious and lay people murdered in 1977 and 1980 during the cruel civil war took place this Saturday in El Salvador. Considered martyrs of the…
International meeting on the “future of Haiti” in Canada: its detractors denounce a new “sprinkling”
On Friday, January 21, Canada chaired an international meeting on Haiti attended by the Prime Minister of Haiti and representatives of 19 partner countries, the United Nations and other organizations…
Gabriel Boric unveils a majority female government
In Chile, the future left-wing president Gabriel Boric, soon to be 36, will take office on March 11. And this Friday morning, he unveiled his first government from a museum…
the death of Elza Soares, the black diva of Brazilian music at 91
The photos of Elza Soares occupy the front pages of all the Brazilian press: millennial voice “, for Folha de Sao Paulo, “ voice of resistance ” for Oh Dia,…
three police officers tried for their passivity in the murder of George Floyd
A white policeman has already been sentenced to 22 years in prison for asphyxiating African-American George Floyd. It is now the turn of three of his colleagues to be tried…
a maternity hospital must close in Haiti, an armed gang stole his electric generator
The maternity hospital in question is the Sainte-Croix hospital in Léogâne, a town located some 40 kilometers southwest of the Haitian capital. ” On Wednesday, a gang from the Martissant…