Dealmaking with China amid global economic uncertainty: Opportunities, risks, and recommendations for Latin America and the Caribbean In-Depth Research & Reports by Sergio Ley López and Salvador Suárez Zaizar
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic is exerting extraordinary pressure on Latin American and Caribbean economies with reverberations that will be felt for years to come. October estimates point to a 8.1 percent contraction of regional GDP this year, accompanied by a 23 percent reduction in exports. Between January and May, Latin American and Caribbean exports to most destination markets saw sharp decreases, including to the United States (-22.2 percent) and the European Union (EU) (-14.3 percent). However, China the first major economy to recover from the pandemic appeared to be an exception (-1.2 percent). As Latin America looks to rebuild from the pandemic, the trajectory of its b
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Fossilized lightning bolts reveal when ancient storms struck
Dec. 16, 2020 , 12:10 PM
When a lightning bolt strikes a mountaintop, it can melt rocks in a flash, leaving a narrow glassy scar called a fulgurite. Now, researchers have shown that these fossilized thunderbolts are geological clocks that record the passage of time. The technique offers geologists a way to date thunderstorms from tens of thousands of years ago, and could give them a window into ancient climate patterns.
“It’s a very interesting and ingenious method,” says Rafael Navarro González, a chemist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University City, who was not involved in the study.
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With image rights protected mainly by the Federal Copyright Law, the overlap between an individual’s right to control use of their image and the automatic copyright established on behalf of an author can lead to courtroom conflicts.
Image and publicity rights are designed to protect the images of ordinary people and those in the public eye. The term ‘image’ comes from the latin
imagines, meaning figure, representation, similarity and appearance of a thing. What is more, Elvia Lucia Flores Ávalos points out in
Right to the image and civil responsibility that ‘personal image’ refers to an individual’s physical appearance, which can be captured in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography or video. On that basis, an image right is a right through which a person’s image is protected in order to prevent third parties from capturing or disseminating it without
UNES presidential candidate Andrés Arauz.
The establishment are trying every trick to exclude leading opposition ticket Union for Hope (UNES) from the presidential election.
Ecuador’s Electoral Disputes Tribunal (TCE) denied the UNES ticket final certification on November 29. The TCE ordered the National Electoral Council (CNE) to review charges against UNES presidential candidate Andrés Arauz and vice-presidential candidate Carlos Rabascall and possibly exclude them from the election.
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Arauz has consistently polled as one of the two candidates likely to win the February 7 election, or to be in the runoff in April.
UNES is the most popular left/progressive electoral alliance in the country, and is allied with former president Rafael Correa.