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La economía del país se ha paralizado tras la toma del poder militar en febrero de 2021 y los posteriores combates entre la junta y los rebeldes anti-golpe. El área de tierra utilizada para el cultivo de opio se expandió en un tercio a poco más de 40,000 hectáreas en 2021 y 2022.

La Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Drogas y el Delito (UNODC) calcula que la economía del opio en Myanmar representa unos 2.000 millones de dólares, el equivalente al 3% del PIB del país en 2021. Sin embargo, los mayores ingresos procedentes del opio no se están traduciendo en un mayor poder adquisitivo para los agricultores, debido a la subida de los precios de la gasolina y los fertilizantes.

Benedikt Hofmann, director de la UNODC en Myanmar, afirmó: "El cultivo de opio es en realidad una cuestión económica, y no puede resolverse destruyendo los cultivos, lo que sólo aumenta la vulnerabilidad".

opened last Tuesday, January 24, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at a time when the main countries of the region are governed by political projects with a social, democratic and sovereignist sense.

The political climate is particularly conducive to strengthening Celac itself, a forum that was deliberately weakened in previous years and yet is of crucial importance for the development and integration of Latin America.

The main tasks of the representatives gathered in Buenos Aires are mainly to reactivate regional cooperation, organizations and integration processes, so that the subcontinent can have instruments to counterbalance the influence of the Organization of American States, which is clearly subordinated to U.S. directives.

El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, despidió a una gran cantidad de altos funcionarios en medio de un creciente escándalo de corrupción relacionado con la adquisición de suministros para la guerra, en la mayor reorganización de su Gobierno desde que comenzó la invasión de Rusia.

La Oficina Nacional Anticorrupción también dijo que estaba investigando "informes de medios de alto perfil" sobre las acusaciones de que el Ministerio de Defensa de Ucrania estaba comprando suministros militares, incluidos alimentos para las tropas, a precios inflados.

Según un informe de 2021 de Transparencia Internacional, Ucrania es el segundo país más corrupto de Europa después de Rusia. A nivel mundial, ocupó el puesto 122 de 180 países. La promesa de Zelensky de librar al Gobierno de la corrupción fue una de las razones detrás de su rápido ascenso al poder en 2019.

As humanitarian needs continue to increase worldwide, the EU remains committed to supporting those in need by adopting its initial annual humanitarian budget of €1.7 billion by 2023.

237 million in humanitarian aid will help the most vulnerable populations in Asia and Latin America. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the EU will continue to support the impact of the crisis in Venezuela, the humanitarian consequences of the armed conflicts in Colombia, as well as the widespread violence in Haiti, and Central America and Mexico.

In 2021, the European Commission has published a Communication proposing to reinforce the European Union's overall humanitarian impact in order to address the substantially increased humanitarian needs exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

According to the Inter-American Development Bank, Latin America is an easy target for cyber-attacks because the region has no cyber infrastructure to resist or prevent them. It is in this context that some 20 Indian information technology (IT) companies employ more than 40,000 people in Latin America. These companies are driving the digitization of the region, using machine learning and artificial intelligence to take the region to Industry 4.0.

India's brand in Latin America is through 'sophisticated' investments in the services and manufacturing sector, stimulating value-added sectors (a contrast to China's investments in raw materials). One Indian auto parts company alone, the Samvardhana Motherson Group, has 27 manufacturing plants in Latin America employing 25,000 people. The bottom line? Indian investment creates far more jobs on average.

The India-Brazil relationship is probably the most important in the India-Latin America branch of relations, and the foreign minister's visit consolidated the various interests in bilateral ties, including the expansion of the India-Mercosur partial scope agreement. In Paraguay, the foreign minister inaugurated the new Indian embassy in Asuncion - India's fifteenth embassy in Latin America and the Caribbean.