This Thursday, President Nicolás Maduro expressed on the national network the importance of stimulating the financial engine in the country, and with it the need to digitize the economy in the Caribbean country, in order to strengthen the national currency and attract foreign currency.
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China to launch its first space mission in 2022
China will launch its first dedicated heliophysical mission in mid-2022: the Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory (ASO-S).
The satellite will operate in a synchronous orbit with the sun 720 kilometers above Earth to keep a close watch on…
Economic digitization would not be viable in Venezuela
According to economist Edgar Urbaez, the ambition of digitizing the Venezuelan economy is "fanciful", for various reasons, including Internet connectivity that turns out to be the slowest in the world and at a time when banking is reduced…
Mercado Libre founder qualifies bitcoin as the best store of value
Marcos Galperin, founder of the electronic commerce company Mercado Libre, assures that bitcoin has turned out to be the "better store of value than gold". This was announced by the Argentine billionaire after a query made by Twitter users…
ECB rates bitcoin as a speculative asset
In an online event, the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, reported that bitcoin has a high level of speculation and needs to be regulated.
At the Reuters Next conference, Lagarde reported that the popular…
Maduro ratified the go-ahead and defended the use of accounts in convertible currencies
The Venezuelan ruler, Nicolás Maduro, announced during the presentation of his Report and Account before the new Parliament on Tuesday, January 12, that the opening of accounts in convertible currencies, at all levels, will be allowed so…
Inflation in Brazil in 2020 was 4.52%
The Brazilian Consumer Price Index (IPCA) closed 2020 with a level of 4.52%, which is the highest accumulated figure since 2016, after an increase of 0.21 percentage points compared to the previous year, according to data published this…
Blockchain technology will be used in Colombia
The Ministry of Transport of Colombia has announced the possibility of implementing the use of new technologies to collect, store, process and distribute information in order to seek an improvement in transport operations, management and…
Pence and other members of the cabinet would be denied to the impeachment of Trump
Pence has not publicly referred to the idea of resorting to a mechanism never used in the history of the United States, although the newspaper quotes a person close to the vice president who confirmed his refusal.
Trump's impeachment…
Government of Ecuador intends to emancipate the Central Bank before his departure
This Tuesday, the Government of Ecuador reported to the local media its decision to prepare a Monetary and Financial Code that seeks the autonomy of the Central Bank, it must be approved by the National Assembly before the term of the…
Trump admits end of term and calls for orderly transition
This Thursday, January 7, the outgoing US president, Donald Trump, accepted that his government will be a single term and promised an "orderly transition", after Congress ratified the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden.…
Paraguay corrects the Washington Post on alleged oil negotiation with Guaidó
The Paraguayan government denied having reached an agreement with the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on an outstanding debt of 290 million dollars, contracted for the purchase of oil in 2004, in response to an article by the…