Notas sobre América Latina

Título: EU increases humanitarian aid funding to 1.7 billion euros by 2023
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Autor:
Centro de Documentación Europea de Almería

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.
 

Palabras clave:
Unión europea, ayuda humanitaria, crisis humanitaria, américa latina, Asia
Título: Latin America and Asia's other giant: India
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Autor:
Los Angeles Times

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.

Palabras clave:
India, China, américa latina, industria 4.0, ciberseguridad, empleo, tecnologías de la información
Título: Tayikistán: El costo de la deuda china
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Autor:
Eurasianet

De los 3,300 millones de dólares que Tayikistán debía a los acreedores internacionales a principios de 2022, el 60 % (1.980 millones de dólares) se debe al Export-Import Bank of China, administrado por el estado, más conocido como Eximbank. Los enormes pasivos de Sri Lanka ante China han sido noticia internacional en los últimos meses y, sin embargo, lo que ese país le debe a Beijing representa solo el 10% de su deuda externa.

La deuda china generalmente se ha extendido con el propósito de construir o reacondicionar infraestructura de transporte o proyectos de energía. La mayoría de las veces, el trabajo lo implementan las propias empresas chinas.

Sin embargo, a corto plazo, la carga de la deuda está obligando a Tayikistán a regalar la plata familiar, o el oro familiar, para ser más exactos. En 2016, la empresa TBEA, con sede en Xinjiang, dio los últimos toques a una planta de energía de 400 megavatios en Dushanbe conocida como TETs-2. El gobierno de Tayikistán, para pagar esa deuda, otorgó a TBEA la concesión para desarrollar dos minas de oro. La decisión fue aprobada por el parlamento.

Palabras clave:
China, Tayikistán, Deuda, Geopolítica, infraestructura, infraestructura energética

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