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☆ A palm oil company, a group of US financiers, and the destruction of Peru's rainforest
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-31 | by ( Brendan Borrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +62 min

He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy. As environmental activists raised the alarm about the palm oil industry's toll on the tropical forests of Southeast Asia two decades ago, Unilever, the world's largest buyer of palm oil, teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund and other parties to establish the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Six years later, as a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, they sold that operation to Felda Global Ventures, the third-largest palm oil company in the world, for almost $200 million. Not only was García's government offering sweetheart deals to foreign investors under its National Plan to Promote Oil Palm, but the country had more than 3 million acres suitable for oil palm. It was Washington Bolívar, the activist who had helped Ucayali's Indigenous communities fight the palm oil plantations.

Persons: Florence Goupil, Thomas Lovejoy, Ocho, Michael Spoor, Dennis Melka, Melka, Julia Urrunaga, He's, Spoor, NewStream, Krassimir Doldourov, Doldourov, William Park, Park, —, Tamshiyacu, Matt, Plantaciones, Urrunaga, Graeme Iain Brown, Brown, Alan García, Bruno Tangoa, Rolf Wachholtz, Bill Randall, Alfredo Rivera Loarte, Rivera's, Julio, Maria Teresa Trigoso, Eric Varvel, Randall, Torben Karlshoej, Anholt, We've, Juan Luis Dammert Bello, Wilson Barbarán Soria, Dammert, Cocaland, Hans, Jochen Wiese, Pablo Ramírez Mori, Wiese, Ramírez, Santa Clara de Uchunya, de Uchunya, Pucallpa, Washington Bolívar, Bolívar, Bolivár, deforest, Gustavo Hoyos, Plantaciones de Pucallpa, Alfredo Rivera, Isaac Huamán Pérez, Huamán, Ulises Saldaña Bardales, Dennis, Freddy Monteluiz Paima, Monteluiz, Anholt's, El, Amerra, Craig Tashjian, Farro, Pautrat Oyarzún, Lucila Pautrat, Pautrat, Ulises Saldaña, Doldorouv —, Ocho Sur, Isaac Huamán, Joseph Massoud, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, Álvaro Agurto Mazzini, Saldaña, Agurto, de, Barbarán, Señor, Ulises, Luisa Mori González, Luisa Mori Gonzáles, Mori, gesturing, breaded, Diane Farrell, Candice Welsch, Welsch, Rodás, Washington, Estudio Organizations: Ocho, Colgate, empresa, Chicago's, World Bank, Food, Environment Reporting Network, Pulitzer Center, Ocho Sur, Ocho Sur Group, United Oils, Oils, European Union, Business, PepsiCo, Wyndham, Exxon, Latin America, Unilever, World Wildlife Fund, Oil, Environmental Investigation Agency, Department of Ucayali, Peru's, Marine Corps, Arrowhead, Eco, Workers, Center for International Environmental Law, Environmental, British Virgin Islands, United Oils Limited, La, Credit Suisse, Plantations, Felda Global Ventures, Labor, United Nations, US Agency for International Development, United Nations Office, Drugs, United, USAID, UN, Pacific Agri Capital, Anholt Services, Nasdaq, London Stock Exchange, Peru's Public Ministry, Business Insider, Pacific Agri, Cayman, Amerra Capital Management, Nestlé, Fox News, Henley, Sur, Farmers, Peruvian Amazon, Union Locations: Peru, Tibecocha, Zanja Seca, Manhattan, Peruvian, Ocho, Ucayali, Brazil, Mumbai, Ocho Sur, Ocho Sur —, American, United, Washington, DC, Pucallpa, Machu Picchu, Iowa, Massachusetts, NewStream, Latin, Mexico, Southeast Asia, Ocho Sur's, Iquitos, Bronxville , New York, Tamshiyacu, Florence, Malaysian, Washington ,, Loreto, British Virgin, Cayman Islands, Borneo, San Francisco, Marin County , California, New York, London, Prague, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indonesian, South Sudan, Myanmar, Ucayali —, United States, Lima, Melka, Asia, Pacific, Anholt, Santa Clara, Seca, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Santa, Dennis Melka's, Esperanza, Malaysian Borneo, Czech, Spoor, Jakarta, England, Italy, Porvenir

☆ Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

The Summary The bird flu outbreak took several concerning turns this year, with the number of human cases up to at least 64. Experts outlined several indicators that the virus’ spread is going in the wrong direction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the country’s first severe bird flu infection on Wednesday, a critically ill patient in Louisiana. “So many signs are going in the wrong direction.”No bird flu transmission between humans has been documented, and the CDC maintains that the immediate risk to public health is low. If someone gets co-infected with a seasonal flu virus and bird flu, the two can exchange chunks of genetic code.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, ”, Peter Chin, Scott Hensley, Ulises Riuz, Jennifer Nuzzo, hadn’t, ” Andrew Bowman, Michael M, ” Chin, Hong, “, ” Nuzzo, We’ve, we’ve, Amy Lockwood, —, It’s, Peggy Honein, Lockwood, Honein, ” Lockwood, Fatinah, Jim Paulson, Hensley, United States ’, Demetre Daskalakis, he’s, ” Hensley, farmworkers, Nuzzo, Andrew Trister Organizations: Disease Control, Prevention, University of California, CDC, University of Pennsylvania, U.S . Department of Agriculture, Getty, Research, Brown University School of, Pandemic, Ohio State University, NBC News, Animal Health, Center, Cornell University, Infectious, Innovation, Boston Globe, Scripps Research, National Center, USDA, Animal Disease, USDA Agricultural Research, Drug Administration, Moderna Locations: Louisiana, California, San Francisco, U.S, AFP, Missouri, Delaware, Canada, British Columbia, Verily, Boston, United States, Ames , Iowa

☆ What could get more expensive if Trump launches a new trade war with Mexico and Canada
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

While leaders of the two nations continue to butt heads, US consumers have paid the price, shelling out more money on goods imported from China. Now Trump is focusing his attention on America’s largest and third-largest trading partners: Mexico and Canada. The 25% tariff Trump floated would have “huge impacts” on gas prices, amounting to an increase between 25 cents to 75 cents per gallon, he said. Said differently, your guac and avocado toast could skyrocket if 25% tariffs are levied on Mexico. Bottom line: It’s going to hurtThe new round of tariffs Trump is prepared to impose comes as the US has grown increasingly reliant on imports from Mexico and Canada.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, Joe Biden, Brace, Todd Korol, ” Patrick De Haan, Ulises Ruiz, Said, Maurico Palos, tariffs Trump, That’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Trump, Gas, US Energy Information Administration, Rockies, Produce, Commerce Department, AFP, Getty, United, United Nations ’, General Motors, Ford, General Motors Co, Silao, Bloomberg Locations: New York, America, China, Mexico, Canada, West Coast, Kindersley , Saskatchewan, Great Lakes, Midwest, United States, Cerritos, Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Silao, Guanajuato

☆ Why Mexico’s election is more important than ever for the United States
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sofía Benavides | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But it’s not just the massive scale of the event that makes it so important in the eyes of observers across the border in the United States. Key to facilitating this shift was the creation of the USMCA trade agreement, which came into effect in 2020 between Mexico, the United States and Canada. “Mexico committed to addressing the two main Mexican issues affecting the United States and that will determine the next election: migration and fentanyl. “But the United States also has to dismantle the network of traffickers within (its own borders). There is a significant network of organized crime in the United States that the administration must arrest, bring to trial, and whose activities it must restrict,” she added.

Persons: Mexico’s, it’s, – Claudia Sheinbaum, Xóchitl Gálvez, Xochitl Galvez, Quetzalli, Claudia Sheinbaum, Raquel Cunha, Reuters “, ”, Rafael Fernández de Castro Medina, Lila Abed, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, “, ” Abed, Abed, Ulises Ruiz, Raquel López Portillo Maltos, Jorge Alberto Schiavon Uriegas, López Obrador, Schiavon Uriegas, Carin Zissis, Sheinbaum, Zissis, Lopez Obrador, ¨, Chandan Khanna, “ México, Jose Luis Gonzalez, “ López Obrador Organizations: CNN, Sigamos, Reuters, Center for US, Mexico Studies, University of California, Mexico Institute, Wilson, Workers, AFP, Getty, Mexican Council, Foreign Relations, Center for Studies, Foreign, Trump, Biden, Americas Society, National Guard, Army, ¨ Trump, Border Patrol, Mexican Refugee Aid Commission, Mexican Army, National Security Law, CIA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republican, Democratic Locations: United States, Morena, Mexico City, Mexico, San Diego, China, Canada, Ukraine, Cerritos, Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, “ Mexico, Americas, Piedras Negras, Eagle, , Texas, Operation Juarez, Ciudad Juarez

☆ Mexico’s next president will be a woman. But violence has overshadowed the glass ceiling being shattered.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Tara John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Sheinbaum is riding on a wave of popularity with the support of her long-time ally, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and their leftist Morena party. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gestures during an event in Mexico City. It was a strategy that saw the son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman released on the orders of López Obrador in 2019 to avoid bloodshed. The Supreme Court upheld an opposition complaint and ordered López Obrador to return the National Guard to civilian jurisdiction. Amid ongoing “gender-based violence, including femicides and disappearances,” Kloppe-Santamaría said, getting a female president at this moment feels “very paradoxical.”

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, “, Sheinbaum, –, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Xochitl Gálvez, Raquel Cunha, ” Stephanie Brewer, ”, López Obrador’s, Enrique Peña Nieto’s, Ulises Ruiz, Galvez, ” Gálvez, …, ” Brewer, Felipe Calderón, “ Militarization, López Obrador, Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman, Armando Perez Luna, Ivan Macias Ivan Macias, Brewer, Falko Ernst, Gema, Santamaría Organizations: CNN, Mexico City, PAN, Reuters, Washington Office, Latin, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics, –, coy, Mirador, AFP, Getty, National Guard, Defense, Defense . Police, National Action Party, REUTERS, Crisis, ” CNN, Defence, George Washington University ., Galvaz, Mexico City police Locations: Mexico, ”, Chiapas, Mexico’s, Guatemala, Morena, Mexico City, “ Mexico, Latin America, WOLA, Mirador San Miguel, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco State, militarization, Maravatio, Michoacan, Mexican, femicides

☆ Cocaine and Consequences: A Honduran President’s Trial in New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Corey Kilgannon | Wesley Parnell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the clamor of the New York City news cycle, the criminal case currently playing out in Lower Manhattan against former President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras hardly registers. To Hondurans, it is a rare chance for national justice. “He sent our country to hell,” said Flavio Ulises Yuja, 62, who had traveled from Honduras to Florida for a vacation but abruptly changed plans and flew to New York to attend the trial. The trial is a spotlight on the woes of a country plagued by corruption, poverty and lawlessness. And even as Americans debate weaknesses in their own democracy and justice system, Hondurans see American courts as a venue for something unavailable back home: a fair trial and a measure of justice.

Persons: Juan Orlando Hernández, Hernández, “, ”, Flavio Ulises Yuja Organizations: New York, Court Locations: New York City, Lower Manhattan, Honduras, American, Florida, New York

☆ Cuba fuel shortages spark fistfights, queues and holiday cutbacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Patrick Oppmann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Havana, Cuba CNN —As the gas lines grow longer, tempers in Cuba are growing shorter. Since mid-April, Cuba has been beset with its most dire fuel shortages in years, prompting comparisons to the severe disruptions Cubans suffered after the fall of the Soviet Union. Lines stretch for blocks even at gas stations where there has been no fuel for days. Taxi drivers wait in line to fill fuel at a petrol station in Havana. “How can we go to May Day when we have to be in a line for gas,” she said.

☆ A Mexico soccer icon entered politics. Prosecutors say narcos followed
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Cuernavaca | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +27 min

Regional politicians, officials and military officers gathered in the Morelos state capital of Cuernavaca for breakfast in February 2022 to mark Mexico’s annual Army day. Mexican drug lords have a long tradition of buying off politicians in exchange for government protection of their illicit trade. Attempts to reach two of the alleged drug traffickers in the photo – Figueroa and Irving Solano Vera – were unsuccessful. Prosecutors in April asked the Morelos state congress to impeach Blanco so that he could be stripped of that shield. “He likes me very much because I’m not a politician,” Blanco told Reuters, in reference to the president.

☆ I’m a 22-year-old Amazon delivery driver. The cameras in my truck keep me on high alert, but it’s my dream job and the flexible hours are great.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Victoria Goldiee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ulises Perez, 22, has been an Amazon delivery driver in Salt Lake City since 2020. I'd always wanted to be an Amazon driver as soon as I knew of the job's existence. I began to bide my time until I turned 21 — which is the official age to start work as an Amazon driver — and I could join my dream profession. A while after leaving my previous job, I came across an opening for a driver on Indeed, which I applied for. (Editor's note: Perez, like many Amazon delivery drivers, was hired by a local delivery-service partner and is considered an independent subcontractor with Amazon.)

☆ Novak Djokovic leaves no stone unturned in pursuit of perfection, but secrecy with drink mixture draws scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —In his pursuit of greatness, it has been well documented that Novak Djokovic has left no stone unturned. Badio is then shielded by two other men as he finishes preparing the drink, before handing it to a ball girl to pass onto Djokovic. However, Djokovic’s wife Jelena has launched a vigorous defense of the 21-time grand slam champion on social media. “I don’t see anything dodgy,” Jelena Djokovic wrote in one reply. It’s a private matter between them but we’d like to welcome Novak back – he’s a nine-time champion – provided he gets the right entry requirements into Australia.”

☆ 24 of the world’s best sandwiches
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-11 | by ( Terry Ward | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

Fanfo/Adobe Stock Montreal smoked meat sandwich, Canada:Smoked meat sandwiches sit on the counter at Schwartz's Deli in Montreal. This starchy wonderland features buttered white bread and stuffed with fries (aka chips in its native Britain). Montreal smoked meat sandwich, CanadaSmoked meat sandwiches, seen here at Schwartz's deli in Montreal, are piled high with smoked beef brisket. Cucumber sandwich, United KingdomOn the dainty side of the sandwich spectrum, cucumber sandwiches are a traditional English afternoon tea staple, often spotted on the same tiered platters with scones and mini-pastries. But if you’re whipping one up at home, any thick white bread is sure to be satisfying.

Persons: “ Eva Longoria, Joshua Resnick, Ulises Lima, Anastasia Nurullina, NOLA, Brent HofackerAdobe, Marlon, It's, Graham Hughes, AP Po, Stacy Zarin Goldberg, butty, PimboroughAdobe, Reuben, Masahiro Makino, Matt Rourke, Broodje haring, broodje haring, Brent Hofacker, Juan Mabromata, Patrick Donovan, Eva Longoria, ” Tramezzino, shawarma, mì, chả lụa, cilantro, Pan, Bon appétit, smørrebrød, Andy Huse, Chip butty, Said, sando, Reuben –, monsieur, madame, madame et monsieur, Philly cheesesteak, Falafel, –, You’ll, It’s Organizations: CNN, Adobe, Swiss, Adobe Stock Montreal, Canadian Press, AP, The Washington Post, Getty, truffle, New Orleans ’ Lower, la Miami, New, Philly, futbol Locations: Mexico, Italy, Middle, Mexican, Vietnam, United States, New Orleans, Genoa, Uruguay, bagnat, France, Denmark, Copenhagen, South Africa, Canada, Montreal, Tunisia, Cuba, Kingdom, United Kingdom, Britain, Japan, Philadelphia, Netherlands, Africa, Argentina, AFP, New England, Guadalajara, Mexico’s Jalisco, Turin, Venice, tramezzini, Europe, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Pambazo, Veracruz, Puebla, It’s, Ho Chi Minh City, , New Orleans, Orleans, Chivito, Uruguayan, Pan bagnat, Nice, South, Bon, Smørrebrød, Scandinavia, Gauteng, Johannesburg, bologna, Quebec, Fricassé, Florida, Miami, Tampa, la Tampa, la, Lancashire, England, Nebraska, New York, City, Eastern, Beirut, Amman, Choripán, Buenos Aires, South America, Maine, Connecticut

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