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Legal approaches to paid sex vary widely: many liberal Western democracies permit or regulate prostitution (for example Germany and the Netherlands), while others decriminalize sex work at a subnation...
No country in 2024 formally *requires* citizens or travelers to use a mobile or digital ID in place of a physical passport for international travel; digital ID systems exist widely but generally suppl...
US beef imports have risen sharply since 2023, with most reputable forecasts and data products clustering around roughly 4.2–5.2 billion pounds for recent years and 2025 projections; USDA/ERS and seve...
Several of the provided sources list countries where prostitution is reported as fully legal or regulated, but none present a uniformly agreed global list of countries that have *completely decriminal...
Paraguay has enacted Law No. 7177/2023 to recognise national documents in digital form and launched a government PortalParaguay app that offers an “Identidad Electrónica” used to access state services...
Cuba entered 1959 with one of the higher GDP-per‑capita levels in Latin America — roughly $2,363 in 1958 and “third in the region” behind Venezuela and Uruguay by some accounts . After the Revolution ...
A growing number of countries now collect fingerprints from arriving foreign travelers, most prominently the 29 Schengen/European countries implementing the Entry/Exit System (EES), plus a patchwork o...
U.S. beef imports rose sharply in 2024–25 as domestic production tightened; USDA/ERS and multiple industry outlets show imports peaking around 4.4–5.18 billion pounds in 2025 depending on the forecast...
Most recent reporting and studies repeatedly list a small, overlapping set of countries — Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, and several South American nations (notably Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Parag...
Across multiple recent rankings and travel analyses, the Southern Cone — led by , and — consistently appears as the in for residents and long-term visitors, with , and parts of the (notably the ) also...
Cuba entered the 20th century as one of Latin America’s relatively prosperous economies and by 1958 had a reported per‑capita GDP of $2,363, “in the middle of Latin American countries” . Scholarly rec...
No credible evidence shows any country is entirely free of looking down on Black people; and varies in form and intensity. Surveys and reports identify places with comparatively lower reported discrim...
A number of high-profile and collaborators established postwar lives in , , and ; some were later captured, extradited, assassinated or died in hiding while others evaded justice for decades, helped b...
but the sources do not show a legally compulsory national "" that replaces the physical card; Uruguay has a mature digital-ID programme (ID Uruguay) and cross‑border interoperability pilots, and digit...
requires every resident to hold the national identity card (Cédula de Identidad) from about 45 days of age, but the country’s — eID chips, digital signatures and the ID Uruguay system — is an enabled ...
The underlies , , and , and no single country holds exclusive state ownership of the entire transboundary reservoir; each country exercises rights and regulatory control only within its national (and ...
is demonstrably self-sufficient in electricity and largely self-sufficient in food, having moved to a near‑fully renewable electrical mix and producing food well in excess of domestic needs . is the a...
treats as a special category under its Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 18.331) and has introduced explicit obligations—such as impact assessments, breach notification duties and, in some proposa...
requires a national identity document (Documento de Identidad or cédula de identidad) for residents — including nationals, naturalized citizens, foreign residents and asylum-seekers — with issuance be...
After 1945 a network of escape routes known as “ratlines” carried fleeing Nazis and collaborators into South America, with Argentina the best-documented destination and Brazil, Chile and Paraguay also...