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Sovereign state in South America
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Paraguay’s Law No. 7177/2023 establishes a legal basis for government-recognized digital identity credentials, but reporting and NGO analysis leave open exactly which biometric modalities the new digi...
Uruguay’s tax system is largely territorial: , which makes the country attractive to expats who can structure residence and income accordingly. However, outcomes depend on residency status, specific r...
No country in the available reporting is documented to accept a consumer digital ID wallet in place of a passport for international border entry in 2026; instead the clearest near-term change is an EU...
There is no single outcome when jurisdictions move to legalize or decriminalize drugs: evidence and expert opinion in the sources show clear benefits (reduced arrests, potential fiscal gains, regulate...
There is no single country that all experts agree “has the best voting process”; different rankings and commentators highlight different strengths. Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit ra...
Uruguay’s healthcare is widely reported as among the stronger systems in South America: it has high life expectancy (78.3 years in 2024) and a high doctor-to-population ratio (about 4.6 doctors/1,000 ...
Uruguay offers multiple residency routes——but published thresholds and timelines vary across sources. Key contested points include the minimum monthly income required for legal residency, the size of ...
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...
A broad and rapid international reaction followed the U.S. military operation in Venezuela: many governments, multilateral institutions and regional actors condemned what they called a breach of sover...
Il Brasile, guidato dal presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ha condannato con fermezza l'azione militare statunitense in Venezuela definendola una «gravissima offesa» alla sovranità nazionale e una ...