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Theater can bridge history, geography and cultural relations to enlighten audiences in a way that the classroom simply can't.
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An initiative to strengthen Argentina's electoral process convened politicians, tech executives and scholars.
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A new episode of the BBC History Hour podcast reviews the beginning of its international broadcasting services in Portuguese and Spanish.
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How Bolivia is re-branding the coca leaf in hopes of reclaiming the crop's cultural and (legal) economic potential.
Luke Dalla Bona, a former Sault resident currently living and working in Ecuador, has a plan to help a small South American community prosper by getting a completely natural product on the market. [...] After the earthquake took a painful bite out of Agua Blanca’s tourism revenue, the villagers, Dalla Bona said, decided to pursue bottling of natural shampoo, using the surrounding forest as a resource.
The symbolic gesture of picking São Paulo for the grand opening of Japan House hints at the value attributed by Japan to its strategic global partnership with Brasília. [...] unless Tokyo and Brasília decide to go for a thorough re-evaluation of the terms upon which their dysfunctional bilateral cooperation was structured over time, and think of innovative ways to carry it through in the future, Japan House will be of little help in making the ties that unite the two countries even bolder.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry will this year spend €251,862.16 on development projects to impoverished countries. The money will be distributed across 12 different projects from local non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) across Asia, Africa and South America as part of the government’s Official Development Assistance policy.
A new series focuses on indigenous communities across the Americas.