Chris Arsenault

De­spite a sym­bol­ic vic­to­ry in Hugo Chavez’s home state, an­a­lysts say the oil-rich na­tion’s op­po­si­tion has few op­tions.

Re­spon­si­ble for two-thirds of do­mes­tic ‘ter­ror at­tacks’, far-right groups pose sig­nif­i­cant threats in 2022, say ex­perts.

From new pro­tect­ed ar­eas to ozone lay­er gains, this year saw some pos­i­tive trends, even as myr­i­ad prob­lems per­sist.

As pro­gres­sives win key elec­tions from Hon­duras to Peru, an­a­lysts point to chang­ing re­gion­al dy­nam­ics.

Guyana, where trees cov­er 90 per­cent of the land, can of­fer in­sights to pro­tect world’s largest rain­for­est, ex­perts say.

‘I think every­body re­alis­es we need to change our di­ets,’ says ex­pert on ed­i­ble in­sects, as glob­al pop­u­la­tion soars.

‘It’s like go­ing into the tele­graph busi­ness now when we are talk­ing about 5G cel­lu­lar,’ says one econ­o­mist.

Non-es­sen­tial trips across the world’s longest land bor­der for ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed trav­el­ers will recom­mence No­vem­ber 8.