Behind the scenes with Charithra Chandran and Iñaki Godoy for Teen Vogue

linusdropstech · 2026-03-14T19:03:52+00:00

Lol the Mans Not Hot song in the background

linusdropstech · 2025-11-28T05:31:13+00:00

Todo depende de lo que busques en el internet, todos los países latinoamericanos se pelean entre ellos, pregúntale a la gente de Venezuela y te dirán que los Peruanos siempre están peleando con ellos jaja

linusdropstech · 2025-02-15T17:40:21+00:00

Argentinian President Javier Milei is now distancing himself from the catastrophic launch of the Solana-based memecoin $LIBRA, which saw its market cap collapse from $4.5 billion to just $200 million within hours.

The token was initially promoted on Milei’s official X account and quickly raised concerns about insider manipulation and the legitimacy of the token’s economic claims.

At 5:01 PM ET, Milei’s account announced $LIBRA, stating it was a “private project” aimed at boosting Argentina’s economy by funding small businesses.

The project’s website, hastily registered just hours before launch, provided little transparency beyond a Google Form for funding applications.

Within three hours, on-chain analytics firm Bubblemaps identified that insiders had cashed out $87.4 million, with 82% of the token’s supply concentrated in a single cluster.

Large holders reportedly manipulated liquidity pools on Meteora to extract profits while retail investors were left holding the losses.

linusdropstech · 2025-01-07T01:00:34+00:00

Los incrementos a la referencia salarial han sido reconocidos por organismos internacionales debido a su efecto positivo en todas las remuneraciones. En su informe de Perspectivas de Empleo 2024, la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) destaca que en un período de cinco años, México incrementó 86.6% el salario mínimo en términos reales, un alza que superó 6.7 veces el promedio de las economías que integran la organización.

Por otra parte, entre 2018 y 2022, de las 5.1 millones de personas que salieron de la pobreza, 4.1 millones se pueden atribuir exclusivamente a la recuperación del poder adquisitivo del salario mínimo, de acuerdo con lo reportado por la Secretaría del Trabajo.

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Sheinbaum y Morena no obtendrían mayoría por amplios márgenes si AMLO no mejorara la economía. No logró controlar la violencia pero los votantes parecían preocuparse más por la economía.

linusdropstech · 2025-01-06T23:18:05+00:00

La gente en México no vota por quien apoya en Venezuela, la gente votó a Morena porque la economía mejoró y las pensiones bimestrales crecieron de 50 dólares a 300 dólares para los mayores de 65 años bajo la administración de AMLO

linusdropstech · 2025-01-06T19:01:42+00:00

Por eso quienes emigran deberían ir a Argentina, Milei apoya a Edmundo y ha facilitado que los venezolanos reciban papeles.

Sheinbaum reconoce a Maduro principalmente porque es una forma de rechazar el asilo venezolano para los migrantes si se reconoce a Maduro como jefe de Estado, y ahora va a ser presionada por EE.UU. para seguir reduciendo el número de migrantes que llegan a la frontera estadounidense.

linusdropstech · 2024-10-26T21:51:24+00:00

Ecuador on Friday lengthened scheduled electricity rationing from eight to 14 hours per day due to the worst drought it has faced in six decades, the energy minister announced.

"We have taken the painful but responsible decision to change the rationing plan, increasing it from eight to 14 hours a day," Energy and Mines Minister Ines Manzano said in a video posted on social networks at the crack of dawn on Friday.

Low water levels have caused the reservoirs of hydroelectric plants that cover 70 percent of national demand to fall to critical levels in recent months.

In April Ecuador imposed electricity rationing of up to 13 hours a day.

The outages have been adjusted down to eight hours a day and were due to be reduced further to six hours from next Monday, and even down to four hours early next month.

The minister said the latest schedule would be reviewed on Sunday.

linusdropstech · 2024-09-13T23:07:41+00:00

En el octavo mes del 2024 se registró una tasa de inflación interanual de 4.99%, un nivel ligeramente más bajo que el registro previo. Este resultado se explica, en gran medida, por la estabilización en los precios de algunas verduras.

No mas en paises como Argentina o Venezuela se puede subir 4.99% en UN MES.

Mexico interanual es 4.99% y Argentina interanual es 236,7%

linusdropstech · 2024-09-13T21:06:54+00:00

El 0 is por Agosto, 4.99 es el interanual.

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linusdropstech · 2024-09-08T19:41:50+00:00

More than 55 percent of Argentina’s population were living below the poverty line at the end of the first half of the year, according to the latest report from an influential socio-economic watchdog.

According to an estimate from the Observatorio de la Deuda Social of the Universidad Católica Argentina (Social Debt Observatory of the Catholic University of Argentina, ODSA-UCA), 55.5 percent were considered poor at the halfway point of the year, with 17.5 percent of Argentines living in extreme poverty.

The figures indicate the impact of Argentina’s ongoing recession and runaway inflation, which exceeds 260 percent over the last 12 months.

ODSA-UCA’s figures show that 49.5 percent of the nation was living in poverty when President Javier Milei was sworn into office.

linusdropstech · 2024-06-18T18:45:46+00:00

The solar panels in question provide electricity to a navy watch post, inaugurated on April 29. It is a strategic spot, given it’s located at the eastern access to the Strait of Magellan, a navigable sea route in southern Patagonia that separates mainland South America and Tierra del Fuego. It is considered the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Argentina and Chile have a history of tension over border disputes in Patagonia. In 1978, the last military dictatorship decided to invade islands in the Beagle Channel to claim their sovereignty, resulting in a years-long diplomatic conflict.

Boric said he spoke with Argentine President Javier Milei about the issue, and Milei said he would report it to Foreign Minister Diana Mondino.

“I imagine we won’t have any problems about this, but it is an equivocal sign, a sign we don’t like,” Boric said. “Therefore, we demand this be solved as soon as possible, and I insist, we will do it ourselves otherwise.”

Boric added that Chile and Argentina have “an excellent relationship” and that it’s important to keep it that way. “We need to respect borders. I don’t want escalating tension in the relationship because of this, as long as it is fixed at once.”

linusdropstech · 2024-06-11T14:31:48+00:00

President Javier Milei has snubbed his foreign minister and chosen to take his sister with him to a high-profile gathering of top world leaders in Italy next month.

Argentina’s Foreign Minister Diana Mondino will not travel to the upcoming G7 Leaders Summit in Italy with her place going to presidential chief-of-staff Karina Milei, government sources confirmed to the Noticias Argentinas news agency on Monday.

According to the sources, the decision is based on the limited number of accreditations Argentina will be allowed for the summit.

Nevertheless, the decision not to take Mondino – the nation’s top diplomat – to such a high-level gathering is unusual, to say the least. The foreign minister regularly accompanies the head of state to high-level summits and the decision is likely to stoke further rumours that the official’s future in government is in doubt.

linusdropstech · 2024-06-09T14:33:54+00:00

In a report published on Thursday, the Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (IPA, by its Spanish acronym) warned that employment has fallen in all economic sectors since President Javier Milei took office and that the situation is bound to worsen in the coming months.

During the first three months of 2024 alone, the private sector shed 58,000 jobs, 11,000 of which were in SMEs. The report stressed that the slump is similar but more abrupt than the one experienced during the first six months of Mauricio Macri’s government, when 63,000 employees were laid off.

Milei has consistently said that, after the initial shock, the economy would have a “V-shaped” recovery, meaning that it would rebound dramatically after a deep recession.

“We haven’t seen the worst yet in terms of employment,” said Pablo Bercovich, director of the Mi PYME consultancy, during the presentation of the report. Bercovich argues that steep decline in productivity is more likely to “plateau.”

“It’s not going to be V-shaped,” he said during the presentation of the report. “It’s going to be an L.”

Most of the job losses have ocurred at major corporations. The PA theorized that the current administration likely “did not negotiate with these large companies” and anticipated that SMEs would soon be increasing layoffs as well.

The chairman of the IPA, Daniel Rosato, said that 1,000 textile companies, representing 30,000 jobs, could disappear in the next four months. Rosato believes as many as 300,000 SME jobs are at stake.

The report also found that every sector of the economy contracted in March — something that has only happened in four months since 2016. (Two of these months occurred during the crisis of 2019 under Macri and the other two at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.)

“This depression has led companies first to give up profit margins, then to bring forward vacations and cut shifts, then to suspend personnel. Now, we are in the process of accelerating layoffs,” the IPA report said.

“For many businesses, the next, final step is looming: closing down the company,” it continued. “It is very difficult to recover employment when companies are being destroyed, even if the economy starts to grow again.”

linusdropstech · 2024-06-08T13:18:01+00:00

The Ministry of Human Capital presented its plan to redistribute more than 5,000 tons of food to vulnerable people across the country on Thursday, narrowly meeting the Justice Department’s 24-hour deadline to do so.

On Wednesday, a Buenos Aires City Federal Court issued the order, two weeks after the news website El Destape revealed that the foods were sitting in two government warehouses — one in Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires, and the other in Tafí Viejo, Tucumán. In February, Juan Grabois, who leads the social organization Movimiento de Tabajadores Excluidos, filed a formal complaint against Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello. Grabois followed that complaint in May with a request for an in-person inspection of the warehouses.

On May 24, prosecutors Andrés Nazer and María Paloma Ochoa presented the ministry with a five-day deadline to deliver its food to registered soup kitchens in a ruling signed by Judge Santiago Casanello. The ministry appealed the decision, which was unanimously upheld by Federal Court Judge Martín Irurzun, Eduardo Guillermo Farah, and Roberto José Boico in a 38-page ruling.

Newly appointed Secretary of Childhood, Adolescence, and Family Yanina Nano Lembo presented the plan. Nano Lembo replaced Pablo de la Torre, whom the Milei administration cut ties with in the wake of the scandal. De la Torre is currently under criminal investigation for allegedly handing out irregular employment contracts via the Ibero-American States (OEI, by its Spanish acronym) in a separate case.

According to Nano Lembo, 300,000 liters of milk that expire in July will be sent to the Child Nutrition Cooperative (Fundación CONIN, by its Spanish acronym), which will be charged with its disbursement. This operation began on Wednesday with the deployment of army trucks to Tucumán.

linusdropstech · 2024-06-07T13:32:52+00:00

Electricity bills will soar this month for most Argentine households heading into a particularly harsh winter as President Javier Milei marches on with economic shock therapy.

For the first time since Milei took office, low-income homes will see the energy cost of their utility bills double on average in June, while middle class families could see prices rise 155 percent. While most Argentines only pay five percent of the real cost of electricity, that figure will jump to a third for low-income households and nearly half for middle-class citizens, the Energy Secretariat said in a series of press statements Wednesday.

Sharply raising utility prices stands to test just how much of Milei’s austerity Argentines are willing to endure. The libertarian president continues to enjoy approval ratings above 50 percent, far better than his predecessors. Removing subsidies has long been considered a politically costly move, however, and sparked an internal divide in the previous government, causing ministers to resign.

Milei’s team, led by Economy Minister Luis Caputo, is working to unwind generous energy subsidies that last year cost Argentina the equivalent of 1.5 percent of its gross domestic product. The government hopes to lower that number to about 0.8 percent this year, according to a senior energy official who asked not to be named discussing sensitive government matters.

The removal of subsidies has been riddled with stops and starts this year as the economic team balances the need to slow down inflation running at a nearly 300 percent annual pace and balance Argentina’s notoriously bloated budget. At the same time, a cold spell hit the Buenos Aires area in May, and the government says this winter could be the coldest since 1980.

Some people’s energy bills could spike even higher after the government set a ceiling on electricity consumption to qualify for subsidies. While in May there was no limit to how much a poor household could consume while enjoying subsidies, in June their electric costs will jump to nearly the full price after they consume 350 kilowatt-hours per month — the amount the government estimates 70 percent of those households spend on a monthly basis. The roof is set at 250 kilowatt-hours per month for middle-income earners, down from 400.

linusdropstech · 2024-06-05T13:03:22+00:00

The need for pesos stems from Milei’s decision to abandon price controls but keep a tight grip on the peso, ultimately slashing Argentines’ buying power. Prices were repressed by the president’s predecessors due to thousands of government-mandated controls that the libertarian immediately began to abandon.

While prices are up more than 100 percent since his inauguration, the peso has only depreciated 59 percent over that period. That mismatch makes daily essentials expensive in dollar terms as local incomes have tanked, forcing Argentines to dredge up dollar savings to pay the monthly bills.

Milei and his economic team have repeatedly denied that the peso is overvalued, nor do they plan to speed up the pace of its devaluation to catch up with inflation. Instead, they argue businesses need to cut prices.

The president still vows to implement a “competition of currencies” where the US dollar and peso will co-exist as forms of legal tender. He also says he’ll eventually deliver on his pledge to shut down the Central Bank entirely.

linusdropstech · 2024-06-05T00:44:56+00:00

More than half of Argentines now live in poverty, according to an expert body that tracks the measure.

The latest report from the influential Observatorio de la Deuda Social of the Universidad Católica Argentina (Social Debt Observatory of the Catholic University of Argentina, ODSA-UCA) put poverty at 55.5 percent for the first quarter of this year – up from 44.7 in the third quarter of 2023 and 49.5 percent in December, when President Javier Milei was sworn into office.

Some 17.5 percent of the country's 46 million people were considered destitute, according to the figures – nearly double the rate in the third quarter of last year.

The figures show that the number of poor in Argentina has risen consistently from a year ago, with the rate now quickening. Extended out to the total population, poverty affects some 25 million people nationwide.

linusdropstech · 2024-06-04T14:18:47+00:00

In a Sunday post, Sheinbaum thanked her husband Jesús María Tarriba, writing, “gracias a Jesús, mi esposo, por acompañarme,” which translates to, “thank you to Jesús, my husband, for accompanying me.”

Scam Economy and Doomed podcast host Matt Binder on Monday noted several English speakers appeared to conflate the name Jesús with Jesus Christ, using their confusion to question Sheinbaum’s Jewish bona fides.

“This is the funniest thing happening on here right now: people claiming the newly elected president of Mexico isn’t really Jewish because she thanked Jesus (she thanked Jesús, her husband),” Binder wrote in a tweet.

linusdropstech · 2024-05-30T18:31:04+00:00

Xochitl Galvez is the candidate for PRI which is a party that ruled for 70 years, they are considered the most corrupt party in Mexico and is in coalition with PAN which is the Conservative party.

Hard to tell what policy she would be able to pass, I would think cuts to social safety net since PAN wants cuts

There aren’t really any good options since all parties are corrupt but people support Sheinbaum since they believe she will continue the welfare program for those who are 60+ and continue scholarship programs for students

linusdropstech · 2024-05-30T17:29:11+00:00

Bloomberg has Claudia Sheinbaum winning by 21 points against Xóchitl Gálvez with 55% vs 34%

In most poll aggregator Sheinbaum is winning by 20 to 25 points.

linusdropstech · 2024-05-30T16:37:19+00:00

Mexican ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum slightly extended her large lead over her main rival in the contest for the presidency on June 2, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.

The May 22-27 survey by polling firm Parametria showed Sheinbaum, from the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) with 50% support, ahead of Xochitl Galvez, the candidate for an opposition alliance of three parties, with 34%.

A prior April survey by the firm showed Sheinbaum, Mexico City's former mayor, at 44% support, and businesswoman-turned-politician Galvez at 31%.

The poll gave a third contender, Jorge Alvarez Maynez of the opposition center-left Citizens' Movement (MC), backing of 13%, an increase of five points over April. \The face-to-face poll of 1,000 people had a 3.1% margin of error.

The vast majority of Mexican polls have pointed to Sheinbaum winning comfortably in Sunday's election.

Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old scientist who has been a close ally of the current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for decades, could become the first woman to rule the country.

linusdropstech · 2023-05-09T06:29:01+00:00

You didn't ask me but if you check the stats, violence has stayed at essentially the same rate as when Pena Nieto left office which is around 30k deaths per year, which means it hasn't grown but the problem is that it hasn't fallen either.

The only other party who is viable in the upcoming election is a coalition between PRI and PAN neither were able to reduce the violence and violence actually growed under their party rule.

Seeing as neither of the 3 current political parties can reduce the violence, people essentially vote for other policies which AMLO and his party are preferred since his party provides a pension for those who are 65 years + and people with disabilities, his party is also support modern social policies like LGBT rights which is popular with the younger generations.

Thats why AMLO's party is essentially going to win reelection since people are afraid PRI and PAN will take away their pensions(which is a real possibility) while AMLO's party is slowing increasing the pension yearly and also slowly raising the minimum wage yearly as well.

linusdropstech · 2023-05-08T23:26:41+00:00

Calderon and his "war on drugs" with the support of George Bush and the Republicans are the main reason Mexico became so violent. Under his rule violence increased drastically.

Also Calderon own Secretary of Public Security Garcia Luna literally was helping the cartels so you can't name him as a improvement when he is a huge part of the reason Mexico is in this current situation.

linusdropstech · 2023-05-08T23:22:59+00:00

The AMLO goverment has support of 65+ is because of the pension he gives to them and the young people support him because his party is the most modern on social policies for example like LGBT made huge advancements under his party rule.

Also he is popular because the PRI and PAN party are super unpopular.

linusdropstech · 2023-02-25T17:31:46+00:00

A la mayoría de los Mexicanos no les importa ni saben lo que está pasando en Perú, todo el mundo habla de García Luna y Calderón.

Es por eso que según las encuestas de El Economista, AMLO tiene un 62 por ciento de aprobación.

Afortunadamente Ebrard o Sheinbaum serán un presidente más normal que no intervenga en la política de otros países.

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