Brazil’s refugee policy needs a radical overhaul in response to Venezuela’s crisis
Brazil has received 15,000 asylum claims this year, but its national asylum system hasn’t been updated since 1997 when it got 500 applications a year
Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse
Roymar Bello screamed. She was one of 17 passengers who had climbed onto the overloaded fishing boat with aging motors in July, hoping to escape Venezuela’s economic disaster for a new life on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.
Desperate Venezuelans are streaming across the Amazon Basin by the tens of thousands to reach Brazil. They are concocting elaborate scams to sneak through airports in Caribbean nations that once accepted them freely. When Venezuela opened its border with Colombia for just two days in July, 120,000 people poured across, simply to buy food, officials said. An untold number stayed.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/americas/hungry-venezuelans-flee-in-boats-to-escape-economic-collapse.html?smid=tw-s
#Curaçao #Antilles #Brésil
Venezuela: la crisi dell’economia insegue chi scappa in Brasile
Ogni giorno 300 profughi lasciano il paese di Maduro in direzione Brasile. Dove però non trovano l’accoglienza sperata. Fuori dal Venezuela, infatti, si registrano situazioni di fame e una «guerra tra poveri». A farne le spese sono spesso bambini, adolescenti e donne. Ecco le ultime notizie dallo stato brasiliano della Roraima
▻https://www.osservatoriodiritti.it/2018/02/12/venezuela-crisi-economia-venezuelani-brasile
L’incroyable fortune offshore du premier ministre turc : 140 millions d’euros
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/240517/lincroyable-fortune-offshore-du-premier-ministre-turc-140-millions-deuros
Le premier ministre turc #Binali_Yildirim lors d’un discours à l’Assemblée nationale à Ankara. © Reuters Les documents Malta Files révèlent que la famille du premier ministre turc Binali Yildirim détient un patrimoine d’au moins 140 millions d’euros logé dans des #paradis_fiscaux, dont onze #navires et sept propriétés néerlandaises. Une richesse d’autant plus suspecte qu’elle a été accumulée en seulement dix ans.
#International #bateaux #Curaçao #évasion_fiscale #Immobilier #Malte #Panama #Pays-Bas #Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan #turquie
Where there is oil and gas there is Schlumberger | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/where-there-is-oil-and-gas-there-is-schlumberger
One of Schlumberger’s tricks of the trade is its near-statelessness. Unlike Halliburton, it is not US-owned. Despite being a publicly listed company both in the US and the UK, and having “headquarters” in London (a sleek glass skyscraper just yards from Buckingham Palace), Paris, The Hague and Houston, Schlumberger is formally incorporated in Curaçao, a Caribbean offshore haven with ties to the Netherlands.
(...) “You could almost say Schlumberger is the Apple of the oil fields, the high tech company, they’re ubiquitous,” explains Robert MacKenzie, an analyst at Iberia Capital Partners and a former employee of Schlumberger.
“If you’re trying to develop a field and you want the best you hire Schlumberger. If you’re not certain how to work it and you want someone to help figure out how you develop it you call Schlumberger. They have driven many technology advances in the industry in the past and they continue to do that.”
Schlumberger’s technological dominance is reflected in its formidable #patent portfolio.
