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I’m Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News, So I Illustrated 50 Of The Best Ones From 2019
We are often bombarded with fear-mongering and shocking headlines that make us feel that the world is falling apart.
However, while it’s important to report on problems and issues, I believe there is so much good in this world that it needs to be found and promoted just as widely.
Because of that, I started The Happy Broadcast. It's an anti-venom to the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media. Also, this year, I’ve illustrated even more happy news than in 2018.
We need more positive news to acknowledge that the world is actually getting better little by little.
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When I'm working on The Happy Broadcast, I try to pick news that has an international appeal and touches themes like animal rights, climate change and science. News that shows how much we’re progressing on many fronts despite being often bombarded with few-mongering headlines.
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Sheralyn Cl 5 years ago
So a southern White rhino will carry the pregnancy. There is a very specific seven generation plan where they will mix southern and northern and then ultimately land up with basically completely northern White rhino.
•_• 5 years ago
Yay! I learned a little bit about cloning and stuff like this last year and this is really hard to do
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Rhinos, and all animal species for that matter, need NOT to be massacred and have their wild habitat destroyed - the need to fertilize wild animals in the captivity is not good news. Let's be realistic, looking at the world through the pink glasses will not make this planet just and prosperous for all its inhabitants.
ماجد الريس 5 years ago
I don't know how they think that will happen, with only 7 to be fertilized from 2 individuals, alive the species would have to pretty much be cloned, There is not enough genetic diversity to recreate an entire population without repercussions a few generations down. :/
Sherie Bales 5 years ago
!Wow! I'm loving the idea of an upbeat news broadcasting. There are enough good things to show every day within this and other countries!
Kate Judson 5 years ago
Ha! Sorry, this will possibly save Northern White Rhinos genetics but who will teach these lab borns to be rhinos and where will they be living as rhinos? A species is technically extinct when it's connection to survival in an ecology is lost. Humans haven't proven themselves to be a sufficient substitute for that yet.
Sheralyn Cl 5 years ago
They are going to be born to southern White rhino mother's
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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Wow! This is wonderful. It would be such a shame to lose these magnificent animals.
MadAlien81 4 years ago
Rhinos are mammals, they don't lay eggs!!!! "rhinoceros are mammals, so they give birth to one, sometimes two babies after a gestation period of between 15-18 months. "
Rudi Strubbe 4 years ago
Define "save the species"? 7 captive animals are not a species. They are a relic of what used to be a beautiful species that had a place and a role in the ecosystem it inhabited, before humanity showed up and f****d it all up... This is not good news. This is feel good waffle.
Linda DeBaker Mucha Thomas 5 years ago
Praying it is successful! Man will save what man hunted mercilessly!
Linda Kennedy 5 years ago
But, how does that save the species when there is such a small gene pool?
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
This is the type of news I long to see, saving our iconic beauties !!!
Charlie Mercier 5 years ago
Sorry to be a downer but that's just seven "eggs" with two living rhinos. I'm not hopeful about their future. Maybe if they had posted this as #50.
Theresa Jones 5 years ago
Sorry but I can't see how only having two Northern white rhinos left in the whole wide world is something to feel happy about. We have all but obliterated another species. If this is what we have to be happy about then, our world is probably going to end even sooner than we thought!! Being happy about this is madness!
Allan Breum 5 years ago
No, it won't You need at least 200 healthy, and genetically diverse individuals to continue a species. These Rhinos are extincts, they just haven't died yet...
Que Estavia 5 years ago
7 rhino babies is good news, but won’t be enough to save the species. How much genetic diversity do they repesent?
Karen Chaddock 5 years ago
That was a good idea and might be something to consider doing for other endangered species too.
Myxomatosis 5 years ago
This is true? How did this miss my feed? This just MADE MY DAY and I have been so depressed 😭
Debbie Troyer Stone 5 years ago
Awesome news!! Praying that many more females will be born for sure......
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
WOW, great news, I actually feel sick when more news says, more species are in danger !!!
Lou Lou Woodbury 5 years ago
This is a beautiful surprise and may the following generations have great patience.
Margareth Su 5 years ago
I watched the documentary on the people who tried to get the two to meet and mate. It was so hard and even dangerous because they had to be EXTREMELY careful, climbed hills, and spent years for this.
Otilia Penczak 5 years ago
It’s very important for us start listening to good news, so when we share conversation in social gatherings we share the good news too.... I love this initiative
Diana Hockley 5 years ago
That is so good. Perhaps this might save the species that we humans have destroyed.
ChaiDai 5 years ago
I wonder if future generations will suffer from the inbreeding, not being able to eliminate genetic defects. Such as some pedigree dogs.
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
I would imagine that they are being careful about this issue.
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PhotoJenic12 5 years ago
And then some privileged white man will pay thousands of dollars to be allowed to shoot one.
Bill 5 years ago
Sanctioned hunts do more for conservation than you do. When was the last time you gave $10k to save the Rhinos?
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Danielle Holder 5 years ago
They still haven't been able to stop the murdering of rhinos, but want to waste the last chance?!? How about save them until humans aren't such POS'!!
John 5 years ago
Yes they will. This saves the species for like 2 generations. Tops.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I am so happy for their victory, but just find it bonkers that an indigenous tribe had to fight a legal battle to protect their land in the first place.
I think there are many reasons why negative news is dominating the media. It's like a sudden disaster a, it's more compelling than, for example, little improvements. Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren’t built in a day, and as they unfold, they're out of sync with the news cycle.
As humans, we have this thing called “negative bias” that make us respond quicker to bad or dangerous situations. Nowadays, this bias is getting in the way of our happiness and well-being, and even our productivity because most of the narrative surrounding us (print, online or mobile) is that the “world is ending".
I think we should find a balance between negative and positive news. From politics to climate change and economy, negative and bad news surrounds us everywhere we go. A potential solution could be to limit the amount of bad news, basically slow down our personal news cycle, adding some positive news to our “news diet” to make sure that our outlook on the world is more optimistic. Also, it's very important to invest time to deal with misinformation and the reliability of news sources.
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Panda Kicki 5 years ago
Hm, I think Sweden must have forgot to apply then. We dont have stray dogs, at least for decades. Any lost dog gets collected, if no owner is found it gets adopted via Animal Protection. I have seen one or two lost dogs, where we found the owner, but never a genuine stray.
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L McN 5 years ago
SOOOO not against this! But....shouldn't it be equal pay for equal skill? (meaning, no race, gender, age, or any discrimination at all!) If you have more skill in the task, you get paid more, if you have less you get paid less. Plain and simple (yet I know it is more difficult to prove wrong-doing that way too)
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Jon Garrett 5 years ago
Nairobi has a baby elephant orphanage. So I guess not. Of course, if they are brought up in the orphanage, which is by Nairobi National Park, then they are not sold to a zoo or circus.
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Juliana Kessler 5 years ago
This is definitely a good thing, but be careful to remember that fortnite is known for an especially toxic crunch culture. Employees are expected to work insane hours with no pay. Planting forests is good, but he should also be held responsible for the unfair and harmful working conditions his company creates.
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arjelio mas 5 years ago
The rabid, right-wingers still spewing their nonsense that renewables will drive prices up so high no one will be able to have electricity will not be noticing this development. The belief disconfirmation paradigm is too powerful for some people to overcome.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Glad to see them come back. Sad that they died out there in the first place.
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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
This is nice, but it would be better if children being educated wasn’t contingent on their parents paying any sort of fee.
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Alethia Nyx 5 years ago
*one of mathematics most prestigious awards. The Abel prize for mathematics. The most prestigious is the fields medal, was first (and so far only) won by a woman in 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani.
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M.J. 5 years ago
And I'm glad that I read it yesterday when there were over 100 posts and not just the 50 that are left now...
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Heidi Geary 5 years ago
Posts like these give me faith in humanity. Don't get me wrong, it's important to be informed about world issues, but it's nice to escape that every once in a while and know how far we've come.
Martha Spurlock 5 years ago
Life is calmer when people take care of their little spheres in the world and stop obsessing about the whole world. People who mire themselves in the world's problems start to see people as the enemy.
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John Louis 5 years ago
WOW!!!! This may be the best boredpanda post EVER!!!! Boredpanda needs to post more like this.
Liana Seath 5 years ago
Thank you. I really needed this. My faith in this world and humanity has been at an all time low lately. We all could do with more good news in the world.
Devin Robinson 5 years ago (edited)
quick share these for when they suddenly don't exist anymore
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
When BP shortens a story, you can still access the full version using the link at bottom.
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Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
This is a great post and many of these are amazing things, the problem is that the more we keep people alive and the longer they live the bigger the population gets which isn't sustainable. So it's a double edged sword. It's a catch-22.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
Really fun, informative, and feel-good post. Needed this today.
Kim Keller 5 years ago
Thank you, these are great. I would love to have each meme linked to a reliable source so I can happily spread them around with the source link! What you think??
Victor Sant'Anna 5 years ago
Thank you very much to make me happy today! Btw, #39 and #46 are the same...
Nia Mukasa 4 years ago
It's good to see someone wanting to spread good news! Sad that so many people had to add negative comments to many of them, kinda missed the point didn't they?
Harika Suri 4 years ago
This is the most amazing post I read in the last few years!! Thank you for gathering such valuable content and making such beautiful, interesting illustrations!! Love the way each pic is designed. Please make it a video and I'm sure many will watch it.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
What about stop complaining about bad news, and get to work to fix what's bad in the world; then, there would be only good news to report. Get involved.
sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago
Thanks Bored Panda, much good news, also, great information !!!
Matt Hanrath 4 years ago
I think a balance is better. Transparency reduces corruption. Confidentiality "divides and conquers" unity in humanity. All CULTures reduce free thinking and truer happiness. Imagine developmentally disabled having equal power and wealth to intellectuals.
JoAnne Silvia 4 years ago
When I read these good news headlines, it helps me realize that we are making progress. Yes, there's a lot of bad news in the world, but good news is just as plentiful when we look for it. Good news is healing. I'm sharing this on all my social media pages!
Anne-Marie Costa 4 years ago
Lifted me ... made me smile. Thank you for sharing such great news.
Jude Devantier 4 years ago
Best news I've read in a long time. Thank you this has given me hope for the future and made me happy.
Yippee Ya Yay 4 years ago
Love the illustrations and news they represent. Would like to have a link to the original news story for reference plz
Denise Ward 4 years ago
Thank you Mario. A good effort was put into this and it was very interesting. Just a pity our world is so distorted that these things happen once in a blue moon. We can have the world be mostly fantastic and turn things around. But we have to withdraw from bank issued money. This is imperative if we want peace in the world and in our lives because banksters will bleed you dry. Yes even you.
Mary Elizabeth 5 years ago
Awesome post -- I agree that there's WAY too much negative bias on the internet. One of my favorite pieces of "good news" from this year is that the European Investment Bank, the world's largest multilateral lender, recently announced that it will stop funding fossil fuel projects by 2021 and divert those funds to renewables instead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-europe-eib-idUSKBN1XO2OS
Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago
I love it, now this should inspire all countries to follow, not just one!
Ruke Onemu 5 years ago
Thank you! If we keep this up maybe the future generations will actually have a planet
Cristian Cojocaru 5 years ago
There's been a ton of great news lately though, communists got BTFO'd in a lot of western countries, the US economy is doing great, brexit is finally going to go through without impedance. Overall SJW's are losing and the people are regaining some of their power.
Lynnda Frishof 5 years ago
This made me feel good!! I do wish I hadn't read some of the comments though. Just be happy with the good stuff!!
Margaret Genever 5 years ago
That was a tonic. I am going to save it to look at when I get down about the state of the planet.
Caitlin Jones 5 years ago
This should be printed and bound into a children’s book annually! I would totally buy it for my nieces and nephews
James Moran 5 years ago
Reading this just made me feel sadder! How can homo sapiens have developed so much technology and yet remain so stupid! So sad...
Sylvie Troquet 5 years ago
Thank you sooooo much. I bet there are plenty more of these positive news. If we could concentrate on those instead of bad news, scandals, fake news and all the bs we are exposed to everyday, the world would be a better place. I applaud your dedication.
Lynette Nay- Mullen 5 years ago
This was ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. Thank you so much for taking the time to put together and share this positive news with the rest of us.
Abinico Arts 5 years ago
Nice list of happy events except don't see why Taiwan would be happy about joining the morally depraved countries that support homosexuality.
Myxomatosis 5 years ago
I have been plagued with depression for weeks. Blah. I cry every morning. This morning, it was finally about something good. Thanks Bored Panda for making this the top story in my email.
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
When you are bombarded with stories of decline, loss, and hopelessness it is easy to think "Why bother" - this is why we should bother! Perhaps the news channels should take a leaf out of Mauro Gatti's post and throw us a sucess story once and a while. Thank you
Oscar Guerrero 5 years ago
I've been reading a lot of pessimistic stuff lately, so this really helped me out. Thanks. :)
Mary Huber 5 years ago
Love these happy, good-news stories; keep them coming to preserve our sanity!
Patricia Flora 5 years ago
Thank you for Real life giving News Strange to Feel so starved Overwhelmingly Grateful for a glimpse of life giving World issues included in the news For the eyes ask us to consider: the addiction to trauma can be Starving this species Reading what feeds us life may be more critical to survival than Tracking the enemy.
Laana 5 years ago
3 things to say! 1. All of this is magnificent! Bravo to all 😊👏🏻 2. It’s so sad to see the differences between parts of the world-some make fake islands for flora and fauna while some are getting electricity. 3. People are awful. To even come to this state,to destroy everything on their way... In any case,kudos for all the positivity here 😊
J. Normal 5 years ago
I am sad to see the us very low on the list of contributions. We as a people need to start to fight again for the rights of our children, grandchildren, etc. We expect them to respect us, when we do not have any respect ourselves. Let us make 2020 a year where there is more good news than bad.
Maggie Boogaart Choreographer 5 years ago
Fantastic !!! Thank you for this very welcome GOOD NEWS ✨⭐️🌟💛 I love positive movements !!! Signed: a Dutch artist living in the midst of the frequent strikes in Paris.
Jocelyn MacDonald 5 years ago
This gives us all hope and inspiration to make a difference. Thank you. Plus the drawings are so adorable. Had a smile on my face the whole time while reading the piece!
Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Thanks. I sometimes think networks, including weather channels, search out the most Godawful stuff they can find. A little "fair and balanced" would be nice . This helps.
Michelle LAVAL 5 years ago
LOAN BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS ONLINE FREE OF CHARGE A VERY DYNAMIC TEAM TO THE TASK. Need I say more a hand to quit a financial stalemate that has lasted for a while because of your bank's refusal for a loan or financing, no problem even if you are stuck in your country and do not have access to financing leave an email : greniernathalie1@yahoo.com * Financial * Real estate loans * Investment loans. Ps: Know that we work to your satisfaction, you can follow your file to know its evolution.
M.J. 5 years ago
And I'm glad that I read it yesterday when there were over 100 posts and not just the 50 that are left now...
Load More Replies... Heidi Geary 5 years ago
Posts like these give me faith in humanity. Don't get me wrong, it's important to be informed about world issues, but it's nice to escape that every once in a while and know how far we've come.
Martha Spurlock 5 years ago
Life is calmer when people take care of their little spheres in the world and stop obsessing about the whole world. People who mire themselves in the world's problems start to see people as the enemy.
Load More Replies... John Louis 5 years ago
WOW!!!! This may be the best boredpanda post EVER!!!! Boredpanda needs to post more like this.
Liana Seath 5 years ago
Thank you. I really needed this. My faith in this world and humanity has been at an all time low lately. We all could do with more good news in the world.
Devin Robinson 5 years ago (edited)
quick share these for when they suddenly don't exist anymore
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
When BP shortens a story, you can still access the full version using the link at bottom.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
This is a great post and many of these are amazing things, the problem is that the more we keep people alive and the longer they live the bigger the population gets which isn't sustainable. So it's a double edged sword. It's a catch-22.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
Really fun, informative, and feel-good post. Needed this today.
Kim Keller 5 years ago
Thank you, these are great. I would love to have each meme linked to a reliable source so I can happily spread them around with the source link! What you think??
Victor Sant'Anna 5 years ago
Thank you very much to make me happy today! Btw, #39 and #46 are the same...
Nia Mukasa 4 years ago
It's good to see someone wanting to spread good news! Sad that so many people had to add negative comments to many of them, kinda missed the point didn't they?
Harika Suri 4 years ago
This is the most amazing post I read in the last few years!! Thank you for gathering such valuable content and making such beautiful, interesting illustrations!! Love the way each pic is designed. Please make it a video and I'm sure many will watch it.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
What about stop complaining about bad news, and get to work to fix what's bad in the world; then, there would be only good news to report. Get involved.
sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago
Thanks Bored Panda, much good news, also, great information !!!
Matt Hanrath 4 years ago
I think a balance is better. Transparency reduces corruption. Confidentiality "divides and conquers" unity in humanity. All CULTures reduce free thinking and truer happiness. Imagine developmentally disabled having equal power and wealth to intellectuals.
JoAnne Silvia 4 years ago
When I read these good news headlines, it helps me realize that we are making progress. Yes, there's a lot of bad news in the world, but good news is just as plentiful when we look for it. Good news is healing. I'm sharing this on all my social media pages!
Anne-Marie Costa 4 years ago
Lifted me ... made me smile. Thank you for sharing such great news.
Jude Devantier 4 years ago
Best news I've read in a long time. Thank you this has given me hope for the future and made me happy.
Yippee Ya Yay 4 years ago
Love the illustrations and news they represent. Would like to have a link to the original news story for reference plz
Denise Ward 4 years ago
Thank you Mario. A good effort was put into this and it was very interesting. Just a pity our world is so distorted that these things happen once in a blue moon. We can have the world be mostly fantastic and turn things around. But we have to withdraw from bank issued money. This is imperative if we want peace in the world and in our lives because banksters will bleed you dry. Yes even you.
Mary Elizabeth 5 years ago
Awesome post -- I agree that there's WAY too much negative bias on the internet. One of my favorite pieces of "good news" from this year is that the European Investment Bank, the world's largest multilateral lender, recently announced that it will stop funding fossil fuel projects by 2021 and divert those funds to renewables instead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-europe-eib-idUSKBN1XO2OS
Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago
I love it, now this should inspire all countries to follow, not just one!
Ruke Onemu 5 years ago
Thank you! If we keep this up maybe the future generations will actually have a planet
Cristian Cojocaru 5 years ago
There's been a ton of great news lately though, communists got BTFO'd in a lot of western countries, the US economy is doing great, brexit is finally going to go through without impedance. Overall SJW's are losing and the people are regaining some of their power.
Lynnda Frishof 5 years ago
This made me feel good!! I do wish I hadn't read some of the comments though. Just be happy with the good stuff!!
Margaret Genever 5 years ago
That was a tonic. I am going to save it to look at when I get down about the state of the planet.
Caitlin Jones 5 years ago
This should be printed and bound into a children’s book annually! I would totally buy it for my nieces and nephews
James Moran 5 years ago
Reading this just made me feel sadder! How can homo sapiens have developed so much technology and yet remain so stupid! So sad...
Sylvie Troquet 5 years ago
Thank you sooooo much. I bet there are plenty more of these positive news. If we could concentrate on those instead of bad news, scandals, fake news and all the bs we are exposed to everyday, the world would be a better place. I applaud your dedication.
Lynette Nay- Mullen 5 years ago
This was ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. Thank you so much for taking the time to put together and share this positive news with the rest of us.
Abinico Arts 5 years ago
Nice list of happy events except don't see why Taiwan would be happy about joining the morally depraved countries that support homosexuality.
Myxomatosis 5 years ago
I have been plagued with depression for weeks. Blah. I cry every morning. This morning, it was finally about something good. Thanks Bored Panda for making this the top story in my email.
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
When you are bombarded with stories of decline, loss, and hopelessness it is easy to think "Why bother" - this is why we should bother! Perhaps the news channels should take a leaf out of Mauro Gatti's post and throw us a sucess story once and a while. Thank you
Oscar Guerrero 5 years ago
I've been reading a lot of pessimistic stuff lately, so this really helped me out. Thanks. :)
Mary Huber 5 years ago
Love these happy, good-news stories; keep them coming to preserve our sanity!
Patricia Flora 5 years ago
Thank you for Real life giving News Strange to Feel so starved Overwhelmingly Grateful for a glimpse of life giving World issues included in the news For the eyes ask us to consider: the addiction to trauma can be Starving this species Reading what feeds us life may be more critical to survival than Tracking the enemy.
Laana 5 years ago
3 things to say! 1. All of this is magnificent! Bravo to all 😊👏🏻 2. It’s so sad to see the differences between parts of the world-some make fake islands for flora and fauna while some are getting electricity. 3. People are awful. To even come to this state,to destroy everything on their way... In any case,kudos for all the positivity here 😊
J. Normal 5 years ago
I am sad to see the us very low on the list of contributions. We as a people need to start to fight again for the rights of our children, grandchildren, etc. We expect them to respect us, when we do not have any respect ourselves. Let us make 2020 a year where there is more good news than bad.
Maggie Boogaart Choreographer 5 years ago
Fantastic !!! Thank you for this very welcome GOOD NEWS ✨⭐️🌟💛 I love positive movements !!! Signed: a Dutch artist living in the midst of the frequent strikes in Paris.
Jocelyn MacDonald 5 years ago
This gives us all hope and inspiration to make a difference. Thank you. Plus the drawings are so adorable. Had a smile on my face the whole time while reading the piece!
Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Thanks. I sometimes think networks, including weather channels, search out the most Godawful stuff they can find. A little "fair and balanced" would be nice . This helps.
Michelle LAVAL 5 years ago
LOAN BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS ONLINE FREE OF CHARGE A VERY DYNAMIC TEAM TO THE TASK. Need I say more a hand to quit a financial stalemate that has lasted for a while because of your bank's refusal for a loan or financing, no problem even if you are stuck in your country and do not have access to financing leave an email : greniernathalie1@yahoo.com * Financial * Real estate loans * Investment loans. Ps: Know that we work to your satisfaction, you can follow your file to know its evolution.
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