Rafael Grossi, Argentina’s candidate for the next secretary-general of the United Nations, outlined a bold reformist vision for the multilateral organisation on Monday night as President Javier Milei’s government formally threw its... Read more »

Argentine businesses and investors are paying a premium to stock up on dollars in a creative effort to sidestep President Javier Milei’s currency controls. Although individuals face fewer restrictions today, companies still... Read more »

  Budget on the way The 2026 Budget was given first reading in the Congress of Deputies by a 132-97 vote late Wednesday while in the Senate earlier in the day La... Read more »

Hundreds of Colombian ex-soldiers have been drawn to Sudan with the promise of bumper Emirati paychecks. What many found instead was death in a faraway war marked by mass killing, rape, famine... Read more »

Tiempos Circulares is the cryptic title of the film and “Nuestra venganza es ser felices” (“Our revenge is to be happy”) the accompanying message but the latter is also slightly meretricious –... Read more »

With third time lucky for Chile’s José Antonio Kast last Sunday, South America’s political map vaguely evokes the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) over five centuries ago with a diagonal line crisscrossing the... Read more »

The coming quarter will define the rest of Javier Milei’s administration. The President is enjoying a second political honeymoon after his unexpectedly large victory in the October midterms and both Argentines and... Read more »

More than 30 years have gone by since the North American academic Samuel R. Huntington, who died in 2008, wrote ‘The Clash of Civilisations’ for Foreign Affairs. He then expanded the article... Read more »

As the European Union struggles to complete a trade deal with Mercosur, competitors eyeing South America’s consumer market and vast mineral resources are taking note. Spurred by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs,... Read more »