The United States formally warned South Africa against pushing for a joint statement at this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg that the Trump administration is boycotting, according to a document... Read more »

Hedge funds that wagered big on Argentina in recent months notched bumper gains in October after a US rescue package and a resounding win for President Javier Milei’s party in midterm elections... Read more »

The reasons why South Americans are electing right-wing candidates this year differ in each country: Empty fuel tanks and scarce dollars in Bolivia, chronic economic crises in Argentina, fears over runaway migration... Read more »

Julieta Makintach, the disgraced judge who caused a mistrial in the negligence case against the medical team in whose care football legend Diego Maradona died in 2020, has been removed from her... Read more »

A consensus-driven communist and a far-right law-and-order candidate vowing mass migrant deportations will duel for president of Chile after topping a first round of voting on Sunday.  Left-wing presidential finalist Jeannette Jara... Read more »

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, has again expressed strong admiration for Javier Milei, calling Argentina’s president a “fearless” reformer taking “bold action” to revive his country’s economy. Speaking... Read more »

I f President Javier Milei hit the ground running upon taking office two years ago, the current lame duck Congress seems almost to be leading to a lame duck government now that... Read more »

No innovations of consequence in the past week – markets are exuberantly calm with country risk in full retreat while the centralisation of power is being consolidated, contrary to advice to broaden... Read more »

A jury in Resistencia has found six of the seven people accused in the high-profile femicide of 28-year-old Cecilia Strzyzowski guilty, including the leading members of the so-called ‘Sena Clan,’ whose political... Read more »