Driving and deliveries: Plan B for professionals and pensioners

Argentina, like much of the world, is undergoing a process of job redefinition. Transport and delivery platforms like Uber and Rappi, previously linked mainly to the informally employed and those without a... Read more »

Amid logistics crunch, UN committee pressures Brazil for urgent COP30 solutions

A United Nations climate committee has given Brazil, the host nation for COP30, a mid-August deadline to find concrete solutions for accommodation challenges in the Amazon city of Belém, as calls grow... Read more »

Vernon, California: The company town where Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj was killed

Looking south on Soto Street in Vernon, California, an industrial enclave just outside downtown Los Angeles. [Photo by Downtowngal/Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0] On July 13, 19-year-old Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu... Read more »

Argentina’s kids in food crisis: third of children suffering serious hardships

Food insecurity affecting the country’s children and adolescents is a structural problem observed in the current economic cycle, according to a new report.  The study, based on data collected by UCA Catholic... Read more »

‘Classic tinpot dictator’: Trump exports his assault on democracy to Brazil | Donald Trump

Over the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the region’s second... Read more »

President Dina Boluarte slams court’s call to suspend Peru’s amnesty law | Human Rights News

President Dina Boluarte has blasted the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for its opposition to a recently passed bill that would grant amnesty to soldiers, police officers and other security personnel involved... Read more »

In whose interest is interest?

For the Javier Milei libertarian administration the bottom line is very plainly a fiscal surplus but for most economists it is almost invariably growth. The upcoming midterms seem to reinforce rather than... Read more »

Trump talks with Canada, India, and Brazil in a stalemate as his tariff deadline looms

President Trump’s tariff agenda is nearing a moment of truth with an Aug. 1 deadline just a few hours away and set to establish a new baseline rate of at least 15%... Read more »

Syria threatened with carve up as redivision of Middle East draws closer

Last December, the US—and its regional allies—celebrated the rout of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the hands of al-Qaeda offshoot and US-designated foreign terrorist organisation Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Its jihadist... Read more »

Milei assets | Buenos Aires Times

Javier Milei and his sister Karina have presented their sworn statements to the Anti-Corruption Office. The President informed a total fortune of 206,046,375 pesos and the presidential chief-of-staff 11,401,021.93 pesos. In comparison with... Read more »