The giant bones wedged into the sand give this corner of Península Valdés the atmosphere of an alien planet: rib-cages over two metres long, buried like lampposts, tilted into an arch. The... Read more »
Image: GAlexS/shutterstock.com Is Trump’s tariff policy slowing down the BRICS, or is the alliance losing momentum due to the heterogeneity of its member countries? Just in time for the 17th BRICS Summit... Read more »
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, January 3, 2024. [Photo: @Teamsters] The leadership of the Teamsters union recently hired Peter Cytanovic, a known neo-Nazi who participated prominently in the... Read more »
A United States court has ordered Argentina to hand over 51 percent of YPF shares to the beneficiaries of the ruling against the company’s 2012 expropriation by then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In... Read more »
Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has partnered with Tether, the issuer of the widely used stablecoin USD₮, to advance cryptocurrency adoption in Brazil. The collaboration, announced in July... Read more »
The carmaker joins Stellantis and GM in reporting hits to their profits as tariffs drive up costs for the industry. Volkswagen has reported $1.5bn in losses in the first half of the... Read more »
YPF BOMBSHELL Last Monday Manhattan judge Loretta Preska ordered Argentina to hand over 51 percent of YPF shares within the next fortnight to the hedge funds Eton Park and Burford, plaintiffs... Read more »
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Brazil reflect a larger conflict over the U.S. dollar, Mexico City officials respond to... Read more »
Chile’s Atacama desert is one of the driest places on Earth, a surprisingly cool environment, sucked clean of moisture by the cold ocean to the west. This arid, golden landscape is home... Read more »
Manhattan judge Loretta Preska’s controversial ruling setting a fuse of a fortnight on the US$16-billion time-bomb compensating speculative interests for the nationalisation of YPF oil company with its shares needs to be... Read more »