‘Davos of Latin America’ tests Lula’s regional clout

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to power vowing to revive South American political and economic unity. A regional event this week shows he’s now fighting to maintain clout in his... Read more »

Local Lender, Big Moves – What The Market Is Really Pricing In

BRB Banco de Brasília’s stock has been quietly rewriting its own script, with sharp swings, thin coverage from global houses, and a valuation that looks wildly different depending on the time frame... Read more »

No pills for leaders | Buenos Aires Times

Highlighting in 2013 the evident behaviours and opinions expressed by the then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine physician and journalist Nelson Castro aptly warned us about the “Hubris Syndrome.” This syndrome is... Read more »

Four-time Oscar nominee The Secret Agent: Filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho on art and politics

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho said scriptwriting is the hardest part of the process. It’s an exercise in deep immersion but it’s lonely. When it he showed the first 15 pages of... Read more »

Milei spurns Techint billionaire Rocca as Indian firm wins pipeline bid

A flagship pipeline project championed by Javier Milei’s administration chose a foreign supplier over a local giant run by one of Argentina’s richest men in a test of the President’s free-market vision... Read more »

Flavio Bolsonaro pledges Jerusalem embassy if elected

Flavio Bolsonaro did not walk into the “Generation of Truth” antisemitism conference like a visiting senator. He walked in like a president. His entourage was huge. Security pressed the crowd back, aides... Read more »

Argentina scraps film classification regime after 40 years, adopts US norms

No more “ATP” films or over-16s – Argentina’s film classification system has just been changed. Decree 50/2026, published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette and signed by President Javier Milei and Cabinet... Read more »

Stocks and fluxes of carbon and nitrogen in northeastern Brazil coastal seascapes

Mcleod, E. et al. A blueprint for blue carbon: Toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2. Front. Ecol. Environ. 9(10), 552–60 (2011). Article  Google Scholar ... Read more »

Only Trump superfans come onboard for ‘Board of Peace’ signing in Davos

A voice off-stage boomed “Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace!” and Donald Trump entered the same hall in Davos where he addressed the world’s elite just a day earlier.... Read more »

‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop | Argentina

Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign... Read more »