Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
Argentina is facing a mounting financial crisis as President Javier Milei battles an unprecedented run on the peso fueled by highly inventive local currency traders. According to a report in the Financial
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Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in The Conversation. We are republishing it as part of our syndication with them. The lights went out in Cuba again. For the fifth time in a year,
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In the small Brazilian town of Belém do Solimões, community activist Josiane Otaviano Guilherme points to a cluster of huts where crack cocaine is openly sold. “It’s like a kind of street
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On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking to the United States with being blown “out of existence”. This statement,
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC President Donald Trump is preparing to formally declare a military intervention in Venezuela under the pretext of targeting drug cartels, according to multiple senior officials in
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Editor’s Note: The following column is based on excerpts from the latest issue of the CTC Sentinel, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The United States has confronted the
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The United States is in talks to establish a $20 billion swap line with Argentina and is prepared to purchase the country’s dollar bonds, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday. The
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The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their
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A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up.
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Former President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after Brazil’s Supreme Court found him guilty of orchestrating a coup to cling to power following his
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When I was in graduate school, I audited a class taught by Friedrich Katz (1927–2010), one of the great historians of Mexico of his generation. During the Second World War, Katz’s father
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The arrest of multiple Mexican Navy officers this week in connection with an alleged billion-dollar fuel-smuggling operation has sent shockwaves through one of the country’s most trusted institutions, raising concerns about corruption
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Mexico is preparing to raise tariffs on goods imported from countries that are not covered by free trade agreements, while ensuring that the duties remain compliant with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules,
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Anglo American Plc is in advanced talks to acquire Canada’s Teck Resources Ltd., in what could become the largest mining deal in more than a decade, just over a year after Anglo
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Newly declassified documents from the John F. Kennedy assassination records, released earlier this year and compiled by the National Security Archive, have unveiled a trove of covert CIA operations in Colombia during
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