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
At 10:50 a.m., a large convoy of vehicles sped through the main gate of the Government Palace’s courtyard under heavy security. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped out of one of
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Eight months after the United States began its oil blockade of Cuba, the island is increasingly marked by scenes of stark economic contrast. In Havana, solar panels illuminate businesses during blackouts, electric
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Venezuela is emerging as a major testing ground for US President Donald Trump’s ambitions in the Western Hemisphere and a potential new arena of rivalry with China. After announcing plans to seize
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The double earthquake on June 24 and recent torrential rains in Caracas have reopened an old wound in Venezuela: the plight of families who have spent years waiting for state-provided housing while
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Argentine President Javier Milei has announced plans to establish a military base as Buenos Aires takes a tougher position in its longstanding dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands. Milei also threatened
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More than six decades after Fidel Castro declared education one of the central pillars of the Cuban Revolution, the country’s schools have opened for a new academic year under conditions the Government
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Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful
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An unprecedented agreement giving the United States access to a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves, and the central role assigned to Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, are prompting questions and hesitation among some
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In Minaçu, in the northern part of the Brazilian state of Goiás, the landscape bears the scars of an earlier mineral rush. For decades, the town depended on the Cana Brava asbestos
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On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to the business elite by blaming the ‘little green scarves’ and
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Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered the immediate launch of police operations to identify and deport irregular migrants, signalling a dramatic shift in the country’s approach to migration after more
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On Wednesday, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a think tank linked to the administration of US President Donald Trump, published a report recommending the re-establishment of a permanent US military presence
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More than 30 tonnes of Venezuelan gold held at the Bank of England could become a crucial bargaining tool in negotiations between the Venezuelan government and opposition, as the United States seeks
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Venezuela’s government made no demand for the release of former president Nicolás Maduro during nearly two weeks of negotiations with the opposition this month, in what the Financial Times described as the
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The truth is that I had promised myself I would avoid the temptation to analyze the statements and behavior of Argentina’s President Milei. The reason: to keep myself as far away as
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