Since Jair Bolsonaro lost Brazil’s presidency four years ago, he has been barred from running again and jailed for plotting a coup, yet his eldest…
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Javier Milei is an unlikely champion of Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who…
In February 2025, Argentinian President Javier Milei presented American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk with a chainsaw at the Conservative Political…
On 29 July 2026, Anthony Fauci returned to Capitol Hill in circumstances strikingly different from those in which he became known. For many, Fauci…
For two decades, China’s growing presence in Latin America was largely understood through commodities, trade, and sovereign lending. Today, that…
At his Senate confirmation hearing for the post of Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Jay Clayton confronted a line of questioning that reached…
When James David Vance emerged as one of the Trump administration’s principal advocates of negotiations with Iran in July 2026, the dispute…
Peru has become one of South America’s clearest political contradictions. Presidents fall, parties fragment, voters withdraw, and Congress repeatedly…
A US Supreme Court ruling last week revives multi-million-dollar Cuba compensation claims against cruise giants, reopening one of the oldest wounds…
Cuba’s quieter Castro brother, Raúl, built the military and institutional architecture that allowed the revolution to outlast charisma, crisis, and…
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