Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to the US border
On the Mexican side of the border that runs between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, a dozen soldiers stand guard. They ...
Javier Milei’s crypto misadventure
Javier Milei is facing his presidency’s first big scandal. On February 14th he posted on X, a social-media service, in praise...
An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship
Towards the end of “I’m Still Here”, a Brazilian film set during the country’s military dictatorship, a photographer tells hi...
Argentina’s Javier Milei is betting big on an oil gusher
IN A DUSTY desert in north-west Patagonia, a hulking rig is busy drilling. After plunging 3km underground, its drill turns an...
Javier Milei is betting big on an Argentine oil gusher
IN A DUSTY desert in north-west Patagonia, a hulking rig is busy drilling. After plunging 3km underground, its drill turns an...
Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers
Many Argentines sip mate daily. The brewed, bitter drink is made by infusing leaves of the yerba mate plant, a relative of ho...
Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States
Esther Hernández fled Venezuela to Colombia in 2017 with her husband, three daughters and a sewing machine. Her voice cracks ...
Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult”
Officials in Guatemala are dealing with a strange situation. They have seized about 140 children from Lev Tahor, a fringe Jew...
Ecuador chooses a leader amid murder, blackouts and stagnation
Running Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America. Drou...
How Mexico and Canada handled Trump’s tariff threat
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, beamed as she announced on February 3rd that Donald Trump had agreed to delay imposing...