Corruption continues to make headlines in Latin America. From a scheme to shelter assets leaked by documents in Panama, to the Petrobras and Odebrecht scandals that have spread beyond Brazil, to...
President Trump deserves credit for denouncing the regimes of Venezuela and Cuba in his first speech to the United Nations. But his message will come across as contradictory amid a “Trump...
Using the past as a guide, regional powers must control the situation before outside powers try to.
Over the last two decades, the now-deceased Hugo Chavez and his handpicked successor, President Nicolas Maduro, have wreaked havoc in Venezuela. Socialist economic policies and government corruption...
China's emphasis on "knowledge cooperation" could lead to a reframing of its approach to both Cuba and Latin America.
In a global oil market mired in excess inventory and low expectations, Venezuela is the most tangible of wildcards. Its tragic and volatile mix of a failing, oil-dependent economy, political gridlock...
Venezuela's multi-year economic crisis produces grim stories of scarcity and suffering month after month. Still, new data capturing the woes of the once well-heeled South American nation is...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to South America was described as aimed at attending the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Río de Janeiro, but he is likely to meet with...
Even as Venezuela sinks into chaos, with clashes between protesters and the police escalating, why have its powerful political and military elites stuck by President Nicolás Maduro?
Though Brazil's 2010 boom was part of a short-lived emerging economies bubble, things were still looking up for Brazil as recently as 2014, when Lula da Silva's hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff,...
Following years of rumors, and its initial showing during a military parade in Moscow last year, Russia's newest battle tank, the Armata, continues to make headlines.
With the Latin American economy as a whole shrinking for the first time since 2009, the continent could use some economic good news. Yet the fate of past market darlings should give pause to...
Drug legalization in a Latin American country could lead to a domino effect that eventually pushes developed countries like the US to relax their anti-drug laws.
