On October 18, the Biden administration unveiled the landmark Barbados agreement signed in conjunction with the Venezuelan government and opposition. The agreement authorises six-month licenses for oil and gas transactions, dealings with Venezuela’s state-run gold mining firm, Minerven...
The weather so far in Brazil has been anything but normal in most areas. Across the central and north, it has been awfully hot and dry compared to normal. Even the wetter conditions of late have been average at best. For southern Brazil, it has been too wet, causing flooding and...
The famously Freudian Dr Frasier Crane may have brought psychoanalysis over the airwaves to the masses in the seminal 1990s comedy in which he constantly spars with his Jungian brother, Niles. But half a century before him, a real-life Brazilian Frasier was doing much the same. Sigmund...
Former US President Donald Trump has once again used inflammatory and divisive language to attack immigrants and his political opponents. Speaking at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire, on Saturday, he repeated his claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”, a phrase...
A legal challenge against Guatemala’s election of an anti-corruption leader has been called an “attempted coup” by international organisations. Bernardo Arévalo is due to take office as president in January – but on Friday, the country’s prosecutor’s...
