The Gran Chaco, South America’s second-largest forest after the Amazon, has been steadily replaced by croplands and cattle ranches for decades. Now, the semiarid lowland faces a new threat: the Bioceanic Corridor mega-highway that cuts through the Chaco to connect Chile and Brazil via...
The recent ‘Qatargate’ scandal in the European Parliament, which has seen MEPs & at least one former former MEP languishing in Belgian jail cells, has re-opened another serious issue – one that is institutionalised in Brussels – that of the “fake...
International migration has taken center stage in the policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. Virtually all countries of the region are participants in migration cycles, be they countries of origin, destination, return or transit. According to United Nations estimates, in 2020...
Migrants and refugees in South America with a diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression or sexual characteristics (SOGIESC) usually face a series of differentiated difficulties in their migratory processes that place them in a situation of greater vulnerability...
Libya’s state-owned oil company, the National Oil Corporation (NOC), had established last month a new program office, but multiple foreign press reports claim that one of the staff running the office is embroiled in a major fraud case in Kazakhstan. Peter Sztyk, a Canadian lawyer and...
