For years, Venezuela’s government suppressed its own economic data. Inflation figures, GDP numbers, monetary aggregates — all state secrets. Under Washington’s post-Maduro oversight framework, the Central Bank of Venezuela has begun publishing again, and numbers are not pretty
Hundreds of billions of dollars flow from the U.S. to Honduras, Guatemala, & El Salvador every year. For millions of families, that money is not supplemental income — it is the economy. The question now is how durable those flows are
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For years, Venezuela’s government suppressed its own economic data. Inflation figures, GDP numbers, monetary aggregates — all state secrets. Under Washington’s post-Maduro oversight framework, the Central Bank of Venezuela has begun publishing again, and numbers are not pretty
Halted oil imports, a peso in freefall, and shelves that have been empty for years. Cuba’s economic crisis is not new — but it is deepening
Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy names Western Hemisphere as primary theater of U.S. national security. It says Washington will act against cartels with or without local governments’ cooperation
U.S. Justice Department charges Sinaloa’s sitting governor with conspiring with Los Chapitos to flood the United States with fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. Nine other current & former officials are charged alongside him. One allegedly murdered a DEA source
Washington & Tehran agreed to stop shooting at each other on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, Israel launched strikes on Beirut. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed. Islamabad talks begin Saturday. This is where things stand
Argentina arrives at the World Cup as defending champions — and without one of its most promising young players for the first two matches, banned for what he said to Vinicius Jr.
Brazil’s October election is already one of the most consequential in the hemisphere. An 80-year-old president with two brain surgeries is running for an unprecedented fourth term. His opponent carries his father’s name and his father’s movement. And Washington is already inside the campaign
Washington’s indictment of Sinaloa’s governor forced him from office in four days — and cost him the immunity that kept U.S. prosecutors at arm’s length
Foreign Correspondent based in Latin America; Executive Editor at Sociedad Media
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