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    Argentina Reinstates "State of Seige" After President's Resignation

    Dec 21, 2001 06:00 PM EDT

    ... unemployment rate. The latest crisis started when the De la Rua government failed to procure an emergency $1.3 billion loan from the IMF that Argentina needs in order to meet its next debt payment. If Argentina fails to garner more hard currency and make its loan payments, Latin America ...

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    Argentina on the Brink

    Dec 21, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... MIGUEL DIAZ: Well, this play has yet to be played out completely, the story has yet to be played out completely. You still have to make very important decisions on the exchange rate regime in Argentina -- whether to dollarize or whether to devalue -- those are very important decisions that the ...

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    Argentine President Resigns, Yielding to Public Demands

    Dec 20, 2001 11:15 PM EDT

    ... s recession. Cavallo's deputy finance minister resigned last week after Cavallo failed to procure an emergency $1.3 billion loan from the IMF that Argentina needs in order to meet its next debt payment. If Argentina fails to garner more hard currency and make its loan payment, Latin America ...

  • Indigenous rights leader Brooklyn Rivera dies after nearly 3 years detained in Nicaragua

    Indigenous rights leader Brooklyn Rivera dies after nearly 3 years detained in Nicaragua

    May 31, 2026 07:34 PM EDT

    ... an American human rights lawyer and member of a group of U.N. experts on Nicaragua. “Unconscionable cynicism on the part of the government to make it seem like they were trying to help him.” The U.S. had called for his release on Friday after the Nicaraguan government published ...

  • ‘America First’ aid policy reshapes how U.S. delivers global health assistance

    ‘America First’ aid policy reshapes how U.S. delivers global health assistance

    Apr 23, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    ... improve the domestic infrastructure, health care infrastructure. Fred de Sam Lazaro: As part of that, Gilead Sciences has agreed to allow six generic drugmakers to make and sell lenacapavir in 120 low- and middle-income countries. Some estimates predict a potential cost as low as $20 per dose. However, the ...

  • Small comforts fade and big worries grow as fuel prices surge around the world

    Small comforts fade and big worries grow as fuel prices surge around the world

    Mar 23, 2026 09:39 PM EDT

    ... beach trip to celebrate his birthday next month is likely off. He couldn’t even afford his rent last month and wasn’t able to make the payment on his jeepney. If prices stay so high, Roño said, he’ll be forced to find new work. “I’ll stop driving ...

  • WATCH: Hegseth, Miller urge Latin American allies to be more aggressive against drug cartels

    WATCH: Hegseth, Miller urge Latin American allies to be more aggressive against drug cartels

    Mar 05, 2026 10:05 PM EDT

    ... defense officials from allied governments around the region. Hegseth spoke at what the Pentagon billed as the first “Americas Counter Cartel Conference,” with representatives from Argentina, Honduras and the Dominican Republic among more than a dozen conservative governments closely aligned with President Donald Trump. Most of the military leaders came ...

  • European Union and Mercosur bloc sign landmark free trade agreement

    European Union and Mercosur bloc sign landmark free trade agreement

    Jan 17, 2026 11:10 PM EDT

    “We will join forces like never before, because we believe that this is the best way to make our people and our countries prosper.” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a long-time advocate for the EU-Mercocsur deal as negotiations lumbered through his three nonconsecutive presidential terms ...

  • Delcy Rodríguez calls for opening oil industry to foreign investment and warmer US ties

    Delcy Rodríguez calls for opening oil industry to foreign investment and warmer US ties

    Jan 16, 2026 04:35 PM EDT

    ... the U.S. claims to call the shots. "It's a complete sea of uncertainty, and the only one who now has the power to make decisions is the United States government," said Pablo Rojas, 28, a music producer. He said he was following Trump's meeting with Machado closely ...

  • EU delays massive free-trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur amid farmer protests

    EU delays massive free-trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur amid farmer protests

    Dec 18, 2025 10:59 PM EDT

    ... to Beijing’s orbit,” she said. South America's agitation over the delays The political tensions that have marked Mercosur in recent years — especially between Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei and Brazil’s center-left Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bloc’s two main partners — have not ...