... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
“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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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