• 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 ...

  • WATCH: Trump proposes $12 billion farm aid package as farmers grapple with tariff pains

    WATCH: Trump proposes $12 billion farm aid package as farmers grapple with tariff pains

    Dec 08, 2025 07:04 PM EDT

    ... for some avenues to find other funding opportunities and we need to get our markets going. That’s where we want to be able to make a living from,” said Caleb Ragland, the Kentucky farmer who serves as president of the American Soybean Association. If farmers can’t make ends ...

  • G20 summit in South Africa ends with glaring U.S. absence after Trump's boycott

    G20 summit in South Africa ends with glaring U.S. absence after Trump's boycott

    Nov 23, 2025 06:31 PM EDT

    ... been critical of a South African agenda for the group that largely focused on climate change and global wealth inequality — focuses the Trump administration derided. Argentina said it also opposed the declaration after Argentine President Javier Milei — a Trump ally — also skipped the summit. Other G20 nations, including China, Russia ...

  • U.S. now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president says

    U.S. now wants to reverse its boycott and join the G20 summit, South African president says

    Nov 20, 2025 05:21 PM EDT

    ... African Union are also members. South Africa, which is the first African nation to hold the rotating presidency, is hoping to use its summit to make progress on issues especially affecting poor countries. That includes mitigating the impact of climate change and weather-related disasters, easing debt burdens for developing ...

  • Chile votes in polarized election after campaign focused on immigration and crime

    Chile votes in polarized election after campaign focused on immigration and crime

    Nov 16, 2025 06:12 PM EDT

    Kaiser wants to hold undocumented migrants in detention camps and bar their children from attending school. “He's the only one that can make Chile a first-world country again,” said Alatina Velázquez, 20, a student at a recent Kaiser rally where fans wore red "Make Chile Great Again" caps ...

  • What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

    What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data

    Oct 24, 2025 10:45 PM EDT

    ... I was getting were two or three times higher than the official numbers for inflation. William Brangham: As the real data became clearer, both regular Argentineans and global investors lost trust in the country's economic numbers. Alberto Cavallo: It became very hard for the government to finance itself. And ...

  • Trump threatened to move World Cup games away from Boston, but it's up to FIFA to pick sites

    Trump threatened to move World Cup games away from Boston, but it's up to FIFA to pick sites

    Oct 15, 2025 07:11 PM EDT

    ... fans from around the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.” Trump's comments came during his meeting with Argentina President Javier Milei and it wasn't immediately clear what he was referring to by parts of Boston having been seized. Earlier this month ...

  • Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

    Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans

    Oct 12, 2025 09:40 PM EDT

    ... person meeting with Xi later this month. In the meantime, his administration is said to be putting together a multibillion dollar bailout package to help make up farmers losses. Donald Trump: And we're going to take some of that tariff money that we made. We're going to give ...