News of Carolina Barros

Carolina Barros

Former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. (2010-2013)

A woman seeking information regarding US elections.

Go vote, boy!

31-10-2020 08:31 Latinos don’t vote as a bloc, but with 32 million eligible voters, they will certainly go a long way towards swinging Tuesday’s US election.

by Carolina Barros

A series of precise signals and messages, calculated to fit within the timing of the transition.

LATAM WATCH

Messages in a bottle (from Washington)

16-11-2019 09:04 The statements emanating from the White House generally tend not to be very specific. But that was not the case here. Argentina was sent a series of precise signals and messages, calculated to fit within the timing of the transition.

by Carolina Barros

US MIDTERMS

A blue House ain’t strong enough to see off Trump’s foreign policy

10-11-2018 09:26 With the Democrats reflecting a diverse electorate, the Republican Party has instead reshaped itself into a Trumpian version of the traditionally conservative GOP.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Oh when the saints go marching in

06-10-2018 11:07 Endorsed by the Evangelists, Jair Bolsonaro is leading the polls.

by Carolina Barros

Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, the man suspected of stabbing Jair Bolsonaro, pictured after he was detained in Juiz de Fora after the attack.

LATAM WATCH

Without Lula, a politically barren Brazil goes ablaze and bloody

08-09-2018 10:55 Can Bolsonaro continue on his campaign with voting day barely four weeks away? And if he does return to the presidential race, how will this attack influence his voting intentions?

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

The Bolsonaros: a political Gang of Four

01-09-2018 09:22 They’re not a freak show in aesthetic terms but the rhetoric might have come from a horror movie.

by Carolina Barros

US President shakes hands with North Korean leader during their meeting at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RAFAEL GROSSI

‘There is now a window of opportunity for North Korea’

16-06-2018 08:10 Did Kim Jong-un outmanoeuvre Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master of the art of the deal, in Singapore? What did the president of the United States commit himself (and the world) to at the summit with North Korea? Internationally renowned nuclear expert Rafael Grossi, Argentina’s ambassador to Austria and former deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), unravels the diplomatic codes behind the not-so simple agreement that was signed in Singapore this week.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Shameless Maduro doctors yet another sham election

19-05-2018 10:35 Coercion dictates the vote: and not only fear of the military régime and police state under Maduro but also the despair of hunger will be dragging voters to ballot boxes.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Cuba in transition: Minding the gap (step-by-step)

21-04-2018 16:48 Today, over 80 percent of Cubans have only known a Castro as president. From this standpoint, this is doubtless a pivotal moment for Cuba.

by Carolina Barros

President Donald Trump decided to turn his back to Latam.

LATAM WATCH

Iran eyes opportunity amid another vacuum in Latin America

14-04-2018 09:53 The Iranian foreign minister’s visit to two South Cone capitals found little echo in the local media.

by Carolina Barros

Darwin Cemetery filled with memories and tears from soldiers' relatives.

RECONCILIATION IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC

No name is an island

31-03-2018 08:17 A woman taps me on the shoulder and asks me to help her find a chair. “I want to be in front of him until they take me back to the plane.”

by Carolina Barros

More than 115 million brazilian voters will choose their President on October 7.

LATAM WATCH

Whether he stands or not, Lula is the kingmaker in Brazil

10-03-2018 12:21 According to pundit Mauricio Moura candidates appealing to this sense of indignation, like Bolsonaro, only stand a chance if Lula does not run.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

The remains of Venezuela, a sanctuary for ELN guerrillas

24-02-2018 12:02 While oil remains ample without being extracted, Venezuela is being drained on other sides – of food, of medicine, of basic inputs, of human decency.

by Carolina Barros

Tillerson visited Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Jamaica.

LATAM WATCH

Rex takes flight over LatAm: but as a bald eagle or a dove?

10-02-2018 10:48 Who, allegedly, drew up the script and itinerary for Rex Tillerson’s fivenation tour? Has there been a shift in addressing the hemisphere’s affairs?

by Carolina Barros

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's reputation has crossed over into popular culture.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

'At least half the brain power is possessed by women. We should not underuse it.'

28-01-2018 00:34 Born in Brooklyn in 1933, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime fighting for gender equality. Defending women’s rights and battling adversity and discrimination, today she sits on her nation’s highest court, witnessing the birth of a movement denouncing sexual harassment.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Centre-right triumphs fraught with weakness

23-12-2017 11:00 Even though Piñera won in 13 of the country’s 15 regions and broke the traditional dominance of the left in the mining north, the Congress elected in the first round belongs to the opposition, just as with Macri and PPK.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Donald’s legacy won’t be mere bling bling – it will be a conservative nation

09-12-2017 11:55 A mere revision of the nominations he has made will show that Trump’s choices will certainly have an impact on generations to come … more than half of them are under 45 years old, meaning they will be in court for, most probably, a period of three decades.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Chile likely to rejoin the presidential millionaires’ club

19-11-2017 00:55 “Chilean statistics provide a basis for progressive arguments – a percapita anual income of US$20,000 is so badly distributed that three quarters of the population earn US$700 a month.”

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LATAM WATCH

Recalculating foreign policy

11-11-2017 11:29 The good news is that President Macri has at last decided to champion Latin America in the quest for a united hemisphere.

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LATAM WATCH

Wanted: an opposition and its leader for Venezuela

28-10-2017 12:26 Torrealba’s main concern is that Maduro has discovered a sinister formula: “When there is hunger and dictatorship, whoever controls the hunger also controls the vote.”

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Washington or Beijing, if there is a question

21-10-2017 10:51 “We are evidently not on the priority list for the US or the European Union – you only have to look at their actions and the documents spelling it out to see that,” Diego Guelar, Argentina’s ambassador to China, told the Times.

by Carolina Barros

“My impression is that the [North Korean] crisis is not going to be solved just because Beijing takes anyaction to definitively cripple Pyongyang,” says Rafael Grossi.

INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRIA AND NUCLEAR EXPERT RAFAEL GROSSI

‘What we are witnessing with North Korea is a slow-motion trainwreck’

14-10-2017 02:56 Argentina’s Ambassador to Austria, Rafael Grossi, is a globally renowned nuclear expert and the country’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In an exclusive interview with the Times, he shares his thoughts on the ongoing crisis with North Korea and US President Donald Trump’s approach toward the nuclear deal with Iran.

by Carolina Barros

A view of a street in the eastern area of Mexico City, the morning after a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck the country.

LATAM WATCH

Mexico’s earthquakes aren’t only seismic, they’re political too

07-10-2017 11:13 The rapid and organised public reflexes in the rescue of victims after both earthquakes exposed the inefficiency and corruption of the political and ruling classes. Every time they sought to draw political dividends from the disaster, the politicians were rejected by civil society.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Donald Trump: tailor-made for Latin America

30-09-2017 11:46 Latin America knows how to ‘read’ the realestate tycoon better than anybody, interpreting many of his tweets and highoctane phrases as merely headlines to paper over uncomfortable realities.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Tickets torn in half: vice-presidents under fire

16-09-2017 11:07 “Watch your back with the veep” should become a constant premise in Latin America.

by Carolina Barros

LATAM WATCH

Temerarious Temer ducks impeachment again

09-09-2017 14:42 Temer is a trained contortionist in the Brazilian political circus.

by Carolina Barros

opinion and analysis

An oiled US exit for Maduro?

02-09-2017 08:15 If there is to be an epilogue to this long stretch of agony, when will it take place?

by Carolina Barros