News of crisis

The fateful 30th month of the Fernández-Fernández administration

Yesterdat 07:00 President Alberto Fernández has been hit by a crippling run on the peso that has stretched out over several weeks during the 30th month of his Presidency, as an exhausted economic model has failed to generate confidence and Central Bank reserves.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Billionaires promote CO2-removing schemes to protect climate

24-05-2022 15:41 CO2 removal is a necessary weapon in the battle to stop global heating accelerating beyond a point of no return; technology to do so remains prohibitively expensive and must be ramped up significantly, as the world emits 40 billion tonnes of CO2 each year.

10 football pitches of pristine rainforest lost per minute in 2021

30-04-2022 15:42 Huge swathes of tropical rainforest were burned or hacked down for cattle and crops last year, led by destruction in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, warning that climate change itself is making it harder to reverse the losses.

UN: More than five million have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion

15-04-2022 16:29 According to Friday UN figures, more than five million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, in Europe's fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II.

Steppes towards war

25-02-2022 22:48 With Russian tanks reportedly closing in on Kyiv, the international crisis is real enough and deserves to top Argentina’s generally parochial agenda. ​

Venezuela: the decline of an oil giant in crisis

17-01-2022 08:15 The Maracaibo basin in Venezuela was once a flurry of oil activity, with a halo of light over the complex visible at night from a fair distance. Today, it is a humid swamp that stinks of oil from leaking pipes floating on the water.

Left’s great election provides support for the battles to come

20-11-2021 12:13 We know that we’re living in hard times for the working-class majorities who expressed their social discontent at the ballot box.

by Nicolás del Caño, via Noticias Argentinas

InvestBA helps push Buenos Aires onto international stage

27-09-2021 09:47 City Hall’s investment and trade promotion agency, better known simply as investBA, was created less than half a decade ago – but the agency is already making a name for itself on the international stage.

by Sophia Moore-Smith

Sailing boats and cycle rickshaws in oil-rich, fuel-light Venezuela region

18-08-2021 15:13 Venezuelans are improvising to survive chronic fuel shortages in Zulia, the region that saw the birth of the nation's oil industry.

Can Barcelona and La Liga afford not to keep Messi?

06-08-2021 16:32 Not so long ago the very best players in the world played in Spain. Gradually, though, things have changed.