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Cash-strapped Argentina goes all or nothing on new economy chief

15-09-2022 15:55 New ‘super’ minister has undoubted political clout and scored early wins in Washington – but Sergio Massa’s presidential ambitions depend on avoiding economic meltdown

FEATURE

With 58% inflation, nobody in Argentina knows the price of anything

31-05-2022 12:47 With inflation at 58% and accelerating, Argentina's economy is an outlier even in a world where prices are taking off almost everywhere.

FEATURE

China, US are in a space race to make billions from mining the moon's minerals

22-05-2022 14:03 The world’s top superpowers aren’t cooperating on rules of the road for extracting resources in outer space.

BLOOMBERG

How China beat out the United States to dominate South America

18-02-2022 22:29 It’s no secret that China has been pouring resources into South America this century, chipping away at the United States' historic dominance. But an important shift has gone largely unnoticed in the country's approach to the region: going local to expand and strengthen its financial grip.

FEATURE: VENEZUELA IN CRISIS

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.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela creeps out of hyperinflation, but no-one feels it

17-01-2022 07:51 Economists say Venezuela has come out of a four-year cycle of hyperinflation – but citizens are still waiting to see the evidence.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Venezuela breaks one of world’s longest hyperinflation bouts

15-01-2022 07:56 Venezuela has broken a four-year bout of hyperinflation, after the socialist government slowed the pace of printing money and allowed the US dollar to become the country's preferred currency.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Gustavo Bordet: ‘When positions become radical, votes run away from you’

07-01-2022 22:00 Entre Ríos Province governor on Argentina’s provincial leaders, Peronism and why President Alberto Fernández should stand for re-election in 2023.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

BLOOMBERG

Climate change in Brazil: Fire, frost, drought upends global markets

28-09-2021 09:32 Brazil's crops have been scorched, frozen and then dried out by the worst drought in a century, upending global commodity markets.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Hugo Moyano: ‘We’ve always defended workers to the death’

09-07-2021 20:32 Veteran teamster and union leader Hugo Moyano riffs on his meteoric rise through the labour movement, relationships with Argentina’s presidents and why he is targeted for being on the side of the worker.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT

Nicolás Maduro: ‘The sanctions are illegal, immoral and should be lifted'

25-06-2021 23:30 Venezuela, says Nicolás Maduro, has broken free of "irrational, extremist, cruel" US oppression. But in between his denunciations of Yankee imperialism, the president is making a public plea and aiming it directly at Joe Biden. The message? It's time for a deal.