BLOOMBERG Bolsonaro government’s message to Biden: Trumpism lives on in Brazil 16-01-2021 04:04 Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo wants Joe Biden to know that it’s not about to reverse course in response to the change of US leadership.
BLOOMBERG Merkel’s party must finally settle on a new leader and is torn 11-01-2021 08:19 Angela Merkel has been a pillar of stability for Germany and the western world for the better part of two decades, but the party that kept her in charge of Europe’s biggest economy is grappling with the power vacuum she’s leaving behind.
Coronavirus pandemic City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta tests positive for Covid-19 06-01-2021 18:00 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta confirms in tweet that he has tested positive for Covid-19.
Ex-Uruguay president Uruguay in mourning as ex-president Tabaré Vázquez dies aged 80 06-12-2020 09:17 Family confirms in statement that left-wing leader, who ruled Uruguay twice from 2005-2010 and 2015-2020, has succumbed to lung cancer.
BLOOMBERG - OPINION Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Trump’s biggest orphan 09-11-2020 17:54 Bolsonaro is now Trump’s most prominent orphan in the Americas, and his politics by tantrum may ring hollow absent the hemisphere’s alpha provocateur. by Mac Margolis
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA Leopoldo López leaves embassy haven to flee Venezuela 25-10-2020 10:54 Statement from Voluntad Popular party confirms former opposition mayor has left the country to continue his work from abroad in a decision they deemed “best for the country and the fight for Venezuela's freedom.”
Asia Yoshihide Suga named Japan's prime minister, succeeding Abe 16-09-2020 15:54 Japan's Parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as prime minister Wednesday, replacing long-serving leader Shinzo Abe with his right-hand man.
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA Venezuela opposition politician breaks with US-backed Guaidó 03-09-2020 00:04 Henrique Capriles says he will fight for fair elections, breaking with US-backed leader Juan Guaido, whose coalition has vowed to boycott Venezuela's upcoming congressional elections.
RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER Germany: Soviet-era nerve agent used in poisoning of Russia's Navalny 02-09-2020 23:49 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny poisoned with same type of Soviet-era nerve agent used in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, says German government, provoking outrage from Western leaders who demanded Moscow provide an explanation.
BLOOMBERG Brazil says it’s prepared to deal with Biden 28-07-2020 22:36 Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo says Brasilia would have no problem dealing with Joe Biden, should he defeat Donald Trump in this year's US election.
Global pandemic White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil 25-05-2020 08:39 Brazil, now Latin America's hardest-hit country, has recorded more than 347,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths from Covid-19.
ARGENTINA CORONAVIRUS Fears over Covid-19 in villas come to fruition with community leader's death 23-05-2020 09:13 Ramona Medina's death shines a light on the problems facing Argentina’s poorest amid the coronavirus pandemic, which is spreading more rapidly in low-income neighbourhoods.
BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO Video of Cabinet meeting puts Brazil's Bolsonaro under fire 22-05-2020 23:34 A profanity-laced video showing Bolsonaro expressing frustration at his inability to get information from police and vowing to change Cabinet ministers if needed to protect his family was released Friday, May 22, 2020, at the order of a Supreme Court justice.
BOLIVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS Morales protégé, Luis Arce, leads in polls head of Bolivian election 16-03-2020 22:32 The candidate of ex-president Evo Morales' MAS party, Luis Arce, has a commanding lead in opinion polls ahead of the May 3 presidential election in Bolivia
Bloomberg Coronavirus fallout and Congress obstacles put pressure on Bolsonaro 04-03-2020 15:03 Brazilian leader is struggling to engineer an economic take-off, as list of challenges grows.
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA Venezuela's Guaidó sworn in as National Assembly speaker after stand-off 07-01-2020 13:55 Opposition leader sworn in for another term as the speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday after a tense stand-off with the Armed Forces who initially prevented him from entering Congress.
BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO Brazil's Bolsonaro holds his ground but faces tough second year 01-01-2020 09:00 Heading into his second year as president, far-right Brazilian leader has held firm to his combative culture-warrior policies while feuding with critics at home and abroad.
STATE-RUN ENERGY FIRM Contenders line up with YPF likely to take on new leadership 09-11-2019 11:35 Current chairman Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez looks set to retire with change of government – here’s five names who could lead the state energy giant under the Alberto Fernández administration.
JAILED SOCIAL LEADER UCR's Cornejo slams 'irresponsible' Fernández over Milagro Sala comments 08-11-2019 17:24 President-elect accused of "anti-republican behaviour" after saying jailed Túpac Amaru leader "does not deserve to be detained." Sala, meanwhile, says she wants to run for governorship of Jujuy Province.
RADICAL LEADERSHIP Cornejo set to stay on as UCR chairman after talks with Morales 07-11-2019 18:01 Outgoing Mendoza governor set to stay on as Radical (UCR) party chairman, after talks with Jujuy's Gerardo Morales. However, Cornejo will not abandon ambitions to be the future opposition leader in Congress.
ELECTIONS 2019 Alberto is not the hero we deserved, but is he what we need? 05-10-2019 09:11 It’s obvious that the president’s economic philosophy is as far possible from currency controls and interventionism of financial markets as possible. by Agustino Fontevecchia
OBITUARY Former French president Jacques Chirac Chirac dies at 86 26-09-2019 09:16 No cause of death given for late two-term French president, who was the first leader to acknowledge his country's role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.