The net investment income surplus faded due to post-pandemic interest rate hikes and continued net sales of U.S. assets to foreign investors.

We asked AI who the biggest boosters of the conflict are. Surprise: they are all connected to Israel and supported the Iraq war too.

This debate is no longer theoretical. It will become increasingly relevant as the United States eases financial restrictions on Venezuela through new OFAC

Entrevista a Oliver Pardo, profesor de la Universidad Javeriana, sobre la magnitud del problema de deuda, déficit y crisis de finanzas publicas del país.

Es donde se elabora lo que Petro llama “mi nuevo modelo económico”. Sin miedo a la inflación, promueve alto gasto público e industrialización sin petróleo.

Cristian Dezilio thought the loan he took out to buy his son a used car to get around Buenos Aires’ suburbs was plenty manageable at $355 a month in pesos.

One supports the regime, the other desires change. Each offers a personal account of the terrifying sights and frayed emotions of a city under attack.

After eight months of relentless Sinaloa Cartel infighting, Culiacán and surrounding areas are confronting historic economic losses.

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China will roll out an array of targeted measures to simultaneously boost consumption and deliver tangible benefits to the people after policymakers signaled a shift in prioritizing the expansion of d...

The Venezuelan prison gang was a frequent theme in Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric on immigration. But its reach in the U.S. is exaggerated.

A rift within the Second Marquetalia underscores the fragility of alliances among illegal groups and highlights the challenges the Colombian government faces when negotiating with diverse organization...

Across what was once South America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, everyone is searching for fuel.

José ‘Pepe’ Mujica is perhaps the most famous Uruguayan in the world, but that doesn't faze him. “I'm not a phenomenon; I'm an ordinary guy with some eccentricities,” says the 89-year-old former presi...

Deflation fuels ‘inexorable’ slide in China’s long-term sovereign bond yields below Japan’s for the first time

Each night at Colombia’s Cúcuta border city, illegal dirt tracks connecting the city to Venezuela become highways for smuggling.

Brazil's federal police have arrested five officers accused of plotting a coup that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio Lu...

Analyses of 2024 election exit polls claim that President-elect Donald Trump’s strong showing has transformed his party’s base into a new, powerful multiracial coalition.

In Rio de Janeiro, the balance of power may be shifting from militias to one of the city’s oldest criminal groups.

An enormous cocaine seizure in Guayana highlights the authorities’ reliance on foreign assistance in netting large quantities of cocaine.

Haiti's anti-corruption agency is accusing high-ranking government officials of crimes ranging from illicit enrichment to abuse of office

<p>President Xiomara Castro has answered scathing new evidence of drug ties against her husband and brother-in-law by accusing the military, opposition, and U.S. Embassy of plotting a coup d’état. Rix...

Fossil fuel exports were meant to fund a revolutionary leftist agenda. But the state’s move to drill in Tariquía reserve has led to bitter conflict and diminishing returns

In the state of La Guajira, ambitious plans to transition to renewables are beset by bureaucratic delays and anger from many local Indigenous people, who see it as ‘new colonialism’

The drug trafficking group's expanding reach threatens to disrupt peace processes with other criminal groups, a recent report found.

El presidente de Chile revisa en entrevista con EL PAÍS su labor de Gobierno y su futuro político. “La profundidad de los cambios que nos imaginamos fue a contrapelo de lo que quería la mayoría. Cambi...

The arrest of current and former Rio officials for involvement in the murder of Marielle Franco points toward political protection.

The small Caribbean territory brought in $32 million last year, more than 10 percent of its G.D.P., from companies registering web addresses that end in .ai.

Ecuadorean prosecutor Cesar Suarez, who focused on pursuing organized trans-national crime in Guayas province, one of the country's most violent areas and the site of an on-air attack on a television station last week, has been killed, the attorney general said on Wednesday.

Economy Minister Luis Caputo assures that there has been no fiscal shock so far in Argentina and that there is still room for further tightening. If President Javier Milei’s ‘Omnibus law’ does n...