Financial Times
Monday, August 3, 2015 - 06:42
But fears are growing that Right Sector — the only major volunteer battalion Kiev has not yet managed to bring under regular army control — could turn its fire on the new government itself.
Friday, June 26, 2015 - 06:30
Brazil distrusts what it sees as US military and commercial hegemony while Washington is unnerved by Brasília’s friendships with countries such as Russia, Iran and China and its trade protectionism.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 06:53
Security, or rather the lack of it, is the number one issue for Mexican voters. They consistently rank it higher than economic growth, unemployment or the state of public services that generally concern their peers in other middle-income nations.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 07:11
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos said this weekend he would persist with the most advanced peace negotiations in five decades of armed conflict even as Marxist rebels step up attacks on security forces and disrupt energy supplies.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 06:26
On Sunday, in what Mr Peña Nieto himself called a referendum on his rule, Mexicans voted in closely watched midterms, and the results have generated some anxiety. Although his party did relatively well, the vote has rekindled worries about what might happen at the 2018 presidential election.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 06:49
With the economy sinking into recession, inflation exceeding the central bank’s targets and infighting in the ruling coalition of President Dilma Rousseff on the increase.Add a corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, and an adverse external environment — the Chinese economy slowing and the US Federal Reserve expected to raise interest rates — and Latin America’s largest economy is facing difficulties.
Monday, May 11, 2015 - 06:57
Syria’s misery shows no sign of ending; Libya is torn in half; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is making gains in Iraq; and Yemen is sliding into a humanitarian crisis. When Barack Obama hosts leaders from the Gulf at Camp David on Thursday, he will be confronted by a Middle East that is coming apart at the seams.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 06:18
Brazil’s federal prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into the country’s wildly popular former leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, putting further pressure on his embattled protégée President Dilma Rousseff.
Monday, May 4, 2015 - 07:29
Several attempts to end Latin America’s longest running insurgency, which has claimed over a quarter of a million lives, have failed. Success would transform Latin America’s third-biggest economy and benefit the region. Both Havana and Caracas encouraged Farc to the negotiating table. Ending its involvement in drug smuggling could slow the flow of cocaine through neighboring Venezuela.
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 06:34
Azerbaijan distanced itself on Wednesday from growing demands in the US to arm Ukraine against pro-Russian separatists, a stance reflecting concern in Baku about the conflict’s potential impact on national security and domestic stability.