Opinion

   The Drug Kingpin Running Venezuela's Bond Negotiations By Patricia Laya and                                                        Andrew Rosat Tareck El Aissami. Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg Vice President Tareck El Aissami has...

Daniel Ortega is causing a bloodbath in Nicaragua   Could Nicaragua go the way of Venezuela? IT BEGAN three months ago with a protest against cuts in pensions decreed by Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s president. Now his Central...

The collapse of the Venezuelan health system   When Hugo Chavez became Venezuela's new president in 1998, he promised to provide free health care to all and enshrined this right within Venezuela's new constitution, rewritten in...

Can France be more like its football team? Nadia Henni-Moulai   While the French football team symbolises the acceptance of migrants, the country is divided over the issue of refugees. Will a victory in the...

Can Saudi Arabia pump much more oil?   LONDON(Reuters) - The leader of Saudi Arabia has assured U.S. President Donald Trump that the Kingdom can raise oil production if needed and the country has 2 million...

The End of Mexican Democracy? By Enrique Krauze   Mexico City — On July 1, we Mexicans will choose our president for the next six years. It will be no ordinary election. During a period when democracy...

What do you think about the latest development in the Ivanka saga? I mean Us magazine, obviously. Hadley Freeman   Mitchell, Seattle, Washington Greetings, Mitchell! It may rain nine months of the year in Seattle, as Niles from...

From Lima to Havana – a decisive moment for Latin America Remi Piet The recent Summit of the Americas and the transition of power in Cuba are just two events among a number of political shifts...

Maduro assassination plot suspect falls to death under murky circumstances Adam Bensaid 10 Oct 2018 Venezuelan president's critics accuse the government of murdering Fernando Alban after officials give contradictory statements regarding the events leading...

The Eurozone Must Reform or Die Kenneth Rogoff Twitter: @KRogoff   OXFORD – With the election of a reform-minded centrist president in France and the re-election of German Chancellor Angela Merkel seeming ever more likely, is there hope...