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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The secret memo to Raúl Castro   “We have managed to control the nation with the largest oil reserves on the planet without firing a single shot and without openly involving our armed forces. And we...

The Last Battle for Democracy in Venezuela Wall Street Journal By David Luhnow and José de Córdoba Under Nicolás Maduro, a country that had been one of Latin America’s wealthiest is having its democratic institutions shredded amid rising poverty...

Stephen Hawking leaves audience in tears at 75th birthday celebration   Brian Cox and Gabriela González both spoke movingly at the birthday symposium at the University of Cambridge By Tommy Lumby Stephen Hawking moved an audience to tears today...

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...