Ukraine looks to have become the latest country seeking to tap funds from the IMF’s emergency financing facilities to help countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic that was announced earlier this month, according to local media yesterday ci...

The political situation in Venezuela seemed to take another twist over the weekend after Juan Guaido's re-election as leader of the National Assembly – which confers on him the internationally recognised position of interim presid...

As well as our review of the month to date in frontier and emerging markets, we focus on Latin America, where protests have proliferated this year (eg Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru, Venezuela). The small Emerging and...

Venezuela's opposition plans a protest march tomorrow. The timing is not an accident. Venezuela celebrates its own Independence Day on 5 July, while the date also marks the country's National Armed Forces Day. The opposition's call to tak...

President Nicolás Maduro yesterday called on the opposition to accept his proposal for early parliamentary elections, a challenge to both sides to demonstrate their level of popular support, as he seeks a way out of the country’s worseni...