During the Covid-19 pandemic, several governments across Latin America mobilised available security forces – including police reserves, the military and the navy – to assist in responding to the pandemic. Security personnel are regularly arrested for...

One leader who may wish to take advantage of the opportunity provided by a Biden presidency to re-set relations is Venezuela's President Maduro. However, if he thinks he can breathe more easily with the election in the US of a like-minded socialist l...

With Joe Biden closing in on the presidency, all eyes (and analysts’ pens[1]) will be focused on what his policy programme means. Florida Latinos are notably more inclined to support the Republican party than their counterparts elsewhere. Taking thes...

This is the second in a series of thought pieces that will look at the role of development finance institutions post-Covid-19. In practice, however, the IMF has so far stuck to its guns and refused to extend funding for countries with an unsustainabl...

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 citing t...

The political situation in Venezuela seemed to take another twistover the weekendafter Juan Guaido's re-election as leader of the National Assembly – which confers on him the internationally recognised position of interim president – was blocked by f...