News of exodus

UN: 2.5 million people have now fled 'senseless' Ukraine war

11-03-2022 14:33 Some 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago, with the number expected to soar as high as four million.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT

War in Ukraine risks displacing one million, straining EU’s east

25-02-2022 00:43 Europe is bracing for what could be an exodus of more than a million refugees after Russia launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine, as officials say any initial strain will be borne by member states on the bloc’s eastern frontier.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Cuba protests fanned by worst economic crisis since fall of USSR

16-07-2021 03:00 Cuba's deepest economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a spike in Covid-19 infections, power blackouts and increased use of social media all helped fan discontent with the 62-year-old communist regime.

Venezuelan exodus

NGO: Almost 2,000 Venezuelan refugees murdered in Colombia in 5 years

24-06-2021 09:50 At least 1,933 Venezuelan migrants were killed in Colombia between 2015 and 2020, and another 836 are "considered missing," reports Colombian NGO

Brain drain

Is it time to leave or is Argentina worth it?

08-05-2021 00:06 Even more dangerous than outdated economics is the constant trench warfare that is Argentine politics, which begets disillusionment and feeds the brain drain.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

BLOOMBERG

Wealthy Argentines flee taxes, politics to settle in Uruguay

07-10-2020 17:01 Nearly half of the 504 Argentines who’ve taken up tax residency abroad this year have chosen Uruguay.

TRADE & BUSINESS

Fernández asks firms to trust Argentina amid reports of ‘exodus’

19-09-2020 08:47 Business decisions by Falabella and Glovo grab the headlines and spark speculation, with the former announcing it will shutter four stores and the latter selling off all its Latin America operations.