News of governments

Priciest food since 1970s is a big challenge for governments

15-09-2021 10:41 Governments across the world know that rising food costs can come with a political price. The dilemma is whether they can do enough to prevent having to pay it.

Darwin cemetery

Malvinas humanitarian mission: Red Cross discovers five bodies

20-08-2021 03:11 Red Cross experts working to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers on the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands said Thursday they discovered an additional body buried in a common grave.

HUMANITARIAN PROJECT

Red Cross sends second mission team to identify fallen Argentine soldiers

16-08-2021 14:20 The Red Cross said Monday it had begun a second phase in its forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried on the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands.

ARGENTINE PONTIFF

Pope urges more regulation of financial markets

04-05-2021 14:26 Pope Francis called Tuesday for tougher regulation of financial markets in a video message published through his Worldwide Prayer Network.

POLITICS & THE PANDEMIC

Allies not speaking to each other

21-11-2020 10:33 Coalitions are made up of political parties, but essentially they are about people interacting. Political parties can be difficult – and so can people.

by Martín Gambarotta

AS I SEE IT

The times have certainly changed

24-10-2020 09:40 The egalitarian ethos that is rapidly consolidating itself in many parts of the world has shaped the response to the challenge posed by Covid-19.

by James Neilson

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Latin America infrastructure woes add to inequality

10-08-2020 09:25 The poorest workers and households in the region shoulder an inequitable share of the cost of ramshackle transportation, dirty water, serial power outages and patchy communications. Throw in the coronavirus pandemic, and the plight of those at the bottom is even more dire.

by Mac Margolis

BLOOMBERG – OPINION

Covid-19’s toll will rewrite Latin America's future

01-07-2020 23:22 The multiple crises assailing Latin America might not go entirely to waste, but to achieve lasting salutary change, the region must address the systemic vulnerabilities laid bare by the pandemic.

by Mac Margolis

EDITORIAL

100 days

27-06-2020 08:46 Behind closed frontiers in most cases with the nation state in full revival, each government lurches into its own response in a global patchwork of quarantine strategies amid total uncertainty.

Post-quarantine plan

Lifting lockdown? Against coronavirus, no one size fits all

24-04-2020 13:37 Without a tried-and-tested action plan for how to pull countries out of coronavirus lockdown, the world is seeing a patchwork of approaches.

Coronavirus pandemic

Macri signs manifesto accusing government of creeping 'authoritarianism'

23-04-2020 23:44 Document issued by Madrid-based Fundación Internacional para la Libertad, signed by former president and a host of PRO officials, accuses Fernández administration of using pandemic as an excuse to introduce authoritarian measures.