News of road

Lula and Xi to ink new deals as Brazil shrugs off Trump’s trade threats

13-05-2025 08:51 Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and China’s Xi Jinping are set to ink new trade-related agreements in Beijing on Tuesday.

GEOPOLITICS & DIPLOMACY

Colombia moves to join China's Belt and Road

07-05-2025 11:19 Colombian leader Gustavo Petro says he will sign a "letter of intent" to join the Belt and Road Initiative, a central pillar of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping's bid to expand Beijing's economic and political clout overseas.

GEOPOLITICS & DIPLOMACY

Trump’s China trade war is forcing Latin America to pick a side

15-04-2025 14:02 Intensifying battle between world’s two largest economies has left governments grappling with the reality that their days of doing big business with Beijing without serious blowback from Washington are numbered.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Chile unveils ‘bioceanic road corridor’ plan to fanfare

15-04-2025 13:18 President Gabriel Boric presents massive infrastructure project – the cost of which was not revealed – that would link the north of Chile with Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay to form a new trade route between the Atlantic and the Asia-Pacific.

GEOPOLITICS

Brazil reluctant to pick between US and China in polarised world

23-10-2024 23:38 Brazilian leaders are walking a fine diplomatic line to appeal to both the US and China and shield their nation from any potential blowback in an increasingly polarised world.

SAN MARTÍN DE LOS ANDES

Four soldiers killed, 18 injured as Army truck overturns in Patagonia

21-09-2023 23:30 Driver loses control of Argentine Army truck travelling along Route 62 near San Martin de los Andes; For reasons that are still under investigation, military vehicle overturned and derailed, falling from a height of 10 metres down a ravine.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Stories that caught our eye: August 5 to 12

10-08-2023 23:07 A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

News of road

Lula and Xi to ink new deals as Brazil shrugs off Trump’s trade threats

Colombia moves to join China's Belt and Road

Trump’s China trade war is forcing Latin America to pick a side

Chile unveils ‘bioceanic road corridor’ plan to fanfare

Brazil reluctant to pick between US and China in polarised world

Four soldiers killed, 18 injured as Army truck overturns in Patagonia

Stories that caught our eye: August 5 to 12

Argentina signals to investors IMF cash to come despite reserves

Milei’s revamp lets Argentines send US$43,700 – no questions asked

Milei unveils plan to draw dollars out from under mattresses

Patagonian province on war footing over Milei’s threat to industry

MercadoLibre CEO steps aside after 25 years for chairman job

Créditos AUH de ANSES 2025: cómo solicitar un préstamo de hasta $800.000

En dos provincias argentinas prohibieron tomar mate mientras se conduce por la ruta

Los peritos confirmaron que Laura Leguizamón fue quien mató a su familia en Villa Crespo

Abogado laboralista cordobés sobre el DNU de Milei: "Vamos a aparecer como los violadores internacionales del derecho de huelga"

"Crímenes en familia": el inquietante perfil de la mujer sospechada de haber asesinado a su esposo e hijos