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Former Fox executive found guilty in FIFA bribery case

09-03-2023 23:34 Former executive with 21st Century Fox and Argentine sports marketing firm found guilty in New York of paying bribes to secure lucrative television rights to football officials.

The Ukraine war in five chapters

24-02-2023 02:09 A timeline of the main developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine one year ago.

Biden and Lula put on pro-democracy show under Bolsonaro’s shadow

10-02-2023 11:09 Joe Biden hosts his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the White House Friday in a show of support for Brazilian democracy, shaken last month by a right-wing insurrection akin to the invasion of the US Capitol in 2021. The elephant in the room: former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who's been vacationing in Florida since December 30.

US, Brazil to seek reset with Biden-Lula meeting

08-02-2023 17:18 The US and Brazil will seek to reset ties this week when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva travels to Washington to meet Joe Biden, both keen to turn the page on the Jair Bolsonaro years.

Threading the labyrinth

20-01-2023 13:05 E2, EB-1A, O-1, EB-2… heart-wrenching as leaving homeland and family can be, the decision to go can be arguably the easier part. Immigration lawyer Tyler Allen details the difficulties for Argentines wishing to move to the United States.

by Michael Soltys

Defendants stand trial in New York in 'FIFAgate' corruption case

16-01-2023 16:18 Argentine-American Hernán López and Mexican-American Carlos Martínez, ex-employees of US giant 21st Century Fox, stand trial on corruption, bank fraud and money-laundering charges in US court.

Venezuela’s nine-cent bonds lure a distressed-debt veteran

28-12-2022 14:16 Trader raising money to buy defaulted Venezuelan bonds amid signs of easing tensions between President Nicolás Maduro, the political opposition and the United States.

Operation ‘spook’

17-12-2022 06:00 With inflation running near 100 percent and an economy that could grind to a halt given a structural lack of hard currency, optimism is reserved for the brave.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Santiago Cafiero on standing in for the president, G20 and a chat with Joe Biden

18-11-2022 12:58 Foreign minister had to step in and replace President Alberto Fernández at the G20 Leaders Summit. In a short interview, he speaks about the tour, his chat with US President Joe Biden and Cecilia Todesca Bocco's candidacy for the Inter-American Development Bank.

by Rosario Ayerdi, from Madrid

Todesca Bocco, Argentina's candidate for IDB chief, calls for its ‘transformation’

17-11-2022 16:17 Cecilia Todesca Bocco, Argentina's Secretary for International Economic Relations and candidate for the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), outlines her vision for the institution.

Latin America is slipping out of the US orbit

14-11-2022 06:37 Must the US kiss Latin America goodbye? To woo back the region, the Biden administration needs to offer it a better deal than China’s.

Latin America bank to consider five candidates for chief

13-11-2022 12:13 There are five candidates in race to become new chief for the Inter-American Development Bank, a key financial institution for the region.

Midterms offer Biden hope in defeat

09-11-2022 13:05 Democrats outperform expectations as final results trickle in.

Massa discussed Inter-American Development Bank job with US senators

08-11-2022 22:15 US senators discussed with Sergio Massa the possibility of Argentina's economy minister becoming a candidate to lead the Inter-American Development Bank.

LGBTQ candidates make history in US midterm election

04-11-2022 00:19 A new report from the LGBTQ Victory Fund found that of the 1,065 LGBTQ hopefuls who ran primary campaigns for November's midterms, a historic 678 made it onto the ballot – an 18 percent increase over 2020.

Brazil's Lula finds quick welcome and likely ally in Biden

02-11-2022 15:28 Lula and Biden – both septuagenarian political veterans who returned to the ballot on avowed missions to save democracy – stand to form a close partnership on issues, starting with climate change.

Judge takes statements from five crew-members of grounded Venezuela plane

30-09-2022 16:53 Judge Federico Villena has taken preliminary statements from five crew members from a Venezuelan cargo plane grounded at Ezeiza International Airport since June.

Strong US dollar an unstoppable force endangering other currencies

30-09-2022 14:19 The dazzling rise of the US dollar, which has hit one record after another, is raising fears of a severe currency crash that could reverberate around the world. 

China scoops up cheaper Argentina soybeans as US harvest begins

21-09-2022 15:20 China, the world's biggest soybean importer, has greatly increased purchases from Argentina, just as US farmers begin to harvest their crop.

Twelve crew-members from Venezuela plane held in Argentina arrive home

16-09-2022 22:28 Some of the crew from Venezuelan cargo plane detained at Ezeiza for more than three months are released and welcomed home at an airport near Caracas; Seven still remain in Argentina under banning orders.