The Americas

Military Mileise

Javier Milei is splurging on the army

Many Argentines are asking why

Mexico’s incoming president (2)

Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan

She cannot boost renewables while propping up the state oil and power giants

Mexico’s incoming president (1)

Investors panicked after Mexico’s election. Were they right?

Claudia Sheinbaum takes over power on October 1st

Law of the jungle

A bold plan to close the deadly Darién Gap unravels

America and Panama struggle to control surging migration

The lawless roads

Peru’s crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars

A startup sees value in the chaos of the country’s streets

Perfume of the Pacific

Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom

Purveyors of scented products and posh ice-creams take note

Venezuela’s election

How the mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power

Behind-the-scenes negotiations seek to ease him out of office

Venezuela’s regime digs in

After protests over a stolen election, the goons crack heads

Yet the brazenness of Nicolás Maduro’s theft crosses a line

Help needed

The plight of Brazil’s indigenous groups worsens

Blame illegal miners, ranchers, loggers, traffickers and an unsympathetic Congress

Mexico’s drug gangs

Will El Mayo’s arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?

The United States nets a very big fish

Greenback blues

The strong dollar is hurting exports from Latin America

For three small dollarised economies it has exposed a lack of competitiveness