In Latin America, where half of all jobs are off the books, businesses can’t tap into the vast and potentially valuable resource of data to usher in digital transformation.
Author: Alidad Vassigh
Born in Tehran, educated in Britain and France, I have been a freelance translator since the late 1990s.
Forging a new constitution to replace the one from the Pinochet era is necessary for Chile to move forward. But it alone cannot solve tough socio-economic problems plaguing the nation.
Pope Francis, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has had a longstanding tolerance of and friendship for homosexuals, and yet rejection of marriage as anything other than a heterosexual institution.
The decisive reelection of the left in Bolivia, after Evo Morales was crudely ousted, is a message to all those powers that aim to unseat the popular will.
The scale and spread of the coronavirus pandemic may make so-called ‘herd immunity’ virtually inevitable, but it can also prompt Argentina to integrate its scattered healthcare services into a single, national service.
A new documentary uncovers some disturbing truths about the unregulated networks that provide more than half of the horse meat that Europe consumes.
Latin American economies, like others, have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism could help fuel a recovery, but only if countries do a better job of protecting their natural wonders.
Rural communities that have lost leaders to targeted killings have taken to protecting themselves, and without the use of firearms.
People are dying, economies are tanking and politics are awry. But that’s no excuse to short-shrift the struggle for equality and protections for women.
-Analysis- LIMA — Last August, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration published its Western Hemisphere Strategic Framework paper, which designated the Western Hemisphere — North and South America — as a “geo-political priority for the United States.” National Security Adviser Robert C. O’Brien, who presented the document, insisted the region was incredibly important to the United […]
Even the region’s top hospitals were caught off guard by the pandemic. However, some proved adept at adapting and are looking at ways to better prepare for the next big crisis.
Even in its more profitable heyday, the ad-driven media model had its fundamental flaws.
The World Health Organization is far from perfect. But the WHO was never, as Trump and others suggest, involved in some sinister plot with China to hide the truth about COVID-19.
Though it may undermine free speech, Ethiopians seem accepting of government-ordered Internet shutdowns to curb rioting fomented online.
While the U.S.-China rivalry is not yet a repetition of the Cold War, it will have repercussions for Latin American states at a time of acute regional weakness.
With the advancement of AI technology, certain aspects of our individual being may survive beyond the grave. Will we live forever, in other words, just as some artists already do?
The pandemic has delivered yet another blow to the increasingly irrelevant, UN-led multilateral system that was created after World War II.
Truth be told, the post-World World II frenzy for straight lines and exposed concrete never really left. But it has evolved, as demonstrated by Kouichi Kimura’s ‘Tranquil House’ in Japan.
The leftist strongman’s latest prison releases of political opponents has nothing to do with being magnanimous.
Argentina must boost its scientific activities in the South Atlantic and maintain diplomatic pressures on Great Britain as part of its efforts to recover the Falklands.
The bombastic president seems to have little regard for precedence or decorum. But is he just an anomaly? And if not, what happens if he loses?
Argentines were hoping Alberto Fernández would be autonomous from his VP and former president Cristina Kirchner. But he’s beginning to look like the puppet that former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev was to Putin.
A chocolate museum nestled in Spain’s small town of Astorga reveals how an exotic delicacy became a veritable ‘opium of the masses.’
The ‘feminist free marketeer’ is an oxymoron, when the free market is a bastion of the socioeconomic inequalities feminism opposes.
Mexico’s socialist president is fanning class resentments and threatening Mexico’s fragile social peace, while delivering little of the welfare he promised in 2018.
Desperate for a chance to boost the economy and create some much needed jobs, Buenos Aires is ready to sign off on what environmentalists call a ‘pandemics factory.’
Consumer habits shifted dramatically as people sheltered in place. In-person shopping is picking up again, but everything’s still in flux for sellers, who will have to adapt or say ‘adios.’
In the early 1900s, the tuberculosis crisis inspired an outdoor-oriented education model that may be just what the doctor ordered in this new period of pandemic.
The powers that be responded to the pandemic with an array of life-altering directives that, to an astonishing degree, people quietly accept. So what happens next?
Contagion fears and extreme attachment to the internet are reinforcing that most traditional of moral injunctions
If the López Obrador government really wants to restore the state oil firm’s status as a cash cow, it needs to stop treating it like a sacred cow.
The Amazon jungle provides benefits that extend well beyond the river basin itself. It stands to reason, therefore, that countries like Colombia be paid to protect it.
In the race to to find a cure, scientists are rushing to release their study results. There are dangers in skipping the standard peer-review procedures, but they may be outweighed by the benefits.
Protests, slumping economies and the clear erosion in some countries of democratic institutions plagued the region even before the pandemic hit. So what now?
In the movie version, the contagion would lead to lawlessness and chaos. But in reality, institutions are encouragingly resilient.
The jury’s still out on whether COVID-19 can be transmitted sexually. But there’s no doubt that it has made many people more cautious about intimacy.
There are important lessons to be learned from how the world mobilized to contain the novel coronavirus.
Latin America can do a lot more to right history’s wrongs than topple the bronze effigies of its conquest-era villains.
The Covid-19 crisis is likely to reshape globalization while benefiting China and other ‘illiberal’ regimes.
The long lockdown period has only added to the frustrations people feel about their country’s unresolved class disparities, crass politics and history of violence.