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Mexico failed to use the legal stability provided by the NAFTA treaties to consolidate lawful governance at home. Now, as U.S. President Trump shakes up all his country’s ties, millions of Mexicans are up against the consequences of their country’s endemic and unresolved problems.
Volvo is setting records, especially with its electric cars. At its plant in Belgium, it becomes clear why the Swedish-Chinese brand is better equipped than its competitors to ride out a looming global trade war.
Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs may have sparked a new era of wealth for America’s economy, but at what cost? As trade wars escalate, vulnerable countries will bear the brunt of economic turmoil.
The U.S. president has unveiled a new round of tariffs against his trading partners. But Europeans have leverage against this policy, French essayist Édouard Tétreau writes.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s far-reaching new tariffs have sent markets falling, in a watershed moment that made the front page of many newspapers around the world.
The looming threat of reciprocal tariffs between the U.S. and India could have devastating effects on various export sectors, leading to potential disruptions in global trade and food inflation.
India’s silence on Trump’s imperialistic notions about taking over Greenland and Gaza does not sit well with its growing relative strength in the world.
Israel’s war on Gaza, with the support of the West, is not far from the necessities of capitalist accumulation in many regions of the world, or at least about managing the crisis of contemporary global capitalism.
Updated March 23, 2024 at 12:40 p.m. On this day in 2021, a large container ship called the Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal, obstructing the waterway and causing a major traffic jam of ships waiting to pass through. The obstruction lasted for six days. What caused the Ever Given to run aground? […]
SANTIAGO — China has been one of Latin America’s main trade partners in recent years, driving the engine of development in the region with a hungry demand for raw materials to help sustain the Asian giant’s growth. But the recent slowdown of China’s economy has been felt acutely in the economies of several Latin American […]
The proliferation of Latin American multinationals – multilatinas – is the surest sign that the region is freeing itself of its 20th century central vice: selling raw materials to a single patron power.