By supporting Argentina, the U.S. government hopes to start a domino effect preventing ‘failed states’ across South America, says Bessent

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised Argentina’s President Javier Milei as a “beacon” for South America, saying the U.S. will back his economic overhaul through a swap line but not direct funding. Bessent framed the move as a strategic...

From private benefit to collective cost: the exploitation of common resources in Latin America

Climate change is no longer a distant threat but a reality shaping the daily lives of everyone. In Latin America, fires in the Amazon, floods in Central America, and increasingly intense hurricanes in the Caribbean are clear signals of a worsening...

Chef Tita wins first-ever Champions of Change Award in Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025

Santo Domingo.- In a milestone for Latin American gastronomy, Inés Páez Nin, known as Chef Tita, has been named the first recipient of the 2025 Champions of Change Award by Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua...

CARIBBEAN-AGRICULTURE-CARICOM food strategy initiative bearing fruit, says chairman of CARICCOM task force

What I Saw in Milei’s Argentina

Argentina’s recent $20 billion currency swap agreement with the US underscores the delicate balance of economic reform and the vital need for liberalization. Last month, there was a sudden run on the Argentine peso, fueled by a series of political...

NATIONAL VIEW: Trump bets the soybean farm on tariffs

THE POINT: The damage from the trade war turns out to be mutually assured. Whoever claimed trade wars are easy to win clearly wasn’t an American farmer. Witness the enormous collateral damage America’s soybean producers are suffering amid...

Dia Latino at the King Street Farmer’s Market and the Upcoming Winter Market!

Published: Friday, October 3, 2025 at 9:30 am Updated: Friday, October 3, 2025 at 9:30 am Come and honor the rich cultural heritage of Latino communities in the High Country at the Tuesday Farmers Market! This Tuesday, October 7th, community...

Trums's trade war with China hits Ohio's soybean farmers

A trade war with China is causing concern for Ohio's soybean farmers as the country backs out of purchasing U.S. soybeans. While Ohio doesn't sell most of its soybeans directly to China, the loss of a major buyer drives down prices for all U.S....

Mexican News Site Makes Allegations About Mai, He Responds in Comical Press Release

He's the Minister with responsibility for the Free Zones, and that has put Jose Mai in the crosshairs of a report from a Mexican Facebook news outfit called "Noticias De Impacto Zona Sur Quintana Roo". That site posted a story yesterday making...

US pressure on Argentina over currency swap arrangement with China to harm Argentine interests: experts

A currency exchange house in the financial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 23, 2025. Photo: VCG The US government has pressed Argentina to cancel its currency swap arrangement with China, offering a US loan as a possible...

Brazil’s Long Game: Morgan Stanley’s Case for a 20–30 Year Industrial Strategy

Brazil, says Morgan Stanley’s Renato Grandmont, is underperforming its potential because it lacks one thing markets can’t supply: a 20–30-year industrial policy that survives elections. In plain terms, companies won’t bet billions on factories,...

GOP Rep. Flood: Farmers Need Bailout

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) discussed a potential bailout for farmers and said farmers face “an immediate crisis that needs to be addressed. And just like President Trump did in 2017, he promised, when he...

Widening Opportunities in the Caribbean

COULD YOU IMAGINE, one decade or two ago, an announcement that four Caribbean countries, Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines by name, were opening their doors to immigrants from each other, providing the right to live,...

A bumper harvest on US farms is now Trump's big headache

Across the American Midwest, combines are rolling through fields of corn and soybeans in what is shaping up to be one of the largest harvests in US history. From Iowa to Illinois, yields are strong and silos are filling fast. Under normal...

‘On our own territory’: Colombia’s last nomadic tribe fights to return home

About 70 percent of the Nukak population remains displaced from their ancestral lands, according to the FCDS. Most families have been pushed into sedentary lifestyles, settling in makeshift camps on the edge of towns, where addiction and child...

Bessent insists US ready to help Argentina

Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC Under heavy flak for his crumbling economic policies, Milei likened Bessent to footballer Lionel Messi US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly reiterated his strong support for Argentine President Javier...

Brussels sells out Europe’s tobacco farmers and their 80,000 jobs to Beijing

The mask is off. Under the pretext of “modernisation” and “public health”, the European Commission is preparing a Soviet-style assault on one of Europe’s oldest rural industries: Tobacco. At the centre stands European Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra,...

Dennis Jett: Why the White House bailed out Argentina, and subverted our farmers

Florida farmers struggle as legal foreign workers worry about immigration crackdown

Joel Trejo’s American Dream may be in jeopardy. At 15, Trejo emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. to work at a citrus nursery in Florida. After a few years as an employee, he decided to launch his own company, selling citrus trees grown out of his...

US soybean farmers, deserted by big buyer China, scramble for other importers

By Tom Polansek WATERMAN, Illinois (Reuters) -A trade mission to Nigeria. A memorandum of understanding with Vietnam. A surge of purchases from Bangladesh. These countries are not typically major customers for soybeans from the U.S. farm belt. But...