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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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

Trump's China trade war hitting 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....

Sorry farmers, Trump’s tariff revenue is already spoken for

President Donald Trump‘s unilateral imposition of the steepest tariff regime in about a century has not caused the dramatic increase in excess inflation expected by more Keynesian economists. Neither have the tariffs decimated our economic growth,...

Inside Pablo Escobar's home city where drugs are readily available to a traffic jam of cars

2 October 2025, 13:05 | Updated: 3 October 2025, 07:57 "Listen man, we're a narco state, it's just how it is, if you want to see drug deals, I'll show you drug deals - it's Colombia." Your browser doesn't recognise available video formats. I'd...

Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

When Javier Zamora started his organic berry farm more than a decade ago, he was working with just an acre and a half of land in Monterey County, near California’s central coast. Today, he and his crew grow strawberries, raspberries, and...

White House Plans More Multi-Billion Dollar Bailouts for Farmers Struggling Due to Trump’s Trade War

The White House is expected to announce next week additional payments to American farmers who have been suffering as a result of President Trump’s trade war. Many in the agriculture sector have been hurting now that customers in the People’s...

How Meta’s AI bots are worsening education in rural Colombia

This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. José Gregorio Salas Rural High School, where she works, lacks enough computers and reliable internet. Few students can afford the high-end...

'A perfect storm of ugly': Trump's policies are devastating U.S. farmers

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing 'A perfect storm of ugly': Trump's policies are devastating U.S. farmers 08:10 UP NEXT 'Unhinged and unwell': Apparent degradation of Trump's mental...

Fala Formosa! Taiwanese expats to Brazil carve 7 decades of immigrant stories

By Tang Ya-lin and James Lo, CNA staff reporter and writer São Paulo is not typically thought of as a hotspot for Taiwanese restaurants and Boba tea shops, much less places that attract long lines of patrons. Yet there are Taiwanese eateries such...

Chilean firms show interest in importing Vietnamese agricultural products

Hanoi (VNA) – More than 60 Chilean enterprises have expressed interest in importing Vietnamese products, particularly rice, dried fruit, coffee, frozen seafood, and instant foods, during the international food and services fair “Espacio Food &...

Boozman: Farmers in ‘generational crisis’

Sen. John Boozman says Congress must act in the next couple of months to help farmers, and that its members know they must do so. “This isn’t difficulty,” he said in a phone interview. “This is a generational crisis.” Many farmers are suffering...

Trump Seeks A $10 To $14 Billion Farmer Bailout

Thursday, October 2, 2025 8:52 PM EDT Image Source: Pixabay Tariffs backfired on US agricultural exports. Farmer Bailout Coming Up Farmers are harvesting one of the largest crops in history, while China holds off on buying U.S. soybeans The Wall...

Investors test Bessent’s promise to rescue Argentina’s economy

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's record as a powerful pacifier of unruly markets is now being put to the test in Argentina, where investors are questioning the value of his pledge of support last week for President Javier Milei. Barely a week...

World News | From Fields to Ruins: Pakistan's Brutal Offensive Devastates Zehri Farmers

Balochistan [Pakistan] October 3 (ANI): The agrarian town of Zehri, situated about 120 kilometres from Khuzdar, is reeling under an extensive military siege by Pakistani forces, with reports of civilian suffering, destruction of property, and a...