The Soviet Union’s collapse 32 years ago led to rapid change, economic collapse, and violence. In Tajikistan, that violence slid rapidly into civil war. Reflecting on the Soviet Union’s collapse 32 years ago and attempting to draw any sort of conclusion is often a matter of perspective...
El Salvador’s president is celebrating after a Bitcoin reserve he bought with public money has entered the black amid the continuing Bitcoin price rise. Since 2021, Nayib Bukele has spent more than $120m (£95m) of his impoverished nation’s money buying Bitcoin. “Issue...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is plunging ahead with its plans to take over Essequibo, the oil-rich region controlled by neighbouring Guyana. He has ordered the state oil company to issue extraction licences there and proposed the National Assembly pass a bill making the area part...
Two Americans have been charged with the murder of a Canadian businessman and his partner in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. Jonathan Lehrer and Robert Snider were both charged at a hearing on Wednesday before Dominica’s chief magistrate. Police believe the two were...
Nearly a decade after 43 students went missing in Mexico, families are still searching for answers. During a drug war that has infiltrated every level of society and led to the disappearances of 110,000 people, can they ever find the truth? “It’s not like when a person dies...
