Ecuador’s presidential election appears headed to a run-off vote in October between left-wing candidate Luisa Gonzalez and business scion Daniel Noboa, according to partial results. With 85 percent of votes counted, Gonzalez – a protege of former President Rafael Correa who has promised...
Regional and international leaders have hailed the victory of left-wing anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arevalo in Guatemala’s presidential run-off, while urging a smooth transfer of power. Arevalo, a 64-year-old former diplomat and son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected...
Voters in Ecuador have passed a referendum to prohibit oil drilling in a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a move hailed as “historic” by environmental activists. With nearly all the votes counted on Monday, almost 60 percent supported the ban on oil development in Yasuni National...
They are giant economies, with even bigger populations and still greater ambitions. Starting Tuesday, leaders of the group of nations known as the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are meeting for a three-day summit, which is expected to draw eyeballs from capitals...
As leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet for their annual BRICS summit starting on Tuesday, there is little doubt that the grouping has taken on new importance amid intensifying great power competition. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s increasingly...
