Juan Pablo Spinetto

Copper prices are hitting records as the world struggles with shortages. Why on earth is a giant $10 billion mine that accounts for about 1.5% of global production sitting idle in the Panamanian jungle?

Copper prices are hitting records as the world struggles with shortages. Why on earth is a giant $10 billion mine that accounts for about 1.5% of global production sitting idle in the Panamanian jungle?

Almost two years after Donald Trump first threatened to take over the Panama Canal, the storied watershed is thriving.

It’s a familiar sight across Mexico’s urban landscape: cities every time more congested, with inadequate public transportation and tortuous journeys from one end to the other. Traffic is a problem across Latin America and beyond, but Mexico City has more than earned its rank by some measures as the world’s most congested city.

Smiles, cooperation and lots of patience.

Can Guyana outrun the mismanagement and corruption that have afflicted so many other petro-states?

It’s rare these days to hear a dictator openly admit he won’t bother holding elections. Even the world’s most brutal authoritarian regimes usually resort to sham votes and other tricks to cloak themselves in a veneer of legitimacy.

So much for the panic attack.

A week after two earthquakes struck Venezuela, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths and counting, the courage and generosity of its people and the professionalism of international rescue teams have underscored the incompetence and callousness of the “Chavismo” that has hung over the country for more than a quarter century. That poses a problem for the Trump administration and its goal of exerting more influence in the critical South American country just six months after snatching its president,

Abelardo de la Espriella got the win. Now the hard part begins.