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Ecuador restructures Chinese debt
Ecuador has reached a deal with China this week to restructure $4.4 billion of outstanding debt. The period of repayment has been extended with some discounts on the amount due. The deal was reached...
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Lula’s win is a victory for Brazil’s Democracy and good for Latin America...
Lula’s win is a victory for Brazil’s Democracy and good for Latin America and India By electing Luiz Inacio de Lula as President, the Brazilians have restored the country from the aberrations of the...
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Peruvian Congress impeaches President Pedro Castillo
The Peruvian Congress has impeached President Pedro Castillo and made his vice president Dina Boluarte as the new president. Castillo had tried to dissolve the Congress in a desperate and...
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India from Latin America: Peripherisation, State Building and Demand-led...
Latin America and India have been emerging as significant trade, investment and political partners to each other since the beginning of the new century. The old assumption that these two are marginal...
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External dimensions of Peruvian political crisis
Mexican President Lopez Obrador has refused to recognize the government of the Peruvian interim president Dina Boluarte. He calls the new government as unconstitutional and Boluarte as a puppet of the...
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Latin America Study Centre in the University of Kerala
Last week I was invited to give a series of lectures on Latin American politics, markets, culture and Indo-Latin American relations at the Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Kerala,...
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Conservative Colorado party comes back to power in the elections in Paraguay
In the elections held on Sunday, Santiago Pena of the ruling Colorado party got elected as president of Paraguay with 43% votes. The opposition party candidates Efrain Alegre got 27% and Paraguay Cubas...
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"Optic Nerve", an art novel by Argentine writer Maria Gainza
Argentine writer Maria Gainza in her novel “Optic Nerve” offers a kind of art lesson and appreciation for the readers. The protagonist is an art connoisseur, critic and guide. She frequents the art...
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“Muerte Cruzada (mutually assured death) in President vs Congress battle in...
The Ecuadorian Congress, dominated by leftist parties tried to impeach the centre-right President Guillermo Lasso last month on corruption charges. But the amount involved was insignificant and the...
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Chilean Neoliberalism: Born in Chicago and Buried in Santiago
“The Chile Project: The story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism” is the title of a book just published in May this year. The author, Edwards Sebastian. has narrated the story of the...
View ArticleIndia’s exports to Latin America increase by an impressive 19% in 2022-23
India’s exports to Latin America increase by an impressive 19% in 2022-23India’s exports to Latin America reached a record high of 22.41 billion dollars in 2022-23 (April-March), according to the...
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Colombian novel “Retrospective” by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Colombian novel “Retrospective” by Juan Gabriel Vasquez This is a novel about guerilla wars, revolutions, dictatorships, communism and ideological fanaticism with many heroes and...
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Isabel Allende’s latest novel “The wind knows my name”
Isabel Allende’s latest novel “The wind knows my name” This novel is about Anita, a girl child from El Salvador and Samuel, a Jewish boy from Austria who are orphaned because of the...
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Mexican muralist Diego Rivera
Mexican muralist Diego Rivera – biography by Gerry Souter Diego Rivera is an iconic artist of Mexico. He is celebrated for his famous murals which drew inspiration from Mexican indigenous culture and...
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Venezuelan novel “It Would Be Night in Caracas”
Venezuelan novel “It Would Be Night in Caracas” This is the first novel by a new Venezuelan author Karina Sainz Borgo, who has escaped from the misery of Venezuela and has settled...
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Guatemala’s election result is a good sign of the health of democracy
In the elections held on Sunday, the Guatemalan voters elected Bernardo Arevalo as president with 58% of the votes. This is significant for three fundamental reasons in the context of the Guatemalan...
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Mexican choice for President between two admirable women; one a scientist...
Mexico has two leading candidates for the presidential elections to be held in June 2024. Both are women. Claudia Sheinbaum is from the ruling Morena party and Xochitl Galvez is from the opposition...
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Ecuador elects a well-qualified and wealthy but millennial and moderate...
Ecuador elected Daniel Noboa as President in the elections held on Sunday. At 35, he is the youngest to become the President of the country. His wife Lavinia Valbonesi, age 25, will be the youngest...
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Argentine voters have made smart choices in the elections of 21 October
Argentine voters have made smart choices in the elections of 21 October Before the elections on 21 October, there was a hype by the anti-left western media that Argentina was going have its own...
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Panama’s economy doing fine without a Central Bank in the last hundred years.
Panama’s economy doing fine without a Central Bank in the last hundred years. Javier Milei, the President-elect of Argentina, has promised to close the central bank and dollarize the economy to get the...
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Chile, an authentic laboratory for democratic experiments
In a referendum held yesterday, 56 percent of the Chilean voters defeated a draft centre-right constitution. Last year, the voters defeated a leftist constitution, which was drafted by the...
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Latin America’s economic and political outlook in 2024
Latin America’s GDP growth in 2024 is projected at 1.8%, down from 2.1% in 2023, according to the annual December report of ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean). This lowering...
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“Where there was fire” – Costa Rican novel
"Where there was fire" is the first Costa Rican novel I have read. It is also the first novel written by John Manuel Arias, the Costa Rican author, published in 2023.The novel brings out the life and...
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Argentine writer Hernan Diaz’s novel “Trust”
Hernan Diaz, the Argentine writer settled in New York, was an invitee at the 2024 Jaipur Literature Festival held last month. He spoke about creativity and writing. I was impressed by his brilliant...
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“A history of Violence: Living and dying in Central America” – book by Oscar...
The author of the book, Oscar Martinez, is a journalist from El Salvador. He runs Sala Negra, a crime investigations unit for El Faro, the investigative Central American online magazine based in El...
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