Strait of Magellan: Chile Denies Joint Patrols With Argentina
Argentina’s defence minister described combined naval patrols. Chile says its navy polices the strait alone. A decree from 2021 sits...
September 14, 2026Section
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US Venezuela Oil Imports Hit 630,000 Barrels a Day
Fourteen months ago America bought almost no Venezuelan crude. Trump now calls it keeping the oil. The figures behind a...
September 14, 2026
Chile and the Falklands War: What the British Files Show
Airfields, airspace, a radar at Balmaceda and British aircraft in Chilean colours. Two Chilean journalists went to the London archives...
September 14, 2026
Ecuador Removes Its Air Force Chief After a Memo on US Flights
He wrote to ask how American aircraft could lawfully use a second Ecuadorian base. Two days later a presidential decree...
September 14, 2026
Guatemala Blockades: Arévalo Says Someone Is Paying the Protesters
Two weeks of fuel blockades have cost hundreds of millions. The president says criminals are financing them, and named three...
September 14, 2026
Moraes Impeachment: The Senate Queue That Has Never Moved
Dozens of requests to remove Brazil’s most contested judge sit in a Senate drawer. One man decides whether any of...
September 14, 2026
Brazil’s Establishment Backs Fachin Over the Supreme Court Crisis
Ministers from three rival governments, bankers and union bosses signed the same paragraph. The second open letter in five days...
September 14, 2026
Milei Filled 166 Judicial Posts in Argentina in a Year
Judges, prosecutors and defenders, almost all confirmed unanimously by a Senate the government does not control. The backlog behind the...
September 14, 2026
Chile Recession: Two Measures, Two Answers
Two standard ways of reading the same quarters give two answers. A former central bank governor says recession. The finance...
September 14, 2026