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Libertarian president Javier Milei has been facing a gathering currency crisis after his party suffered a stinging defeat in local elections earlier this month. The peso has shed about a fifth of its

Sarkozy behind bars: the conviction dividing France ...

Imagine a country where a hard-right populist president loses an election, urges followers on social media to rise up and storm government buildings, and is eventually handed a 27-year sentence for st

Argentina is undergoing a dramatic economic surge that many describe as a new dawn for South America’s second-largest nation. For the first time in over a decade, inflation is falling sharply, and Arg

Passing sentence in Brazil: the jailing of a ...

When conservative billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin caught the eye of Le Monde last year, the newspaper noted how stealthily he was “advancing his pawns” in the chess game of hard-right French politic