Debt & Austerity

As Chinese investment reshapes Colombia's infrastructure, the country's longstanding alliance with the United States enters a new era of strategic balancing.

The “Donroe Doctrine” is compelling Latin American governments into arbitration courts that benefit large multinational corporations, with limited success.

Verónica Gago and Lucí Cavallero’s book completes a trilogy that takes debt seriously as a feminist problem—one that operates not as a momentary burden but as a lasting mechanism of dispossession.

A brutal triple femicide exposes how women’s bodies are the battlefield of a war the authorities refuse to name.

Unprecedented state violence against retirees and their allies has failed to quash popular discontent at the increasing precarity of life in Argentina.

Ecuador’s historic debt-for-nature swap promises to bridge the international funding gap for biodiversity conservation, but island residents say it erodes sovereignty and empowers foreign interests.

The election of the country’s first woman president comes after years of corruption and economic insecurity.

In Argentina, sexual dissidents mobilize transversal alliances to denounce indebtedness as a tool of capitalist displacement and violence.

Ecuador held its general election on February 9. Defying the polls, Ecuadorians will be heading to a runoff race in April to choose its next president.

Jonathan Katz's book about the career of a decorated Marine turned critic attests to the symbiotic relationship between militarism and U.S. commercial expansion.

Falling central bank reserves spark speculation and threaten inflation, increasing frictions within the MAS party.

As the government closed a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund, Argentine society revisited painful memories from its biggest financial crisis in recent history.