United States

• Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 07:41 UTC

  Milei’s 2025 challenges: Between Argentina's mid-term elections and the IMF

  

  By Alejandro Werner (*) - The author thanks Ignacio Albe, Olivier Blanchard, Martina Copelman, Joseph Gagnon, José de Gregorio, Patrick Honohan, Douglas Irwin, Maurice Obstfeld, and other PIIE colleagues for their comments and suggestions.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 07:32 UTC

  Like old friends, PM Starmer/Trump; and Lamy/Rubio agree to meet soon

  

  Communication between British PM Keir Starmer cabinet and US President Donald Trump team seem very fluid, speaking like lifelong friends and buddies. That was what occurred on Monday when PM Starmer spoke to President Trump and on Sunday with Foreign Secretary David Lamy and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In both cases the leaders agreed to meet soon.

• Monday, January 27th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Petro and Trump exchange threats amid troubled deportation flights

  

  Washington and Bogotá played cat-and-mouse this weekend after the Colombian leftwing Government Gustavo Petro refused to allow US military planes carrying deportees to land in the South American country. In response, President Donald Trump slapped 25% tariffs on all Colombian imports, after which Petro adopted a reciprocal measure.

• Monday, January 27th 2025 - 09:14 UTC

  Honduran President calls for “emergency” Celac Summit

  

  Honduran President Xiomara Castro launched an appeal Sunday for leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to convene “urgently” to discuss the ongoing crisis sparked by US President Donald Trump's decision to speed up deportations.

• Monday, January 27th 2025 - 08:39 UTC

  Itamaraty outraged by US' handcuffing of Brazilian deportees

  

  Brazil's Foreign Ministry expressed its outrage after the US Government placed handcuffs on every member of a batch of 88 irregular migrants who were to be flown back to their country last Friday. Given this “degrading treatment,” it was announced at the Itammaraty Palace, the headquarters of South America's largest country's diplomacy, that the Government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was to remain attentive to the issue.

• Friday, January 24th 2025 - 22:39 UTC

  Trump orders all files regarding JFK, RFK, and MLK murders disclosed

  

  US President Donald Trump's executive order issuing spree during his first week in office included the declassification in the interest of transparency of all documents pertaining to the murders of then-President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1962, as well as those of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (RFK) and civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in 1968.

• Friday, January 24th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

  Trump reviews his four days in office during WEF speech

  

  US President Donald Trump suggested four days into his second term in office that companies should manufacture their products at home or face import tariffs. During a video appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland), the Republican leader insisted his constituency had entrusted him to bring about change and thence his carrot-and-stick approach to private investment.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 22:14 UTC

  Rubio ratifies US recognition of González Urrutia as Venezuela's true President

  

  Venezuelan opposition leaders were told by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Donald Trump administration would hold Edmundo González Urrutia as the truthful President of Venezuela following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won based only on a declaration from the National Electoral Council (CNE) later upheld by the Supreme Court, both of which are under the control of the Chavista regime.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 10:21 UTC

  Chargé d'Affairs takes over US Embassy in Asunción on an interim basis

  

  As controversial US Ambassador Marc Ostfield completed his assignment in Asunción, the US diplomatic mission was left temporarily under Chargé d'Affairs Amir Masliyah -who has been Deputy Mission Chief since July 2022.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 21:13 UTC

  Milei would have no qualms breaking up with Mercosur if need be for FTA with US

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei said in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos (Switzerland) that if breaking up with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) was a requirement to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, he would not hesitate to do it.