Andrés Velasco

What’s really driving the Trump administration’s war against elite universities

The president’s behaviour exposes the truth behind his tariff fusillade: it is not about the US economy, but about his desire to exercise unilateral power around the world

The writer reflects on how the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet’s Chile has changed

The Kazan summit’s communique calls for greater use of Brics members’ currencies in trade among themselves, but the writer sees no progress on the part of the group to challenge America

Why voters support misguided economic policies even after they have failed repeatedly

Eighty years ago, Latin America, far removed from turmoil elsewhere, missed the opportunity to reshape its economies and societies, with the growth of the 1940s giving way to financial and economic cr...

WHEN a right-wing politician with authoritarian leanings – think Donald Trump – courts a genocidal dictator like Vladimir Putin, we recoil in distaste but are not surprised. But when a former human ri...

Has floating their currencies insulated countries from external shocks? Not entirely.

IN MAY 2021, Chileans elected a constitutional convention where the far left reigned supreme and the right had fewer than the one-third of the seats required to block controversial provisions. That co...

The US$100 billion per year that rich countries promised back in 2009 to provide to finance developing countries’ green transitions is yet to materialise. There’s also the matter of how to ensure that...