Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

The Conti Group’s cyberattack on Costa Rica continues to metastasize, spreading to 27 government institutions, nine of which have been “seriously affected.”

The roll-out of biometric-authenticated payments is merely the latest example of the accelerating encroachment of biometrics into everyday life. But a global push back is gathering.

Peru’s prime minister, Mirtha Vásquez, claims that Repsol “apparently” did not even have a contingency plan in place for an oil spill.

“The real risk is that — after nearly three decades of summitry — this year’s [Summit of Americas] may be interpreted as a gravestone on U.S. influence in the region.”

Life is getting harder and harder for Europe’s largest lender as it tries desperately to continue bridging two worlds — the West and China — that increasingly appear to be on collision course

Two of Latin America’s most respected dignitaries say the unspeakable about the conflict in Ukraine, setting blood to boil in Western corridors of power. 

The plot keeps getting thicker and thicker.

As Europe’s energy crisis deepens in the East, relations are souring between the EU’s fourth largest economy, Spain, and its largest natural gas supplier, Algeria. Once again, the US has played a major role in escalating tensions.

As the World Bank drives the implementation of digital ID programs across the Global South, its fellow Bretton Woods institution, the IMF, is doing exactly the same for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Fears are rising that the boundaries of the cyber war between Russia and NATO could soon spread beyond Europe.

Within hours of the Electricity Reform’s failure, Mexico’s President AMLO had shifted his focus to new legislation aimed at nationalizing Mexico’s lithium deposits.

Food prices were a huge problem across Latin America even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Thanks to surging fertilizer prices, the problem is getting worse.

Governments across the West are hurtling down a path that could lead us all to a very dark place. 

All eyes are now on Mexico’s electricity reform, which threatens the interests of some of the world’s biggest energy companies, many of them in the U.S.

UK airports and carriers are suffering severe labor shortages, at a time that passenger numbers are surging. Throw in COVID-19 absences to the mixture and it’s a perfect storm for an industry desperately trying to dig itself out of the mother of all crises.