From accounting to banking, public service to politics and from academia to Bolivia's leader. Luis Arce was inaugurated in November of 2020, after a long tenure as the finance minister of former president Evo Morales. Americas Now anchor, Elaine Reyes, sat down with him to talk about the pandemic, climate change and, of course, Bolivia´s economic situation.
20 years ago the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shocked the course of geopolitics. It was particularly threatening for a community in California that saw destruction in both their home country and their host country. Correspondent Mike Kirsch reports on the largest A...
The pandemic has brought about the biggest shock to the global economy in decades. No country was prepared, but some were less prepared than others. Argentina was already two years into a recession when the first cases of the coronavirus were detected. And the country is notorious for its economi...
COVID-19 vaccinations are starting to increase in most Latin American countries. But for months there was a scarcity of vaccines. Thousands traveled north looking for inoculations. Airports were full and airfares rose to pre-pandemic levels. Alasdair Baverstock has the story.
