Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

Ukraine’s wholesale digitization of government services predates the war, but in the eternal spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste and with the financial support of USAID and the EU, it has been significantly expanded since.

“In a lot of our countries in this region, [the PRC] is the number one trade partner, with the United States number two in most cases.”

AMLO may seem like a curious choice for “Tyrant of the Year,” especially given the fierce competition for the title. But once you see who leads and finances the NGO in question, it all makes a bit more sense. . 

The timing is convenient coming just as Mastercard is piloting a biometric-authenticated payments system in the UK, which will require digital, not physical, wallets.   

“Discovery” of multi-billion dollar “inconsistencies” on Brazilian retail giant’s balance sheet is a timely reminder of the risks posed by supply chain finance, especially in a heavily weakened business environment such as today.

The invasion of the capitol gives Lula the perfect justification for cleaning house, most importantly in the civil service, judiciary and military. It has also, however briefly, united the governments of Latin America against right-wing authoritarianism

“Too many doses, billions in costs – the government [of Germany] wants to cancel the vaccination deal.”

Mexico’s economy was one of the best performers of 2022, despite (or perhaps because of) a whole raft of worker-friendly policies from the AMLO government.

“We are seeing a surreptitious clash, a war that no one dares name, between China and the United States for Peru’s soul.”

Israel was the lab for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, as newly reelected President Benjamin Netanyahu admitted in a recent interview with Jordan Peterson. Yet the health ministry now claims to have mislaid or, even worse, never signed the vaccine agreement. 

Leading the charge are the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, which between them account for roughly three out of every eight people on planet Earth. 

As the Qatargate scandal widens, questions are being asked as to whether its reverberations will reach the Commission, the EU’s executive branch. Recent revelations suggest the EU’s Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell could be implicated.

The thorniest issue remains, of course, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, on which AMLO’s government has tried to stay firm to its neutral position.

Peru continues to stumble from crisis to crisis, scandal to scandal, and president to president. In Argentina one of the towering figures of Latin America’s political left, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, just received a 6-year prison sentence.

To salvage its floundering CBDC, the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank just launched an all-out assault against physical cash in a country that is substantially cash-dependent.