Diego Laje

The hard­est part about get­ting 5G tech­nol­o­gy in Ar­genti­na may be man­ag­ing the US-Chi­na bat­tle for re­gion­al dom­i­nance.

Some in­dige­nous Chileans be­lieve the farms are killing off ma­rine life and also threat­en­ing their com­mu­ni­ties’ fu­ture.

Some Venezue­lans in Ar­genti­na make a liv­ing by tak­ing ad­van­tage of a hi-tech, low-skill, but in­se­cure em­ploy­ment niche.

Grow­ing de­mand for bat­tery stor­age and lithi­um could be a sil­ver lin­ing for Chile’s min­ing in­dus­try.

Pow­er out­ages and oth­er in­fra­struc­ture is­sues weigh on the minds of vot­ers in the run-up to the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.

South Amer­i­can black­out adds to em­bat­tled Pres­i­dent Mauri­cio Macri’s elec­toral woes as he seeks re­elec­tion in 2019.

The le­gal de­ci­sion marks a rare suc­cess for a grass­roots move­ment and could, over time, spur more ac­tivism.

Ar­genti­na’s econ­o­my may keep shrink­ing – and that’s like­ly to im­pact the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.