Mac Margolis

Whether it’s standing up to corporate tobacco, pioneering the rainbow agenda or branding Big Marijuana, Uruguay’s public-policy chutzpah stands out in the Americas. So it was little surprise when this nation of 3.4 million joined the world’s pacesetters in vaccine rollout. Some 28 of every 100…

Argentina is in a familiar place, buried in debt, unloved in the financial markets and at the mercy of the International Monetary Fund — or is it the other way around? When a country owes $45 billion, the balance due on the IMF’s biggest rescue loan ever in 2018, it’s not so much in hock to its…

As Argentines headed to the polls for primary elections last Sunday, there was a puzzler for voters: How to choose between political campaigns that demonize one another as ruin incarnate, but whose candidates have raced to claim the middle ground? To hear it from officialdom, incumbent President…

We don't yet know what set off the fire last weekend that reduced Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum to a charred shell. Firefighters were still combing the ruins on Tuesday for clues to the blaze that razed Latin America’s marquee science museum along with most of its irreplaceable collection. …

Latin American corruption-busters have taken down many a tainted bigshot in recent years, but the fall of Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski marks a new twist to the hemispheric reckoning. The former Wall Street executive denied any wrongdoing, claiming he was the victim of a “crisis of…