https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:05:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:00:38 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142306

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei set off Wednesday for his 14th trip to the United States to take part in the inaugural session of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:52:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141659

“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:03:21 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137536

BRUSSELS (AP) — Italy on Friday gave crucial support to plans by the European Union to seal a huge free trade deal with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela that has been negotiated for over 25 … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/in-mileis-argentina-austerity-economics-manifests-as-a-mental-health-crisis/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/in-mileis-argentina-austerity-economics-manifests-as-a-mental-health-crisis/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:14:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=134460

In her nine years at the Laura Bonaparte national mental health hospital in Buenos Aires City, Julieta Chevallier has seen suffering widen and deepen. “When people finally come to see … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/in-mileis-argentina-austerity-economics-manifests-as-a-mental-health-crisis/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-hidden-cost-of-brazils-climate-crisis-for-uk-supermarkets/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-hidden-cost-of-brazils-climate-crisis-for-uk-supermarkets/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:48:42 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133968

Most people in the UK have little idea that the food in their fridge is closely connected to extreme weather now sweeping Brazil. The UK imports more food from Brazil … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-hidden-cost-of-brazils-climate-crisis-for-uk-supermarkets/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/uk-judge-finds-bhp-group-liable-in-brazils-worst-environmental-disaster/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/uk-judge-finds-bhp-group-liable-in-brazils-worst-environmental-disaster/#respond Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:37:20 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133808

  A judge in the United Kingdom has ruled that global mining giant BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, in a lawsuit the claimants’ lawyers previously valued … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/uk-judge-finds-bhp-group-liable-in-brazils-worst-environmental-disaster/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploitation-on-mexican-farms-bananas-are-worth-more-than-us/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploitation-on-mexican-farms-bananas-are-worth-more-than-us/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:07:44 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133708

One afternoon, in mid-May, Nancy was eating with five of her coworkers. All of them are Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya women from the municipality of Cobán — located in Alta Verapaz, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploitation-on-mexican-farms-bananas-are-worth-more-than-us/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-coal-still-clings-on-in-renewable-energy-powerhouse-brazil/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-coal-still-clings-on-in-renewable-energy-powerhouse-brazil/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:05:36 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133705

CANDIOTA, Brazil, Nov 8 (Reuters) – One of Brazil’s last coal plants roared back to life in July after a powerful business group invested millions to keep its turbines turning … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-coal-still-clings-on-in-renewable-energy-powerhouse-brazil/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/microsoft-google-say-their-data-centers-create-thousands-of-jobs-their-permit-filings-say-otherwise/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/microsoft-google-say-their-data-centers-create-thousands-of-jobs-their-permit-filings-say-otherwise/#respond Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:04:02 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133706

Microsoft and Google say their data centers in Chile would create thousands of jobs. Permit filings show the largest data centers have the potential to create only hundreds of full-time … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/microsoft-google-say-their-data-centers-create-thousands-of-jobs-their-permit-filings-say-otherwise/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/bioeconomically-speaking/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/bioeconomically-speaking/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:15:17 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133032

Sofia Casas warns of another shade of greenwash. With COP-30 approaching this November in Belém – in the heart of the Amazon – the term "bioeconomy" has become a powerful … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/bioeconomically-speaking/feed/ 0