Its creditor was none other than China, the lender to poor countries whose growing footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean was ushering in new roads and housing, but also draining government ...

Head-of-state meetings also play their part. Dési Bouterse, president from 2010 to 2020, visited China in 2019, and his successor, Chan Santokhi, who succeeded him in 2020, paid an official visit ...

When Chandrikapersad “Chan” Santokhi assumed the presidency of South America’s only Dutch-speaking nation five years ago, he told the country’s congress that despite its gold and oil reser ...