Geoff White

Aug 25, 2024 | inroadsjournal.ca | Geoff White

Image: Javier Milei, via Wikimedia Commons. The eccentric bushy-haired Javier Milei – who wielded a chainsaw in campaign appearances and hinted at receiving guidance from his deceased pet dog – was lifted to the Argentine presidency last December on a wave of voter frustration and anger. The self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” captured 56 per cent of the vote in a runoff against his opponent from the party of Argentina’s long-enduring Peronist tradition.

Jun 24, 2024 | inroadsjournal.ca | Geoff White

Selva Almada, Not a River. Translated by Annie McDermott. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf, 2024. 104 pages. Argentina’s enduring economic crises make no obvious appearance in the novels of Selva Almada, whose latest, Not A River, is shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Her portrait of life in the subtropical northeastern region of Argentina, in fictional towns of Corrientes, Entre Ríos and Paraná provinces, is painted on a backdrop of poverty, despair and strangled hopes.

Jun 24, 2024 | inroadsjournal.ca | Geoff White

Image: Javier Milei, via Wikimedia Commons. The eccentric bushy-haired Javier Milei – who wielded a chainsaw in campaign appearances and hinted at receiving guidance from his deceased pet dog – was lifted to the Argentine presidency last December on a wave of voter frustration and anger. The self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” captured 56 per cent of the vote in a runoff against his opponent from the party of Argentina’s long-enduring Peronist tradition.

Jun 11, 2024 | almendron.com | Geoff White

Cutting-edge financial technology is fast becoming the handmaiden of organised crime, helping some of the world’s most dangerous crooks to move and hide ill-gotten gains. This situation will only get worse, unless governments and the technology industry can find common ground. Money-laundering has a history almost as long as crime itself. But it became much more sophisticated during the cocaine-cowboy era of the 1980s, when narcotics flooded into America.

Jun 5, 2024 | penguin.co.uk | Geoff White

Brought to you by Penguin. There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. Money laundering has been around for centuries. For as long as people have been stealing money, there's been an industry ready to wash it. But recent tech innovations have created vastly complex new systems for laundering that threaten to overwhelm authorities, destabilise economies and disrupt societies.