Making Sense of Venezuela's Elections
Venezuela is reaching a critical moment as the country's opposition prepares to choose its candidate in primaries on October 22. The winner will run against Nicolás Maduro in a general election next y...
12 Loka 202322min
Bolivia: The Return of Evo Morales?
Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales has announced he will run again in 2025, likely competing with the current head of the executive, Luis Arce, whom Morales helped elect. The decision is splitting...
5 Loka 202329min
Who's Who in Ecuador's Election
Ecuador is facing many of the same issues we see across Latin America today. Long one of the region’s most peaceful countries, it has recently seen a daunting increase in violence, as international dr...
28 Syys 202330min
Mexico’s Moment?
Mexico’s economy is shifting into a higher gear in 2023, thanks in part to stronger than expected investment from nearshoring. This July, we saw a historic moment as Mexico passed China to become the ...
20 Syys 202323min
Chile: What the 50th Coup Anniversary Tells Us About Politics Today
This month will mark the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile. President Gabriel Boric has made the commemoration of that tragic chapter in Latin American history a major moment in his...
7 Syys 202329min
Is Bolsonaro Done? New Dynamics in Brasília
Recent scandals involving former President Jair Bolsonaro have left Brazil’s conservative movement in a state of flux. Meanwhile, the Lula administration is off to a relatively calm and successful sta...
31 Elo 202333min
A Turning Point for Latin America’s Economies
This is a critical moment for Latin America’s economies, with analysts foreseeing better than expected GDP growth this year in countries like Brazil and Mexico. The outlook, however, is uneven. In Arg...
23 Elo 202331min
Argentina: Javier Milei’s Moment?
The radical libertarian economist Javier Milei placed first in Argentina’s primary election, upsetting the two-party system of the past 20 years. Milei describes climate change as a socialist lie, adv...
16 Elo 202326min
