Today's @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: At APEC, 🇨🇱, 🇲🇽, & 🇵🇪 moved trade talks forward w countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, and New Zealand. The look toward Asia is part of Latin American countries’ broad efforts at trade diversification. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/a...

This week’s @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief: Hurricane Melissa brought the costs of climate change into catastrophic focus. Battering countries w different access to global markets, it also underscored there is no one-size-fits-all solution to fund climate adaptation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/30/h...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: Outrage over crime—and pre-election political calculations—finally ousted 🇵🇪’s Dina Boluarte. Unrest has continued under her replacement, while as elsewhere in the world, youth demonstrators have embraced the Gen Z slogan. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/17/p...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: Four Caribbean countries launched an EU-style free movement regime, saying easing migration is part of their economic development strategy. It reflects at least a partial shift in regional debates on migration policy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: the UN Security Council greenlit a larger and more powerful security mission to Haiti on the same day that U.S. trade benefits for the country, which helped cultivate its largest export sector, expired. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/h...

This week's @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief is about UNGA's surprises, including Trump's “chemistry” with Lula and the pledge of an unusually direct U.S. bailout for Milei. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/26/u...

Today's @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief: 🇺🇸 declared 🇨🇴 failed at drug control obligations but stopped short of halting support $. Despite leader-to-leader tensions, lower level officials & civil society advocates helped preserve some cooperation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/c...

In @foreignpolicy.com: 🇧🇷’s top court convicted Bolsonaro & allies of attempting a coup to stay in power after losing the 2022 vote. In a country w a long history of coups, it was the 1st time a civilian court convicted military members of coup-related charges. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/b...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief: how different leaders in the region reacted to Trump’s highly unusual Caribbean strike reveals not only how they are positioning themselves in relation to Washington, but also Maduro’s relative isolation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/04/t...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief, Amazon rainforest countries held their 2nd leaders summit in 3 years. But more summits did not necessarily mean more 🌳 protection, w/ deforestation rising in 🇨🇴 & 🇧🇴 in 2024. The countries did endorse an innovative plan for financing (1/2)

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief looks at how 🇧🇴’s foreign policy could change as MAS dominance ends & the country shifts right. It will hold a presidential runoff between a former president who admires 🇦🇷’s Javier Milei & a more conciliatory senator. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/22/b...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief, Haiti gets a new leader of its transitional government, Peru strikes a trade agreement with Indonesia, and Bolivia prepares for elections that could usher in a major political shift. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/15/h...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: 🇸🇻 scraps presidential term limits, a move condemned by pro-democracy watchdogs when it happened elsewhere in the region. Now, diplomats say there is a chilling effect at one major such group, the OAS. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/e...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief is about Colombia’s trial of former President Álvaro Uribe, South American countries receiving significant migrant flows in the first semester, and where Brazil and Mexico landed—for now—with U.S. tariffs. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/01/c...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: the recent U.S.-Brazil escalation can be analyzed from many angles. Attacking Brazil’s digital payments technology could reflect not only attempts to boost U.S. companies (1/2) foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/24/b...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief previews the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro and looks at how Brazil is trying to put its stamp on the group amid its expansion. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/04/b...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about the COP30 warm-up talks in Bonn. They produced new draft language on a just transition away from fossil fuels, even as 🇧🇷 held a controversial auction of oil drilling rights off the coast of the Amazon River. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/b...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at regional leaders’ priorities at the G7 summit. For Mexico’s Sheinbaum, whose predecessor never attended the event, the trip signaled a shift toward a more globally oriented foreign policy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/19/b...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about an effort to put Latin America on the global AI map via a large language model that draws from deep archives of data in the region. It aims to address gaps & oversimplifications from models trained mostly in English. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/l...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at 🇲🇽’s shock therapy to its judiciary. Plans for the nationwide election had already rankled trade partners before it produced a top court full of judges tied to the ruling party on Sunday. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/m...

Today in @ccosborn.bsky.social's Latin America Brief: It's been a big week for Suriname, which held elections on Sunday and saw its former foreign minister take office as OAS secretary-general.

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about the uproar in El Salvador over what experts say is a swift closing of civic space, with journalists fleeing, a top government critic arrested, and a new law taxing and tracking nonprofits. Many see echoes of 🇳🇮. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/e...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about the CELAC-China forum & related meetings. While Colombia’s BRI accession made headlines, the week also showed how Brazil’s China policy has evolved alongside its industrial policy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/16/c...

Beautiful and nuanced obituary of Mujica by Búsqueda's Guillermo Draper for @foreignpolicy.com, discussing Mujica's legacy inside and outside of Uruguay, including his stances on hemispheric relations and his convention-bucking move to legalize marijuana—as security policy, first and foremost.

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief, Trump expands his approach of FTO listings for Latin American crime groups to 🇭🇹. The move underscored the lack of a unified strategy in the country despite the many actors engaged there, @romainlecour.bsky.social said. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/h...

Today's @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about two long-anticipated tests for Argentina's Milei: reaching a new IMF deal and partially floating the peso. The float has so far proved naysayers wrong, while the deal tells a larger story of 🇺🇸-🇦🇷 relations. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/02/a...

Today in @foreignpolicy.com: How Latin America produced a nonaligned pope. Not only Francis’s experience of the Cold War in Argentina but also the 🇦🇷 spiritual tradition of theology of the people influenced his approach to the Vatican’s geopolitics. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/25/p...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief, Ecuador’s Noboa is reelected president, Chile continues its large-scale battery boom, and Peruvians remember the iconoclastic Mario Vargas Llosa. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/18/e...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief: regional leaders talk trade and the UN Secretary-General election in 🇭🇳, 🇨🇱 enlarges its estimate of lithium resources, and an Indigenous team from 🇪🇨 makes history at the South American Cup. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/c...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about how officials in the region are responding to Wednesday’s round of U.S. tariffs—which some expected would be more severe. Plus, what Gabriel Boric and Narendra Modi agreed on during Boric's visit to India.  foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/w...

Today in @foreignpolicy.com: Lula is hosted as 🇯🇵's 1st state visit since 2019 as both look to diversify trade & political ties. He went on to 🇻🇳. Can Asian countries help 🇧🇷 weather what one diplomat called the "very fluid global economic & political environment"? foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/28/l...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief: How regional leaders are responding to the deportation of Venezuelans to 🇸🇻 🇭🇳 remembers a Garifuna music icon 🇨🇴 and 🇧🇧 rethink their climate finance plans foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/21/t...

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: the near-shutdown of asylum at the 🇺🇸-🇲🇽 border has mixed up migration patterns in the Americas. More people are seeking refugee status in 🇲🇽—drawing a spotlight on the strengths & pitfalls of its own asylum system. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/t...

A Paraguayan candidate for OAS secretary-general who sought to cozy up to Trump dropped out of the race this week, as countries of all ideological stripes rallied behind his Surinamese opponent, FP's @ccosborn.bsky.social reports in our latest Latin America Brief.

In this week’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief, amid tariff threats and aid cuts, Latin American countries—and 🇨🇦—united in rare consensus for the OAS leadership election. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/06/m...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about how Latin American countries are trying to navigate the whiplash of Trump’s pivot toward Russia, the start of carnival in 🇵🇪, and 🇨🇴-chaired overtime biodiversity talks foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/t...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about Bolsonaro’s indictment in 🇧🇷, progress toward an AI language model in 🇨🇱, and reactions to 🇺🇸 designation of criminal groups. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/b...

Looking for love? You’re not alone. Foreign Policy looked at the world’s biggest international reality dating shows—and what they say about the global state of romance. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/r...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at the why the latest 🇨🇴 cabinet shakeup is especially consequential, the results of 🇪🇨’s first round presidential election, and 🇬🇹’s national marimba day. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/c...

I dug into data and made 5 charts @cfr.org to show how Trump’s Mexico tariffs if effective could shift gears in US auto market and why such tariffs may further elevate the comparative advantage of Chinese EV makers at the cost of US automakers. 🚗 All 5 available link: www.cfr.org/blog/tariff-...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief is about the conversations that Trump’s tariff threat prompted in 🇲🇽. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/m...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief is about how the halt on U.S. foreign aid is being felt across the region, with freezes and uncertainty on activities from refugee services to violence prevention to environmental preservation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/31/t...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief is about how 🇲🇽 is beginning to craft a Trump policy amid a wave of executive actions that affect the bilateral relationship. Plus, violence on the 🇨🇴-🇻🇪 border spells a breakdown in Petro’s Total Peace strategy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/t...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about how 🇻🇪’s Maduro has isolated himself ahead of tomorrow’s inauguration. The event has been marked by protests and the brief detention of opposition leader Machado, which sparked domestic and international outcry. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/09/v...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief is about stories we're following in 2025, including strategies for responding to a heavy-handed 🇺🇸, EV rollouts and emissions plans, and 🇧🇷 taking the helm of BRICS. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/03/l...

I've written @foreignpolicy.com's annual elections roundup for four years now, but this is the first one I've posted on Bluesky! Here are 12 elections to follow in 2025—in Germany, Tanzania, Bolivia, and beyond.

A lot happened in Latin America in 2024! FP's @ccosborn.bsky.social rounds up the most important stories and trends in this week's newsletter.

My recommendation for @foreignpolicy.com's year-end reads is @alexcuadros.bsky.social true tale of a recently-contacted Indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon—and how their ambitions ran up against those of the 🇧🇷 government & dynamics of the global diamond trade foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/23/h...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief is about how Trump may shake up U.S. policy toward Venezuela as both countries hurtle toward inaugurations, the jitters behind Brazil’s currency drop, and how El Salvador backed down on Bitcoin. foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/20/v...

Following a disputed July election, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to be inaugurated for a new term just 10 days before Trump takes office. FP's @ccosborn.bsky.social reports on the future of U.S. Venezuela policy in today's Latin America Brief.