At this week's AI summit in India, Brazil showcased its nascent policies toward the technology. Brazilian officials drew up much of the country's draft AI governance based on the EU model, and while they argue their approach strikes a balance 🧵

In Cuba, the top U.S. envoy said Washington is in talks with unspecified local officials in an effort to bring about political change this year. He suggested his team favored a repeat of the Venezuela strategy 🧵

Costa Rica's election was the region's latest to reward a tough-on-crime candidate against a backdrop of rising concerns about insecurity. Drug smuggling routes have grown following the opening of a new port. But Costa Rica's openness 🧵

Copper's soar to record-high prices this month—and projections of a coming global supply crunch—are being closely watched in Chile and Peru, which consistently rank in the world's top three producers. Chile is planning to increase production, while experts in Peru warn 🧵

Carney’s Davos speech on the world order rang familiar to many Latin American policymakers, who have spent years testing active non-alignment in an effort to avoid being boxed in by spheres-of-influence assumptions. In @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/23/l...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at factors affecting whether, and how, Cuba is the next target of a major U.S. intervention. 🧵

In the wake of Maduro’s capture, several Latin American officials have defended international law and the need to avoid a “Wild West” in their public comments. But the Trump administration has signaled little interest in such arguments, most recently Trump himself 🧵

A look back at the year in Latin American politics: efforts at trade diversification amid U.S. pressure, the fights for Venezuela’s future & to keep climate cooperation alive, the new politics of migration, & why regional historical dramas won global film kudos. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/26/l...

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: As U.S. threats to 🇻🇪 have intensified, China has updated its public strategy document on Latin America & the Caribbean for the first time in almost a decade. It reads as an indirect rebuttal to Trump’s recent National Security Strategy. 🧵

Today's @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief: It’s kickoff time for a process that could change the biggest rulebook on trade in North America. A review that one 🇨🇦 expert said risks foreign-policy catastrophe is unfolding as the parties to a current deal prepare to jointly host the World Cup. 🧵

I wrote a post-COP update for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. With the former pillars of multilateral climate politics—resource transfer from rich to poor countries & U.S.-China stability—being upended, 🇧🇷's focus on green industrial policy at COP is one example of how climate diplomacy is evolving. 🧵

In this week’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief, Trump announces a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine as he weighs in on Honduras’s presidential election, endorsing a conservative candidate and pardoning another member of the same party from a U.S. cocaine importation conviction. 🧵

In today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief, elections last weekend offered clues about what appears to be an ascendant right-wing moment in the region. Most Chileans backed right-wing candidates in the 1st round presidential vote. But a referendum in Ecuador 🧵

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief looks at some of the new climate strategies that Latin American policymakers are showcasing at COP30, including Mexico's new emissions target, Colombia's plan for a summit on fossil fuel phase-out, 🧵

For @foreignpolicy.com I did a deep dive on Brazil's effort to keep climate cooperation alive despite highly adverse geopolitics. While some have said the U.S. retreat on this issue creates an opening for China, Brazil is also flexing its voice as a middle power and raising 🧵

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...