#Latin America

The Economist Intelligence Unit Latin America Outlook 2024

January 26, 2024January 24, 2024

Political risk persists, but investment opportunities Surge Executive Summary of Content: Democracy is on the ballot in key elections in 2024 Still-tight global financing conditions will weigh on the growth outlook El Niño will bring even more disruption Critical mineral development will gather steam Nearshoring will present more opportunities amid global fragmentation Major infrastructure programmes …

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Latin America is on an unknown course.

December 17, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Simplifying what is happening in Latin America in political, economic, and social terms leads to a failure to perceive long-term trends. Instead, analyses tend to start from immediate circumstances to extrapolate long-term trends. A first warning is that simplifying trends into “left” …

Iberoamerican Summit

March 26, 2023March 26, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The 28th Iberoamerican Summit ended with a minimum agreement to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries. Still, it was unable to agree on that criterion in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to political differences between …

Foreign Policy: Only for Anti-Democracy Friends.

March 4, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO’s foreign policy has failed because it promotes an authoritarian ideology that most countries in Latin America do not accept. Examples abound, including his new “Latin American anti-inflation plan”, based on rhetorical, simplistic, and ideological ideas about the origin of inflation, as …

Guild of Astute Stuburns and their Godfather.

February 11, 2023February 11, 2023

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce With his aspiration to be the leader of the Latin America left dead, AMLO resigns himself to being the godfather of dictatorships: Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Today he parades with the Cuban President, exalting a non-existent “revolution”, and is silent in the …

AMLO, Petro: War on Drugs?

November 27, 2022November 27, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …

Mexico as a Declining Power

November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Brazilian candidate to head the Inter-American Development Bank, Ilan Goldfajn, won the leadership in an election that pitted two Latin American giants, Mexico and Brazil, against each other. Goldfajn won the election with 80.08% of the votes cast. Argentina, which had …

A Leftist Turn in Latin America?

November 5, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The lights and shadows of Latin America’s supposed shift to the left need to be explored. Does it mean being ‘left-wing’ simply because a leader or party proclaims itself as such? To understand a government’s ideology, it is necessary to explore its …

A Testimonial from Chile

September 4, 2022September 4, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The result of the Constitutional referendum in Chile, with 88% of the ballot boxes counted: 38% Approve, 62% Reject. Early in the morning and, therefore, when the voting continued, I received this testimonial from Patricia Morales, founder and former President of Chile’s …

A Successful 4T… Turkey

August 27, 2022August 27, 2022

Antonio Navalón We live in an era in which the deluge of changes has provoked a flood and disruption of everything we thought we knew and understood. When a century from now, what has happened during this era is analyzed, it will surely come to …