Ignacio Portes is The Brazilian Report's Latin America editor. Based in Buenos Aires, he has covered politics, macro, markets and diplomacy for the Financial Times, Al Jazeera and the Buenos Aires Herald.
The 25 events that marked Latin America in the first quarter of this century, from Peru’s Alberto Fujimori fleeing to Japan to Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro’s fraudulent re-election.
Trump’s National Security Strategy sees Latin America as a buffer zone to protect US interests. And rhetoric for military escalation in Venezuela shifts from drugs to oil.
José Antonio Kast will be the most right-wing president in Chile’s recent history, but he is also a career politician in a relatively stable country, two big differences with Milei and Bolsonaro.
The latest strife between Mexico and the US comes from a 1944 water-sharing agreement. And the hype around Argentina’s return to bond markets under Javier Milei.
Franco Parisi says Chilean pollsters’ mistakes might have cost him the presidency. And how farmers in Panama produced the world’s most expensive coffee beans.
Kast edges closer to Chile’s presidency after backing from Kaiser and Matthei. And Daniel Noboa’s right-wing agenda finds its limit in Ecuador’s referendum.
Evelyn Matthei, José Antonio Kast and Johannes Kaiser fight over a single spot in Chile’s runoff. And Ecuador’s referendum could open the door to constitutional reform and US military bases.
Six years after mass-scale street protests, Chileans see the movement with a more critical eye. And Costa Rica is trying to reverse centuries of cattle ranching deforestation.
Bolivia’s new president was backed by Morales’s base, but he will need right-wingers to govern. And violence escalates in Ecuador as indigenous groups protest cuts to fuel subsidies.
The two candidates fighting for Bolivia’s presidency in Sunday's runoff. And tension in Venezuela grows as the US flaunts CIA and military involvement.
Unprecedented attack on Uruguay’s chief prosecutor spreads fears of narco takeover. And Chile’s news parody show 31 Minutos reaches global audiences thanks to NPR’s Tiny Desk.
