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 late dictator’s daughter awaits a rival in Peru’s runoff. And Mexico joins a court case against Trump’s immigration enforcement unit in California.
The secretive military conglomerate at the heart of Cuba’s transition talks. And, in Chile, Kast and Boric trade amnesties for Estallido Social-era inmates.
Petro’s New York drug cases and Uribe Turbay’s assassins shake up Colombia’s election. And Argentina remembers its most brutal military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
Chinese undersea cable plans trigger US sanctions on Chile. And Mercosur countries are moving fast to ratify last month’s trade deal with the European Union.
El Mencho’s killing shows Mexico’s new approach towards cartels. And why Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa went from mining champion to halting production in Amazon provinces.
Two weeks before its election, Costa Rica said an activist hired a hitman to kill Rodrigo Chaves. And Claudia Sheinbaum celebrates a big drop in homicides in Mexico.
The capture of Nicolás Maduro has set alarm bells ringing in Havana. And a look at Diosdado Cabello, the enforcer at odds with new Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez.
