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.
De la Espriella’s first round win signals a likely right-wing turn for Colombia. And a growing number of Latin Americans want to copy China’s development model.
Abelardo de la Espriella is the favorite to face Iván Cepeda in a runoff in Colombia. And Ecuador returns to international bond markets after painful subsidy cuts.
Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights clash in Chile. And why José Antonio Kast’s security promises are rapidly losing credibility.
The forces that tried to steal the presidency in 2023 are losing ground in Guatemala. Diminishing press freedoms add more worries about Ecuador’s democratic future.
Audios allege that the US, Israel and Argentina are plotting to build a regional propaganda hub. And more warning signs about Latin America’s aging population.
An ethno-nationalist military leader complicates Sánchez’s presidential aspirations in Peru. And Mexico resists extraditing Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya to the United States.
Fended from the US, Haitian migrants now dream of Monterrey and Mexico City. And Washington could indict top Morena officials for ties with drug cartels.
Record interest rates trigger central bank clash for Colombia’s Gustavo Petro. El Salvador approves life sentences for teenagers in constitutional reform.
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.
