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.
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.
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.
