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LatAm Report

😰 Argentina flirts with another debt default

Sep 16, 2025

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4 min read

😰 Argentina flirts with another debt default

Investors panic as Javier Milei’s administration faces billions in maturities over the coming years. And why Colombia is the rainiest country in the world.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🤖 Chip wars reach Latin America

Sep 12, 2025

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4 min read

🤖 Chip wars reach Latin America

The limits of Latin America’s push to build semiconductors. And debate around artificial intelligence opportunities in the region.

Ignacio Portes
Sophia Santos-Pearcy
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🥊 Milei on the ropes

Sep 9, 2025

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5 min read

🥊 Milei on the ropes

After a year of hype, 2025 has been much harsher for Argentina’s libertarian president. And the proposal for a new international mission in Haiti.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

💥 Caribbean showboating

Sep 5, 2025

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2 min read

💥 Caribbean showboating

Extreme measures under the guise of “war on drugs” have paved the way for numerous crises and violations in the past. Will history repeat itself?

Lucas Berti
Lucas Berti

LatAm Report

👬 Being Bukele

Sep 2, 2025

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2 min read

👬 Being Bukele

From Central America to the Southern Cone, the right-wing alliance is flexing its muscles, betting on tough-on-crime policies as crime remains a regional concern.

Lucas Berti
Sophia Santos-Pearcy
Lucas Berti, +1

LatAm Report

🗡️ Coke and dagger

Aug 29, 2025

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4 min read

🗡️ Coke and dagger

Is Nicolás Maduro heading a drug trafficking organization, as the Trump administration claims? And Bolivia’s courts shift right in the post-MAS era.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🚁 Normalizing drone warfare

Aug 26, 2025

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4 min read

🚁 Normalizing drone warfare

The growing presence of unmanned aerial vehicles in regional conflicts. And the Colombian Amazon is at risk due to oil and gas advancements.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🪤 Gotta catch ‘em all!

Aug 22, 2025

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3 min read

🪤 Gotta catch ‘em all!

Peru is sending all of its former presidents to jail. And Javier Milei’s economy is showing signs of stress in Argentina.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🥀 The end of an era

Aug 19, 2025

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4 min read

🥀 The end of an era

Bolivia’s vote ends two decades of hegemony for the ruling left-wing MAS party. And foreign investment stagnates in Latin America.

Lucas Berti
Gabriel Terra
Lucas Berti, +1

LatAm Report

🙊 Trump’s star witnesses

Aug 15, 2025

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4 min read

🙊 Trump’s star witnesses

Testimony from El Chapo’s sons and Venezuela’s former spymaster could unlock Trump’s drug war. And moderates sink ahead of Chile’s election season.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

😮 AMLO vs Sheinbaum

Aug 12, 2025

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4 min read

😮 AMLO vs Sheinbaum

Drug war fuels fight in Mexico’s ruling Morena party. And local communities resist the Panama Canal expansion project.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🪩 Hitting the parties

Aug 8, 2025

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3 min read

🪩 Hitting the parties

While Evo Morales wrecks his MAS party in Bolivia, Fidel Castro’s grandson turns his Cuban nightlife into a social media spectacle.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🔎 Missing people, missing water

Aug 5, 2025

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4 min read

🔎 Missing people, missing water

Forced disappearances raise alarms about Ecuador’s militarization. And Guatemala has water, but Guatemalans can’t access it.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🧨 Colombia’s Bolsonaro and Covid throwbacks

Aug 1, 2025

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3 min read

🧨 Colombia’s Bolsonaro and Covid throwbacks

Trump’s team reacts against Uribe’s conviction. And Honduras is bringing back pandemic-era Covid restrictions.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

👩‍⚖️ Uribe sentenced, Bolivians panicked

Jul 29, 2025

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5 min read

👩‍⚖️ Uribe sentenced, Bolivians panicked

Álvaro Uribe convicted of witness tampering. Banking crisis hurts Bolivia’s financial inclusion process.

Ignacio Portes
Gabriel Terra
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🐲 Warming up to China

Jul 25, 2025

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4 min read

🐲 Warming up to China

Mexicans hold increasingly positive views of Beijing. And Latin American tourists are wary of visiting the US.

Lucas Berti
Sophia Santos-Pearcy
Lucas Berti, +1
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