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A twice-weekly look into Latin America’s evolving landscape, bringing you deep-dive insights on politics, business and more.

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

LatAm Report

🎠 Hostage merry-go-round

Jul 22, 2025

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4 min read

🎠 Hostage merry-go-round

The US-El Salvador-Venezuela prisoner swap is not as hopeful as it seems. And Costa Rica’s Rodrigo Chaves is pushing against term limits.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🌵 Gringos, get out!

Jul 18, 2025

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4 min read

🌵 Gringos, get out!

Protests against US immigrants in Mexico city. And the region’s three new UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🎰 China hedges, Semilla splinters

Jul 15, 2025

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4 min read

🎰 China hedges, Semilla splinters

Beijing is no longer willing to loan money to Venezuela. And Guatemala’s embattled ruling coalition suffers an internal rift.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

😢 Haiti horrors and risk premiums

Jul 11, 2025

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3 min read

😢 Haiti horrors and risk premiums

Haiti could once again become the largest humanitarian tragedy of the continent. And the risk of debt defaults across Latin America.

Ignacio Portes
Jorge C. Carrasco
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🦶 Sheinbaum’s Achilles, cartels’ tricks

Jul 8, 2025

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3 min read

🦶 Sheinbaum’s Achilles, cartels’ tricks

Energy dependency could be key in Trump-Sheinbaum trade talks. And Mexican cartels use hackers and spies against law enforcement.

Lucas Berti
Jorge C. Carrasco
Lucas Berti, +1

LatAm Report

😖 A failed coup and torture allegations

Jul 4, 2025

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4 min read

😖 A failed coup and torture allegations

A plot to oust Gustavo Petro triggers another crisis in Colombia. Trump deportee Abrego García claims he was tortured in a notorious El Salvador jail.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

✊ Pragmatic socialists

Jul 1, 2025

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4 min read

✊ Pragmatic socialists

Honduras’ left-wing government makes peace with Donald Trump. And Chile’s Communist Party wins the ruling coalition’s presidential primary.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🗳️ Chile’s primary, Ortega’s hitmen

Jun 27, 2025

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4 min read

🗳️ Chile’s primary, Ortega’s hitmen

Critics of Nicaragua’s regime are being killed while in exile. And polls show that Chile’s Communist Party could win the country’s left-wing primary.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

👷 Noboa scopes, Petro settles

Jun 24, 2025

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4 min read

👷 Noboa scopes, Petro settles

Organized labor gets a big win in Gustavo Petro’s Colombia. Daniel Noboa bets on mining to revamp Ecuador’s economy

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

💥 Bukele’s crackdown, Amazon’s breakdown

Jun 20, 2025

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4 min read

💥 Bukele’s crackdown, Amazon’s breakdown

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has placed a 30% tax on foreign NGOs. And why preserving the Amazon does not depend solely on Brazil

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

⚖️ Power grabs, illegal digs

Jun 17, 2025

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4 min read

⚖️ Power grabs, illegal digs

Mexico chose an indigenous judge as its next Supreme Court leader. And Peru’s clandestine gold mines draw links to organized crime and violence.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

📉 Cristina banned, Bolivia broke

Jun 13, 2025

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4 min read

📉 Cristina banned, Bolivia broke

Argentina’s two-time former president Cristina Kirchner faces six-year arrest. And Bolivia has the most rapidly deteriorating economy in South America

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1

LatAm Report

🫨 An echo to Colombia’s bloody past

Jun 10, 2025

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5 min read

🫨 An echo to Colombia’s bloody past

The assassination attempt against right-wing pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay. And the US loses ground to China as Colombia joins the Belt and Road Initiative.

Lucas Berti
Jorge C. Carrasco
Lucas Berti, +1
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