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🙊 Trump’s star witnesses
LatAm Report

🙊 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
Aug 15, 2025
😮 AMLO vs Sheinbaum
LatAm Report

😮 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
Aug 12, 2025
🪩 Hitting the parties
LatAm Report

🪩 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.

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Aug 8, 2025
🔎 Missing people, missing water
LatAm Report

🔎 Missing people, missing water

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

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Aug 5, 2025
🧨 Colombia’s Bolsonaro and Covid throwbacks
LatAm Report

🧨 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
Aug 1, 2025
👩‍⚖️ Uribe sentenced, Bolivians panicked
LatAm Report

👩‍⚖️ 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
Jul 29, 2025
🐲 Warming up to China
LatAm Report

🐲 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
Jul 25, 2025
🎠 Hostage merry-go-round
LatAm Report

🎠 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
Jul 22, 2025
🌵 Gringos, get out!
LatAm Report

🌵 Gringos, get out!

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

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Jul 18, 2025
🎰 China hedges, Semilla splinters
LatAm Report

🎰 China hedges, Semilla splinters

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

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Jul 15, 2025
😢 Haiti horrors and risk premiums
LatAm Report

😢 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
Jul 11, 2025
🦶 Sheinbaum’s Achilles, cartels’ tricks
LatAm Report

🦶 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
Jul 8, 2025
😖 A failed coup and torture allegations
LatAm Report

😖 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
Jul 4, 2025
✊ Pragmatic socialists
LatAm Report

✊ Pragmatic socialists

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

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Jul 1, 2025
🗳️ Chile’s primary, Ortega’s hitmen
LatAm Report

🗳️ 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.

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Jun 27, 2025
👷 Noboa scopes, Petro settles
LatAm Report

👷 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
Jun 24, 2025
💥 Bukele’s crackdown, Amazon’s breakdown
LatAm Report

💥 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
Jun 20, 2025
⚖️ Power grabs, illegal digs
LatAm Report

⚖️ 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.

Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti, +1
Jun 17, 2025
📉 Cristina banned, Bolivia broke
LatAm Report

📉 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
Jun 13, 2025
🫨 An echo to Colombia’s bloody past
LatAm Report

🫨 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
Jun 10, 2025
💰 Mercenaries in Haiti, checkpoints in Argentina
LatAm Report

💰 Mercenaries in Haiti, checkpoints in Argentina

Blackwater founder Erik Prince is tapped to fight gangs in Haiti. And Javier Milei’s administration sends reinforcements to the Brazilian border.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Jun 6, 2025
🐌 Slow count, large protests
LatAm Report

🐌 Slow count, large protests

Low turnout and tricky logistics raise doubts about Mexico’s unprecedented judicial election. And a pension reform is fueling street protests in Panama

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Jun 3, 2025
⚖️ Cuban copycats, climate change in court
LatAm Report

⚖️ Cuban copycats, climate change in court

Venezuela hints at a transition into a Cuba-style electoral system. And the Peruvian farmer that sued greenhouse gas emitters in Germany.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
May 30, 2025
💬 Exclusive interview with Rafael Correa
LatAm Report

💬 Exclusive interview with Rafael Correa

Ecuador’s opposition leader says it was “painful” to see left-wingers Lula and Boric recognizing President Daniel Noboa’s re-election, despite unproven fraud allegations.

Jorge C. Carrasco
Jorge C. Carrasco
May 27, 2025
👛 Cost of living and a silent pact
LatAm Report

👛 Cost of living and a silent pact

The cheapest (and most expensive) places to live in Latin America. And why the unpopular Dina Boluarte is still in office.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
May 23, 2025
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