LatAm Report

🗳️ Latin American elections to follow in 2025

In a year of elections, there is potential for chaos (and upsets) in several Latin American democracies

⌛ Triumphs, turmoil and transformations: 2024 in Latin America

A look at the stories that defined the year in The Brazilian Report’s Latin American newsletter, from Ecuador’s war on cartels to the Latino-fueled Trump election.

✋ Not in my backyard!

Latin Americans want to migrate. But they don’t want immigrants in their own countries

🕊️ Measuring Petro’s “total peace”

Violence has dropped in Colombia, but insurgent groups have gained ground under “total peace” policies

🎄🤼 Peru’s Christmas fight club

All about Takanakuy, where Peruvians air their grievances with an end-of-year fistfight. And how Donald Trump’s win ends hopes for a new Cuban thaw

↪️ Signs of a right-wing turn

Latin American public opinion is shifting towards the right. And the drug allegations circling Bolivia’s Evo Morales

🪞 Maduro’s Syrian mirror, Bukele’s gold rush

The fall of Syria’s Assad is a bad omen for Maduro in Venezuela. And Bukele wants to end a historic gold mining ban in El Salvador

Mercosur, EU reaches home stretch, says Uruguay’s foreign minister