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

😰 Argentina flirts with another debt default
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😰 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
Sep 16, 2025
🤖 Chip wars reach Latin America
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🤖 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
Sep 12, 2025
🥊 Milei on the ropes
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🥊 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
Sep 9, 2025
💥 Caribbean showboating
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💥 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
Sep 5, 2025
👬 Being Bukele
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👬 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
Sep 2, 2025
🗡️ Coke and dagger
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🗡️ 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
Aug 29, 2025
🚁 Normalizing drone warfare
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🚁 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
Aug 26, 2025
🪤 Gotta catch ‘em all!
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🪤 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
Aug 22, 2025
🥀 The end of an era
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🥀 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
Aug 19, 2025
🙊 Trump’s star witnesses
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🙊 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
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😮 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
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🪩 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
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🔎 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
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🧨 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
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👩‍⚖️ 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
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🐲 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
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🎠 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!
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🌵 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
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🎰 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
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😢 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
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🦶 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
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😖 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
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✊ 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
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🗳️ 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
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👷 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
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