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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.

📣 Chileans reflect, Ticos rewild
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📣 Chileans reflect, Ticos rewild

Six years after mass-scale street protests, Chileans see the movement with a more critical eye. And Costa Rica is trying to reverse centuries of cattle ranching deforestation.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 31, 2025
🩹 Milei gets a second chance
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🩹 Milei gets a second chance

Midterm win shifts momentum back for Argentina’s Javier Milei. And Guatemala’s progressive president joins the tough-on-crime approach towards gangs.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 28, 2025
✈️ Peru on auto-pilot, Paraguay as a hub
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✈️ Peru on auto-pilot, Paraguay as a hub

Will institutional inertia keep holding Peru’s economy together? And Paraguay’s capital Asunción aims to gain regional influence.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 24, 2025
🇧🇴 Paz won with Evo’s votes
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🇧🇴 Paz won with Evo’s votes

Bolivia’s new president was backed by Morales’s base, but he will need right-wingers to govern. And violence escalates in Ecuador as indigenous groups protest cuts to fuel subsidies.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 21, 2025
🐣 Bolivia changes, Trump escalates
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🐣 Bolivia changes, Trump escalates

The two candidates fighting for Bolivia’s presidency in Sunday's runoff. And tension in Venezuela grows as the US flaunts CIA and military involvement.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 17, 2025
💣 Hand grenades and singing puppets
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💣 Hand grenades and singing puppets

Unprecedented attack on Uruguay’s chief prosecutor spreads fears of narco takeover. And Chile’s news parody show 31 Minutos reaches global audiences thanks to NPR’s Tiny Desk.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 14, 2025
🕊️ Boluarte ousted, Machado crowned
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🕊️ Boluarte ousted, Machado crowned

The most unpopular president in the hemisphere is finally ousted in Peru. And Venezuela’s opposition leader wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 10, 2025
🫠 Narco candidates and traffic jams
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🫠 Narco candidates and traffic jams

Javier Milei’s top midterm candidate quits amid drug scandal. And Guatemala turns to South Korea to fix its long-standing road traffic problems.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 7, 2025
🇨🇳 China vs Mexico 🇲🇽
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🇨🇳 China vs Mexico 🇲🇽

An unusual clash between two friendly countries. And uncontacted indigenous communities face multiple threats in Peru.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Oct 3, 2025
😬 Another questioned election?
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😬 Another questioned election?

Fears about foul play in Honduras’ upcoming presidential vote. And Gustavo Petro has his visa revoked by Donald Trump’s administration.

The Brazilian Report
Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
The Brazilian Report, +2
Sep 30, 2025
📩 Divisive reforms, mysterious envelopes
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📩 Divisive reforms, mysterious envelopes

Daniel Noboa wins first battle to re-write Ecuador’s constitution. And the cash-filled envelopes which have tainted Santiago Peña’s presidency in Paraguay.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Sep 26, 2025
💰 Bessent’s Milei bailout
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💰 Bessent’s Milei bailout

US Treasury channels Draghi’s “whatever it takes” moment to halt Argentina’s crisis. And stolen cars spark a diplomatic tussle between Chile and Bolivia.

Ignacio Portes
Lucas Berti
Ignacio Portes, +1
Sep 23, 2025
📵 Smartphone blocks, port crime shocks
LatAm Report

📵 Smartphone blocks, port crime shocks

A pilot case banning phones in Chile’s schools. And the Chinese-backed Chancay megaport is threatened by Peru’s rising crime wave.

Ignacio Portes
Ignacio Portes
Sep 19, 2025
😰 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
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