Observers say Boric nevertheless might be remembered for bringing a focus on human rights back to the Latin American left after the issue had faded in recent years, above all in the case of Venezuela. For @foreignpolicy.com:
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Latin America's first crop of millennial presidents have now been around long enough that they are getting reelected—or replaced by the other side of the aisle. The latter is the case for Chile's Gabriel Boric, who leaves office on Wednesday. 🧵
in a country the size of Mexico. For @foreignpolicy.com:
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but also to gain access to intelligence for broader anti-crime operations, security analyst Eduardo Guerrero told me. Cecilia Farfán-Méndez of the Gl-TOC said Sheinbaum's approach of following the money still has a long way to go, flagging the low number of money laundering sentences 🧵
While Sunday's raid thrust the Sheinbaum administration's security policy into the spotlight, she has been carving a new path on security for months. The choice to step up cooperation with Washington allowed her not only to head off unilateral U.S. military action 🧵
Brazil and India's positions on issues ranging from AI to critical minerals—which they also discussed in New Delhi—are increasingly important amid strains in the international order, Hussein Kalout said. For @foreignpolicy.com:
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between reaping AI's economic gains and protecting from its harms, tech policy expert @ronaldolemos.bsky.social told me the latter is currently overweighted. That’s why it's especially important the policies are seeing debate in global forums, he argued. More broadly, 🧵
At this week's AI summit in India, Brazil showcased its nascent policies toward the technology. Brazilian officials drew up much of the country's draft AI governance based on the EU model, and while they argue their approach strikes a balance 🧵
The humanitarian outlook could worsen sharply without a resolution to the standoff or change in tactics, experts say. For @foreignpolicy.com:
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of working with a government insider who is open to cooperating. In the meantime, a U.S. tariff threat has broadly cut off oil shipments to the island; the government has begun rationing fuel at sites that reportedly include hospitals. 🧵
In Cuba, the top U.S. envoy said Washington is in talks with unspecified local officials in an effort to bring about political change this year. He suggested his team favored a repeat of the Venezuela strategy 🧵
to trade—and history of investments in high-tech sectors—also prompted a positive milestone last year, when the World Bank upgraded it to high-income status. For
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Costa Rica's election was the region's latest to reward a tough-on-crime candidate against a backdrop of rising concerns about insecurity. Drug smuggling routes have grown following the opening of a new port. But Costa Rica's openness 🧵
the country could underperform compared to the 2000s copper boom. In other corners of the region, like Mexico, governments are testing whether industrial policies for the copper sector could take off. In @foreignpolicy.com :
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Copper's soar to record-high prices this month—and projections of a coming global supply crunch—are being closely watched in Chile and Peru, which consistently rank in the world's top three producers. Chile is planning to increase production, while experts in Peru warn 🧵
Carney’s Davos speech on the world order rang familiar to many Latin American policymakers, who have spent years testing active non-alignment in an effort to avoid being boxed in by spheres-of-influence assumptions. In @foreignpolicy.com:
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Plus, a less commented aspect of the EU-Mercosur trade deal is how it would lock countries into the Paris Agreement on climate change at a moment when that pact is under intense strain.
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Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at factors affecting whether, and how, Cuba is the next target of a major U.S. intervention. 🧵
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in a New York Times interview published today. What’s left? “Putting out fires” through measured but firm diplomacy, & in the long term, diversifying partnerships as well as rebuilding “an international order that is minimally based in rules,” one senior official from the region told me. 🧵
In the wake of Maduro’s capture, several Latin American officials have defended international law and the need to avoid a “Wild West” in their public comments. But the Trump administration has signaled little interest in such arguments, most recently Trump himself 🧵
A look back at the year in Latin American politics: efforts at trade diversification amid U.S. pressure, the fights for Venezuela’s future & to keep climate cooperation alive, the new politics of migration, & why regional historical dramas won global film kudos.
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Both papers are messaging tools, and countries in the region are looking beyond them—to what’s concretely on offer—when deciding how to engage with each outside power. But the papers are nevertheless worth reading side by side.
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This week’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief: As U.S. threats to 🇻🇪 have intensified, China has updated its public strategy document on Latin America & the Caribbean for the first time in almost a decade. It reads as an indirect rebuttal to Trump’s recent National Security Strategy. 🧵
Canada and Mexico are preparing for contingencies, including by trying to boost their economic relationship with each other.
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Today's @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief: It’s kickoff time for a process that could change the biggest rulebook on trade in North America. A review that one 🇨🇦 expert said risks foreign-policy catastrophe is unfolding as the parties to a current deal prepare to jointly host the World Cup. 🧵
The UN climate regime is still alive, with another noteworthy COP30 development the push on national roadmaps to transition away from fossil fuels. Lula today ordered a framework for Brazil's map in 60 days, and for it to be partially funded by oil and gas.
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I wrote a post-COP update for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. With the former pillars of multilateral climate politics—resource transfer from rich to poor countries & U.S.-China stability—being upended, 🇧🇷's focus on green industrial policy at COP is one example of how climate diplomacy is evolving. 🧵
It was a flex of U.S. power, but one that many experts said ran counter to his stated goal of fighting drug trafficking.
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In this week’s @foreignpolicy.com LatAm Brief, Trump announces a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine as he weighs in on Honduras’s presidential election, endorsing a conservative candidate and pardoning another member of the same party from a U.S. cocaine importation conviction. 🧵
