“Aside from inflation, Milei has not yet demonstrated the economic upside of his projects,” I told @barrons.com.
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“Aside from inflation, Milei has not yet demonstrated the economic upside of his projects,” I told @barrons.com.
www.barrons.com/articles/arg...
Despite a gargantuan U.S. bailout and Trump’s intervention in the midterms in support of a pro-American leader, Argentina’s economic ties to China are *growing.* As I told @apnews.com, Argentina stands out as “a great example of the limitations of the Monroe Doctrine.”
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“Los recortes presupuestarios radicales de Milei demostraron valentía política, pero esta es la fase crítica de su proyecto de reforma promercado”, dije a @bloomberg.com.
www.bloomberglinea.com/latinoameric...
El acuerdo podría acelerar la inversión estadounidense en la Argentina “destinada a sectores estratégicos como la minería”, dije a @lanacioncom.bsky.social.
www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/com...
“Trump’s swift success in toppling Maduro has underscored both the reach and the limits of U.S. hard power in the Americas,” Nicolás Albertoni and I write for @wpr.bsky.social.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/lost-password
“Petro is not a Trump whisperer who other leaders will consult for advice, but he’s out of the doghouse for now, and that’s an improvement,” I told @wsj.com.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
“The Trump-Petro meeting is a high-wire act,” I told @newsweek.com.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Despite decades of close security cooperation and champions in both parties, “Trump generally underestimates the importance of Colombia,” I told @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“I don’t want to say that the Panamanian Supreme Court doesn’t have any independence,” I told @nytimes.com. “But they were under an enormous amount of pressure to help Panama navigate this complex geopolitical situation.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/b...
Panama is “between a rock and a hard place,” pressed by the U.S. to eject China from Panama Canal ports—and wary of Beijing’s likely retribution, I told Responsible Statecraft.
responsiblestatecraft.org/panama-canal...
La “preeminencia” que busca Trump en Latinoamérica no se logra ni solo con palabras ni con el despliegue de buques de guerra, expliqué a El Mercurio.
La lealtad de Milei no es poca cosa, expliqué a Clarin. “Para dominar las Américas, Washington no puede contar únicamente con barcos de guerra y drones militares, sino con alianzas y cooperación voluntaria”.
www.clarin.com/politica/ano...
El acuerdo “deja al margen a Washington”, cuyas empresas “quedarán en desventaja y sometidas a estándares europeos”, comenté a @cnn.com.
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In Argentina, Trump showed the *financial* upside of close ties to Washington, I told @bloomberg.com. That strategy—not Reaper drones and destroyers—is how the U.S. could regain influence in the Americas.
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“Estas intervenciones bélicas en la región no son populares, ni dentro del mundo MAGA, ni en general. Las encuestas lo muestran claramente”, comenté a @lanacioncom.bsky.social.
www.lanacion.com.ar/estados-unid...
Should Delcy Rodríguez start “showing independence that embarrasses Trump,” it would put pressure on Rubio to reassert control in this telecommunicating occupation, I told the @financialtimes.com.
www.ft.com/content/2a85...
“Os desafios na América Latina não serão resolvidos por navios de guerra americanos”, contei ao @valoreconomico.bsky.social em uma entrevista.
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Removing Nicolás Maduro to install his top deputy has done little so far to meet the democratic aspirations of Venezuelans, I told @theguardian.com. “You really have to use a magnifying glass to try to find differences.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
By looting Venezuela’s natural resources and marginalizing its democratic opposition, “it seems like Trump goes out of his way to maximize the diplomatic wreckage” of U.S. Latin America policy, I told @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
“The United States is everywhere and nowhere in Latin America these days,” I wrote for @inkstickmedia.com. U.S. security policy is “stunningly aggressive.” But in other ways, such as foreign aid and economic integration, “the United States has departed the field.”
“Worryingly, the good planning, good conditions, and good fortune that permitted Maduro’s smooth capture appear to have tempted Trump to test his luck again” in another military operation in Latin America, @dangrazier.bsky.social and I write.
responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-venezu...
“The vision now is that Latin America is a shooting gallery and the United States can target whomever it pleases,” I told @economist.com.
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“The return of the Monroe Doctrine is coming at a very inconvenient time for Latin America given the divisions in the region,” I told @politico.com. “It’s a low point of regional cooperation and the U.S. is taking advantage of this.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Leaving Delcy Rodríguez in power is not “contradictory unless you presuppose that the United States remains interested in bringing democracy back to Venezuela and protecting the human rights of Venezuelans,” I told the BBC. After all, she might turn out to be a fine partner for U.S. oil companies.
It is not clear the president was ever serious about administering Venezuela as a U.S. protectorate. “If the president really intends to take on the costs and burdens of rebuilding a failed state, I think you would see an erosion of support,” I told the BBC.
Trump might see seizing oil as “the prerogative of the hemisphere’s preeminent power,” but it is an “unsatisfying explanation for governments in the region, echoing earlier U.S. interventions at the behest of banana companies,” I wrote for @stimsoncenter.bsky.social.
www.stimson.org/2026/what-wi...
“En la medida en que sean los votantes venezolanos, y no la Fuerza Delta, quienes determinen quién gobierna Venezuela, el ganador exiliado de las últimas elecciones debería estar en el poder”, dije a El Mercurio.
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“Los supuestos motivos de la invasión son más que discutibles”, dije a Clarín. “No tranquilizarán a los de la región que teman vivir en un mundo donde los países más potentes dominan a través del uso de la fuerza”.
www.clarin.com/mundo/victor...
“No es casualidad que estas tácticas para presionar al régimen venezolano estén dañando a Cuba al mismo tiempo”, comenté a @latercera.com.
www.latercera.com/mundo/notici...
If Trump is serious about governing Venezuela, he is in for an unpleasant surprise, I told @npr.org. “This will be a monumentally expensive, long-lasting, and complicated undertaking,” the “kind of nation-building that the president and his supporters typically oppose.”
www.npr.org/2026/01/03/n...