On February 26, the first case of Coronavirus in Latin America was confirmed in Brazil, in a 61-year-old patient who had traveled to Italy. What is next? War! “For several weeks, countries in the Americas ...
Diego Moya-Ocampos, principal analyst, IHS Markit U.S. sanctions are likely against Venezuela’s oil sector after the 20 May presidential election in which incumbent President Nicolás Maduro secured re-election to extend the mandate of the ruling ...
By Cynthia Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars With a handful of notable exceptions, the tone and substance of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent swing through five Latin American ...
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s recent call for presidential elections are illegitimate, and their results will not be recognized, officials from the U.S. Department of State said in a briefing with the press, adding that the ...
Economic recovery means seventeen make a comeback to the region’s elite club Seventeen people made it back to the Latin Trade Top 100 Billionaire ranking, a sign of the region’s slow but steady recovery, and ...
Venezuelan banks saw the highest growth in assets in Latin Trade’s most recent Top 100 Banks ranking. Banesco, Venezuela’s largest bank, saw its assets grow by 98.6 percent, pushing it to spot number 37, up ...
By Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America Program at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue China’s relations with Latin America are evolving somewhat as a result of the region’s changing political landscape. Although Chinese firms ...
Cynthia J. Arnson Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars On July 30, Mercosur’s Council of Ministers—its most important governing body other than the presidents themselves—was to have met in Montevideo, Uruguay. ...
How are the region’s governments improving security? Crime continues to be a burden on many Latin American countries. Some governments in the region have implemented zero-tolerance laws aiming to improve their situation, but that strategy ...
An interview with World Development Report co-director Luis Felipe López Calva By Élida Bustos At a time when the sewage of corruption sweeps through the government of Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, and in Argentina the dirty ...