📅 Monday, April 15th 4-5:30 pm EST
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Just a few days until our panel on contemporary #LatinAmerica with Verónica Zubillaga, Mauricio Cárdenas S., Ricardo Hausmann, Vicky Murillo, and Brian Winter! Co-hosted with Columbia Institute of Global Politics

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NEW: After a good 2023, some investors have been spooked by the Lula government's management of Brazil's economy in 2024. We invited Control Risks' Mario Braga on the podcast to talk it out:

americasquarterly.org/article/aq-pod…

You and I both believe Claudia Sheinbaum will win Mexico's election -- but what if we're wrong? Interesting counter-consensus piece here by Sergio Luna for AQ

americasquarterly.org/article/should…

Argentina es el único país (con Haití) que va a caer de toda la región, según el Banco Mundial. En enero estimaban crecimiento del PBI en +2,7% para 2024, y ahora -2,8%. La caída modificó incluso las proyecciones para la región. El economista jefe mostró datos con y sin Argentina

I don’t think it’s “personal politics” per se driving the war of words among Latin America’s presidents. I think it’s the old left-right divide, which is really the rich-poor divide — the toxic politics of a region with the world’s greatest inequality. It is no coincidence that,…

Mi artículo de ayer de Americas Quarterly aparece publicado en español hoy en LA NACION de Argentina...
#Ecuador

Noboa wants to look tough ahead of next year’s election — but looking TOO much like Bukele might (?) be a problem, writes ⁦Sebastian Hurtado⁩ in this balanced analysis for ⁦Americas Quarterly⁩ americasquarterly.org/article/what-e…

Not for beginners.

Absolutely brilliant piece here from Financial Times on competition with China in the Americas…let’s get it done, Washington:

How the US could compete with China in Latin America ft.com/content/789b27… via @ft

Around 2003 in Chile, when the original trilogy of Star Wars began airing on television there, they did this funny thing to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. They stitched the commercials into the films themselves. Here is one of them, with the English dub added in.

Regarding the viral Elon/Brazil/Supreme Court video, a few perhaps contradictory observations

(TL;DR - Brazil’s system is different from US, and complicated, and the video is shrill/one-sided/incomplete - but there are legitimate questions on issue of censoring political speech)…

Just another day in paradise 🤪

NEW: In Venezuela, Maduro and key opposition figures alike are gearing up for the July 28 elections.

Jose Vicente Carrasquero (Jose V Carrasquero A) joins this week's AQ Podcast to analyze the motives and tactics on both sides.

americasquarterly.org/article/aq-pod…

Monday/lunes 15 ⁦ILAS | Columbia University⁩ con ⁦Mauricio Cárdenas S.⁩ ⁦Ricardo Hausmann⁩ ⁦Brian Winter⁩ #Veronica Zubillaga 👇🏼