When Brazil secured the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic bids, it looked ready to take off: it was a rising global power, a highly regarded emerging market, with a growing middle class. This has all come crashing to a halt. As the country prepares to host the Olympic games it is battling an expanding corruption scandal, an economy in recession and a president facing impeachment.
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President Trump, known as a master dealmaker, is making a bold bet on the negotiating advantage he finds in chaos, having already used similar tariff declarations to extract concessions from the United States’ closest trading partners, including Canada and Mexico.
Unless the administration delivers concrete economic benefits to willing partners and admirers like Argentina and El Salvador, U.S. influence in the region will remain fragile, likely ceding increasing space to China.
En momentos de profunda incertidumbre global, nunca ha sido más crucial defender y fortalecer instituciones como USAID, que representan los valores y principios de la política exterior estadounidense.
