The faltering constitutional process indeed captures Chileans’ portrayal as ‘dissatisfied democrats’: they believe in democracy but dislike its results.
The lengthy odyssey surrounding the reactivation of Curaçao’s refinery is pulling the Dutch Caribbean island into a complicated matrix of geopolitics between the United States, the Netherlands, China, and Venezuela.
The current Paraguayan government understands the country’s advantageous moment and aims to leverage it in a way that elevates the country’s standing in the Americas.
As the Petro administration seeks to reap the benefits of additional Chinese investment in the technology sector, it should also prepare to understand, analyze, and mitigate potential risks.
The world should not dismiss aggression as impossible. Deterrence against a low-probability threat is cheaper than responding once aggression has begun.
Milei, the candidate, is now President-Elect Milei. His agenda is radical, to put it mildly.
The unfolding crisis in Bolivia involves the stability and strategic posture of the country literally at the heart of South America. This turning point also has implications on the future access of Washington’s extra-hemispheric rivals, namely China, Russia, and Iran. With distant, mutually reinforcing global crises elsewhere, Washington’s resources and attention are in ever shorter supply, but Bolivia needs to at least be on its radar screen.
El resultado de estas elecciones puede tener un impacto en la narrativa de estas relaciones, pero el fondo es muy poco probable que pueda cambiar. Los proyectos y los compromisos, actuales y futuros, están atados en corto y correctamente planificados.
More must be done if near-shoring is to reach its potential to become a new glue of inter-American relations. Both the Latin American and Caribbean governments grouped in APEP, and the United States, must marshal the political will and financial resources to seize this moment of opportunity in regional development.
Suriname’s prospects of becoming a petrostate improved considerably in September 2023, when France’s TotalEnergies announced that it is commencing studies for developing a USD 9 billion oil and gas project for the Caribbean country’s offshore fields. This project is expected to revitalize the country’s deeply challenged economy and radically reduce poverty. Yet Suriname, like many of its neighbors in the Caribbean and Latin America, faces climate change challenges and is seeking to transition from a dependence on fossil fuels to renewables.
