This report seeks to analyze the potential impact on Latin America of the economic policies likely to be pursued by Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
While many Americans ponder what the November 2024 election will bring, they are hardly alone; Latin American and Caribbean countries are keenly interested in how the U.S. political landscape will evolve in the upcoming months.
Over a two-day interview, former IDB head Enrique Iglesias expressed concern over how the United States is turning toward protectionism, near-shoring and friend-shoring, and trade blocs.
This explainer examines Harris’ record on foreign policy, focusing on how her priorities will impact U.S. relations with Latin America and shape national policy on the Western Hemisphere’s most pressing issues.
The UNSC meeting [of 1973] deserves to be more than a footnote in the history of U.S.-Latin American relations and shows how a small state can influence the United States.
If Latin American governments push forward a well-focused, politically pragmatic agenda, the Latin Americanists lying in wait in the administration can be counted upon to pick up the ball.
[Runde’s] view of international development is transformational, where outside assistance can catalyze internal reforms and lead to broad-based economic growth.
A depoliticized lens would afford the United States more room to be consistent, nuanced, and effective in its foreign policy with the region, supporting struggling democracies and seeking the sustainable democratic evolution of incipient criminalized states.
The motivations for migration vary widely from Honduras to Nicaragua to Venezuela, as does the United States’ relationship with each country and that country’s relationship with Mexico.
The U.S. approach outlined in this article offers no guarantee of success. In its implementation, the notion of “outcompeting China” must be adequately conceptualized, coordinated, resourced, and intelligently applied.
