Europe’s rapprochement with Mercosur highlights a shift in its geopolitical priorities and raises the question of to what extent it can regain the economic and political influence that China has been gaining over the past decades.
Pope Leo XIV's tour of Latin America aims to restore the Catholic Church's influence in the face of political polarization and the rise of the far right.
Trump’s electoral defeat weakens his room for manoeuvre at home, but could intensify the pressure he exerts on Latin America --a divided region with little capacity for a unified response.
The Ueno Bank crisis and the downfall of Santiago Peña lay bare the links between political and financial power, and the institutional cost of losing public trust.
In the face of La Libertad Avanza’s rise in Buenos Aires, the PRO is abandoning its traditional ideological ambiguity and moving towards conservatism in order to compete for the right-wing vote.
