In 2021, ten countries in Latin America hold elections—five of them presidential contests—while reeling from the pandemic's devastating impact.
News & Analysis
“It’s like a slow-motion train wreck,” says the AS/COA vice president of the November 7 vote, widely considered a sham.
AS/COA Online previews the November 2021 presidential elections in Chile, Honduras, and Nicaragua, along with legislative midterms in Argentina.
"By broadening its policy focus, Washington has a significant opportunity to shift incentives to address corruption more effectively," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in Univision.
As AS/COA marks 10 years of its Women’s Hemispheric Network, we look at the pandemic’s economic effect on women and why Latin America may be poised to make progress.
La Red Hemisférica de Mujeres de AS/COA cumple 10 años, por lo que miramos el efecto económico de la pandemia en las mujeres y por qué puede que América Latina esté lista para más progreso.
With most of the opposition jailed, Daniel Ortega is poised to tighten his grip on power in the November 7 vote.
The AS/COA Online editor-in-chief covers why the neighbors will reexamine the Merida Initiative during cabinet-level talks on October 8 in Mexico City.
The UN General Assembly returns to an in-person opening debate in New York. AS/COA Online covers the main developments for the region at this year’s session.
"Montevideo would prefer to develop ties with Washington over Beijing. But so far, that option has been unavailable," co-writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for Barron's.
The special advisor to AS/COA covers the context for the governing coalition’s losses in legislative primaries and what the outcome means for November midterms.
Ahead of the November 21 first round, AS/COA Online profiles the backgrounds and platforms of Gabriel Boric and Yasna Provoste on the left, and Sebastián Sichel and José Antonio Kast on the right.
"It is certainly possible to imagine a future in which Brazil and the United States have settled into a mature equilibrium," writes AS/COA's vice president in Revista piauí.
Growing demand, rising prices, climate change, and Covid are all contributing to a shifting macroeconomic environment in the region’s largest economies.
Once hailed as a cheap and accessible vaccine option for the region, Russia’s Sputnik V has run into delivery problems in Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, and elsewhere.
Maduro’s goal is not to accommodate the opposition but to find a path toward sanctions relief, says the AS/COA vice president in this Q&A.
Several of the new Peruvian president’s picks seem designed to provoke controversy.
On August 1, voters will voice whether past leaders' crimes should be investigated and punished. There are catches.
Two young newcomers—Gabriel Boric on the left and Sebastián Sichel on the right—beat out frontrunners to lead their respective coalitions. The presidential vote takes place in November.
Two variants—Gamma and Lambda—already have a strong presence in the region. Delta could soon follow.