Apart from being Brazil’s most popular football clubs, Flamengo, Corinthians and Palmeiras have one other thing in common: All three signed sponsorship deals with Chinese carmakers this year.

A tight formation of panettone streams past me on a conveyor belt. There must be what, 300 pieces? 400? They move too fast to count, perfectly aligned, marching toward a giant resting area before head...

Brasilia is finally getting rain, ending a punishing dry season. Inside the government’s iconic modernist buildings, though, the temperature is only rising.

Almost two years after Donald Trump first threatened to take over the Panama Canal, the storied watershed is thriving.

It’s a familiar sight across Mexico’s urban landscape: cities every time more congested, with inadequate public transportation and tortuous journeys from one end to the other. Traffic is a problem acr...

Brazilians will head to the polls in less than two months to elect their next president. What do the country’s 159 million voters care most about? Crime, narcotrafficking and corruption. They also wor...

Smiles, cooperation and lots of patience.

Can Guyana outrun the mismanagement and corruption that have afflicted so many other petro-states?

Daniel Ortega's cynical candor about suspending elections in Nicaragua creates an opportunity to raise the cost of repression for a regime whose abuses too often fly under the radar. The options are p...

So much for the panic attack.

A week after two earthquakes struck Venezuela, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths and counting, the courage and generosity of its people and the professionalism of international rescue teams have und...

Abelardo de la Espriella got the win. Now the hard part begins.

If you had told me that more than 70,000 effervescent football fans would pack Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on a Monday night to watch, ahem, New Zealand take on Iran, I’d have replied: not in a hundred ...

If you are planning to watch a football match with a cold beer on a breezy summer night in Mexico’s most iconic square, you’ll have to reconsider.

What looked like a model presidential election in Colombia on Sunday has flashed forward into a perilous moment for the country, with three long weeks until a decisive runoff.

The images were historic: CIA Director John Ratcliffe standing alongside Cuban government officials, with no more context than a mention of the location, Havana. The message, however, required no expl...

The World Cup kicks off in five weeks, but North American business leaders are bracing for a far more consequential date: the review of the USMCA free-trade pact, due July 1.

The US indictments against Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha and other top local figures on drug charges were bold, dramatic and disruptive — but hardly unexpected.

Everything that could go wrong with Peru’s election did. Late-arriving ballots at several polling stations triggered a cascade of missteps by the electoral authority, culminating in the dramatic resig...

Economic news in Venezuela is moving at a dizzying speed.

From the ultra-deep waters of Brazil’s Santos Basin to the arid shale fields of Argentina’s Patagonia, a new hydrocarbon boom is welling up across Latin America.

Less than 60 days before the start of the World Cup, I am already panicking: All my attempts to get tickets to see Argentina and Lionel Messi at football’s greatest tournament have failed miserably.

Peru has gone through three presidents since October, yet markets have largely yawned: Country risk has edged up only marginally, credit default swaps remain well below their five-year average and the...

As interest-rate decisions go, the Bank of Mexico’s cut last month ranks among the most contentious in years.

Argentina brims with clashing superlatives.

The White House’s playbook for Cuba is now unmistakable: strip away the regime’s public face to secure a decisive strategic advantage while stopping short of outright regime change.

Colombia’s primary elections left political junkies in ecstasy and economists uneasy.

With the world reverberating to the risks of an oil-price shock, Latin America is actually poised to strengthen its geopolitical position. If it wants to capitalize on this moment, it needs to sharpen...

If you thought Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech was incendiary, try Javier Milei’s version.

The future was pitched as utopia: Adopting Bitcoin would catapult El Salvador into a techno-libertarian paradise, banking the unbanked, attracting global innovators and financing futuristic projects, ...

Murders, torched cars and highway blockades. Bank branches set ablaze on otherwise empty streets. Tourists stranded in resorts in Puerto Vallarta. Classes suspended in at least 13 states.

Carnaval may be winding down, but the political scandal shaking Brazil’s establishment is only gathering steam.

Tensions over the revision of North America’s trade pact are escalating.

Imagine your company controls 70% of a market. Any market. Tasty, right? For most tycoons, that would be the ultimate fantasy.

What better setting to debate a fast-changing world than the Panama Canal? The emblematic waterway is not only a key geopolitical flashpoint; it’s also Latin America’s most visible frontline in the in...

Have you heard about Mexico’s charm offensive in Davos? Didn’t think so, because there wasn’t one.

For those who think about politics in terms of ideology and rigid categories, the extraordinary events in Venezuela pose an uncomfortable question: what is the morally correct position to take in a dr...

Brazil’s leadership ambitions are having a bad moment.

This year promises yet more upheaval, but don’t despair: 2026 also brings the World Cup, the best possible placebo for the pains of everyday life.

This year promises yet more upheaval, but don’t despair: 2026 also brings the World Cup, the best possible placebo for the pains of everyday life.

Big party, brutal hangover.

José Antonio Kast wasted no time. Less than 36 hours after being elected Chile’s next president, the conservative leader boarded a plane, crossed the Andes and paid a visit to his ideological ally, Ar...

Tierra del Fuego isn’t the most obvious place to look for clues about how rapidly Argentina is changing. Yet the country’s southernmost and least populated province has just pulled off a sharp policy ...