Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
Can Liberal Democracy Adapt Before It Unravels?
Can Liberal Democracy Adapt Before It Unravels?
4 minute read

The global embrace of illiberal democrats reveals not just widespread disillusionment, but elite failure.

AQ Podcast | Resilience Amid Chaos: An Overview of LatAm Economies in 2025
AQ Podcast | Resilience Amid Chaos: An Overview of LatAm Economies in 2025
< 1 minute read

The chief economist for the region at Citigroup on what is shaping Latin America’s economic outlook

REACTION: Trump Orders Armed Forces to Fight Latin American Cartels

REACTION: Trump Orders Armed Forces to Fight Latin American Cartels

7 minute read

The reported Pentagon directive targets groups that the U.S. considers terrorist organizations.

Elections

Bolivia
Demonstrators during a drivers' union protest against fuel shortages in La Paz in June.June 4, 2025. Bolivia Enters a Contentious New Political Landscape: The end of MAS hegemony signals the beginning of a new chapter of divided power and greater instability.
Bolivia Enters a Contentious New Political Landscape

The end of MAS hegemony signals the beginning of a new chapter of divided power and greater instability.

Customers outside a subsidized grocery store in La Paz in Sept. 2024. To Escape Economic Crisis, Bolivia Has a Painful Road Ahead: Whoever wins this year’s election, the next president will face the daunting task of implementing bitter reforms.
To Escape Economic Crisis, Bolivia Has a Painful Road Ahead

Whoever wins this year’s election, the next president will face the daunting task of implementing bitter reforms.

From left: Samuel Doria Medina; Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga; Andrónico Rodríguez
Bolivia: Meet the Candidates 2025

Amid the collapse of the MAS as a dominant political force, the opposition is making polling gains ahead of the August 17 presidential election.

Trump and Latin America

Trump’s Policies Are Testing U.S.-Latin America Ties

A year after AQ’s special report on what the U.S. election would mean for Latin America, even allies complain about heightened uncertainty.

Tractor trailers wait at the U.S.-Mexico border in Juárez, Mexico, in April.
REACTION: Trump Threatens 30% Tariffs on Mexico

In a letter to Sheinbaum, Trump wrote that the tariffs would take effect on August 1 and come in response to fentanyl trafficking.

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in 2020.
REACTION: Trump Hits Brazil with 50% Tariff

In a letter addressed to Lula, Trump cited the treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

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A (Realistic) Path to Success at COP30

As the world prepares for the UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil, one proposal stands out.

Belém and Its Challenges Await COP30

As the UN climate summit nears, the host city of Belém struggles with the daily realities of the Amazon.

The Amazon by the Numbers

AQ maps the Pan-Amazon region and tracks key indicators on the Brazilian Amazon and Belém, host of the November COP30 summit.

Argentina

Argentina’s Complicated U.S. Visa Politics: Argentina's Minister of National Security Patricia Bullrich (L) and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (R) after signing a bilateral agreement in Buenos Aires on July 28
Argentina’s Complicated U.S. Visa Politics
4 minute read

Despite alignment between the Trump and Milei administrations, Argentina faces challenges to reenter the Visa Waiver Program.

Foreign Policy

A woman carries a European Union flag in Warsaw, Poland in May 2025. Why Europe Needs Latin America
Why Europe Needs Latin America
4 minute read

Despite recent tensions, the region should be considered a strategic transatlantic partner for security and defense.

U.S. Policy

U.S. Threat to Leave the OAS Is a Win for Adversaries
4 minute read

Abandoning the OAS would weaken U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere and create opportunities for China and others, an expert writes.

Mexico

Pemex Is at a Crossroads
5 minute read

Mounting debt and declining production have put the state-owned oil company on a precarious path.

Podcast

AQ Podcast | Brazil vs USA: Risks and Possible Ways Out 
< 1 minute read

The motivations, tactics and possible paths forward in the confrontation between the two biggest countries in the Americas.

Panama

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino greets U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Panama City in April.
U.S. Pressure on Huawei Reaches New Heights in Panama
5 minute read

The Trump administration is embracing confrontation in Central America to counter the Chinese telecommunications giant.

Cultura

The British journalist Dom Phillips conducts interviews for his book during a reporting trip to the Amazon in 2019.
A Journalist’s Last Dispatch from the Amazon
3 minute read

“How to Save the Amazon” confronts the complexity of the rainforest crisis—and still manages to inspire.

Cultura

In this still from Under the Flags, the Sun, Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner (right) speaks with Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, who later overthrew Stroessner in a coup in 1989.
Remembering South America’s Longest Dictatorship
3 minute read

A riveting new documentary connects the Stroessner regime to broader forces beyond Paraguay’s borders.

Chile

SQM, Chile’s Embattled Lithium King
Chile’s Embattled Lithium King
7 minute read

SQM’s new state partnership faces growing scrutiny amid rising global competition for one of the world’s most critical minerals.

Photo Essay

An ice cave at 16,000 feet above sea level, photographed in 2021, extends over Pastoruri Glacier Lake in the Cordillera Blanca range of the Andes. The giant cave has since disappeared.
Photo Essay: The Melting Glaciers Releasing Heavy Metals
4 minute read

High in Peru’s Andes, communities and scientists are racing against time to mitigate one more calamity wrought by climate change.

AQ Q&A

Vicky Murillo
Q&A: Vicky Murillo on Latin America’s 2025 Election Cycle
2 minute read

A political science professor explains how voters are shopping around this year.

Colombia

The Former Journalist Seeking Colombia’s Presidency
8 minute read

Vicky Dávila is a rising conservative
candidate in the 2026 presidential race.

Podcast

AQ Podcast | Colombia Enters a Turbulent Election Season
< 1 minute read

What to expect as the 2026 elections approach amid increasing violence and a strained relationship with the U.S.

U.S. Policy

What Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Means for the Americas: U.S. President Donald Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, July 4, 2025.
What Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Means for the Americas
4 minute read

The signature legislation will impact regional economies, immigration, and energy policy, two experts write.

Venezuela

Venezuelan migrants outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Lima protesting against President Nicolas Maduro in January. The Future of Venezuela’s Diaspora
The Future of Venezuela’s Diaspora
5 minute read

Recent surveys of migrant communities in Colombia and Peru provide rare insights into the largest exodus in Latin American history.

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