The end of 2021 has seen several shifts in the Latin American political landscape. In November alone, the Peronists took a bruising defeat in the Argentine midterms, and the socialist former first lady of Honduras became the Central American country’s first female president. However, there has been no bigger story than that of the Chilean […]

Professor Andrea Renda is a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Part-Time Professor at the EUI’s School of Transnational Governance, and one of the leading experts on digitalization and regulatory policies at the European level. In this exclusive […]

The countries of Latin America must set aside pretentious political aspirations and discourses of “good intentions” to advance pragmatically on specific policies that provide regional public goods. The pressing and complex transregional challenges demand the accumulated experience of government bureaucracies, non-state actors, and civil society to foster increased cooperation. When dialogue between political leaders becomes […]

“Thanks, Uncle Sam,” a friend of mine in Asunción remarked – perhaps sarcastically – when declaring that she had received the first dose of her vaccination regimen in July. This vaccine, one of a million Pfizer doses donated by the United States to Paraguay a few weeks earlier, was a welcome development for a country […]

The Organization of American States (OAS) voted on June 15th on a resolution to condemn the recent rise in the arrests and harassment of opposition candidates in Nicaragua by the government. The supranational body’s permanent council met and passed, by a vote of 27-3, the resolution, unequivocally condemning the detention of opposition candidates by the […]