JP Spinetto is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Latin American business, economic affairs and politics. He was previously Bloomberg News’ managing editor for economics and government in the region.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pursued an ideologically driven strategy toward his neighbors that has yielded few wins and several own goals.
The Caribbean island is going through its harshest economic crisis in three decades. The world should prepare for an eventual and sorely needed regime change.
The region’s economic fundamentals look better than they have since the start of the commodities super-cycle 20 years ago. But to make the most of their geopolitical luck, its politicians need to be more ambitious.
Doubling down on incendiary remarks, as the presidents of Brazil and Mexico have done in recent controversies, only increases polarization and hurts policy goals.
The eruption of allegations linking President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to drug traffickers paradoxically conceals the lack of a coordinated government strategy to confront them.
The next football season will start in São Paulo as the NFL looks to expand internationally, with the country of Pelé as its latest beachhead. But this is one soccer fan determined to resist its cheap marketing tricks.
Recent judicial rulings look like an attempt to rewrite the history of the Lava Jato investigation, threatening the country’s anti-corruption credibility.
The leftist leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have remained shamefully silent about Venezuela’s repression. Instead of railing against US sanctions, they should use their political capital to steer their neighbor back toward stability and openness.
