#latin-america
9 posts tagged latin-america.
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Colombia's runoff and the Petro reckoning
With De la Espriella leading by 670,000 votes after the first round, Colombia faces a stark verdict on three years of Petro's left-wing experiment — and a referendum on whether Latin America's reformist moment has exhausted itself.
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Washington brands Brazil's gangs as terrorists
The US designation of Brazil's PCC and Red Command as foreign terrorist organisations, timed with a Bolsonaro family meeting, is geopolitics dressed as law enforcement.
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Colombia votes on Petro's violent legacy
Colombia's first-round election pits a left-wing Petro protégé against a Bukele-style populist, testing whether peace dialogue or crackdown can tame surging guerrilla violence.
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Mexico's election annulment law: democracy's own worst enemy
Sheinbaum's constitutional amendment allowing elections to be voided for 'foreign interference' is a democratic weapon pointed at democracy itself — and Latin America has seen this before.
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Indicting a 94-year-old and calling it policy
The actual grand jury indictment of Raúl Castro for the 1996 plane shootdowns is legally interesting but strategically hollow — a pattern the US keeps repeating in Cuba policy.
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Brazil's Congress and the slow rewrite of accountability
A bill drastically cutting Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence is sold as moderation, but it lands at the seam between democratic prudence and self-protective elite bargaining.
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Brazil's election knife-edge and what it means
A poll showing Lula and Bolsonaro tied ahead of the 2026 election signals that Latin America's largest democracy remains dangerously polarised, with no centre left to hold.
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Indicting Raúl Castro is not a Cuba strategy
The threatened indictment of Raúl Castro and simultaneous CIA back-channel talks in Havana reveal an incoherent US Cuba policy that conflates legal symbolism with diplomatic leverage.
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Cuba's lights go out, and Washington presses the switch
The collapse of Cuba's power grid and the CIA's visit to Havana reveal a coercive strategy that may achieve regime change — or produce a humanitarian catastrophe that outlasts whatever government follows.