Last Week Showed Why the UN Still Matters to Latin America
Brazil, Argentina, Panama and others played key roles at the General Assembly. Don’t give up hope just yet, writes a former diplomat.
By any sober measure, the United Nations just concluded its 80th General Assembly in a defensive crouch. Wars rage from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan; development assistance is shrinking; climate commitments are slipping; and a once-stable grammar of trade and aid is fragmenting under the pressure of hard power and harder politics. Across Latin America, military buildups accelerate: The U.S. has deployed thousands of marines and sailors to Caribbean waters in what officials call the largest naval presence since the last century, with warships, attack submarines and F-35 stealth fighters...
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