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In a Season of Discontent, Are Latin American Democracies at Risk?

Friday, December 6, 2019 | Eric Farnsworth | World Politics Review

As Western investors grow tepid due to Latin American unrest, the region’s leaders might turn to China in “a somewhat Faustian bargain,” writes AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth in World Politics Review. ... Read More

Dilma’s Impeachment: LatAm’s Biggest Stories of the 2010s

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 | AQ Web Exclusive

The first of an AQ series revisiting the decade’s 10 most important stories, and why they really mattered. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: President AMLO's Scorecard One Year In

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador is riding a wave of high approval. Pollster Jorge Buendía and IMCO’s Alexandra Zapata explain what could challenge that popularity.

LatAm in Focus: President AMLO's Scorecard One Year In

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 | Carin Zissis

Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador is riding a wave of high approval. Pollster Jorge Buendía and IMCO’s Alexandra Zapata explain what could challenge that popularity. ... Read More

AS/COA Insider: Juan Cruz Díaz on What Lacalle Pou's Victory Means for Uruguay

Monday, December 2, 2019

The special advisor to AS/COA explains why the center-right candidate won the tight runoff and how the outcome affects the region. ... Read More

Approval Tracker: Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Approval Tracker: Mexico's President AMLO

Sunday, December 1, 2019 | Carin Zissis

Andrés Manuel López Obrador began his term with popularity levels that would make most leaders green with envy. Here’s how his approval looks over time. ... Read More

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Image: Foreign Ministry of Ecuador)

Lula (otra vez) en el centro de atención

Wednesday, November 27, 2019 | Brian Winter | El Comercio

“Si Bolsonaro continúa disfrutando de un grado de éxito, incluso parcial...no dejará mucho oxígeno para Lula”, escribe Brian Winter, vicepresidente de AS/COA, en El Comercio. ... Read More

Mexican President AMLO flies coach. (AP)

AS/COA Insider: Carin Zissis on AMLO's First Year

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

“We are still very far away from seeing what the results will be,” says AS/COA Online’s editor-in-chief as Mexico’s president faces security and economic challenges. ... Read More

Is Brazil Next?

Monday, November 25, 2019 | AQ Web Exclusive

Most Brazilians are unhappy with Bolsonaro. But that doesn’t mean Latin America’s protest wave will spread here, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief. ... Read More

VOA: Eric Farnsworth, "I think [Evo Morales] Has a Mixed Legacy"

Friday, November 22, 2019 | Voice of America

"He became too comfortable in power," the AS/COA vice president said of former Bolivian President. ... Read More

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