Lula’s promise to reindustrialize Brazil won’t be easy; As Milei gains momentum, dollarization gets a second look.

Forget regional integration. Basic diplomacy will remain an uphill battle until the region’s leaders return to a shared definition of democracy.

Precursor chemicals from abroad are fueling America’s fentanyl epidemic.

Opposition, not ideology, wins elections; Chinese foreign direct investment moves beyond natural resources and Brazil; Livent-Allkem merger bets on lithium in the Americas.

His shady associates and wrongheaded policies are making a bad problem worse.

Strengthening global ties is the best way to escape a pandemic-induced recession and help the country’s poor.

His “Fourth Transformation” is a victim of his failure to take the pandemic seriously.

His concentration of power in an already strong presidency bodes ill for civil society and fragile institutions.

His personalistic presidency threatens years of hard-won institutional gains.