Nationalizing Mexico’s lithium reserves and extending state control over electricity and energy will undermine the region’s prosperity and security.

Halfway through his term, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is moving from bending democratic norms and laws to breaking them—a slide that the U.S. cannot afford to ignore.

Forget all the talk about the region’s “pink tide” and focus on which candidate is most likely to lift the greatest number of boats.

President Lopez Obrador’s plan to renationalize electricity generation will make it more expensive, dirtier and less reliable and jeopardize the inclusive economic growth he says he wants. 

Once the region’s no-frills, free-market poster child, Chile needs more government spending, not less, to sustain its growth trajectory.