灾后重建，厄瓜多尔需要什么？
4月16日厄瓜多尔发生7.8级地震。为筹集资金资助震后重建计划，总统拉斐尔·科雷亚（Rafael Correa）4月20日宣布提高税收，包括对百万富豪进行一次性征税。科雷亚的增税举措足以重建厄瓜多尔吗？政府还应做何措施来修复基础设施和帮助受灾群众？国际援助和多边组织在救灾和修复工作中会起到多大作用？
Analysis
Will the TPP Win Congressional Approval This Year?
What are the major obstacles to Congress’ passage of the TPP, and will they be overcome?
Will Latin America and China’s Energy Partnership Change?
Over the past 10 years, China has loaned some $70.2 billion to Latin America for its energy sector alone. How will Latin America’s energy sector be affected as China’s economic outlook and investment strategies evolve?
Can Mexico’s New Foreign Minister Work With Trump?
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto last week named Luis Videgaray as the country’s foreign minister. Videgaray had resigned as Mexico’s finance minister in September after Peña Nieto faced widespread criticism for meeting with then-U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in a visit Videgaray was reportedly instrumental in arranging. Why was Videgaray tapped as foreign minister?
罗塞夫能否幸免被罢黜
5月12日清晨，巴西参议院决定暂时解除迪尔玛·罗塞夫（Dilma Rousseff）的总统职务，并以“违反预算法”对她进行审判，而罗塞夫否认这项指控。审判结果会是什么？代理总统米谢尔·特梅尔（Michel Temer）现在必须采取什么政策措施才能稳定巴西政治经济的动荡局面？国际社会又如何看待巴西政局？
Why Is Ecuador’s Government Reining in Assange?
Ecuador’s government said Oct. 18 it had partly restricted Internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has lived in asylum in the Andean nation’s London embassy for more than four years. Why has Ecuador, whose leader, Rafael Correa, often locks ideological horns with the United States, taken steps to restrict Assange now?
Will a New Team Turn Argentina’s Economy Around?
Since taking over as Argentina’s president a year ago, Mauricio Macri has implemented free-market measures in an effort to spur the economy and attract foreign investment. However, the country’s economy contracted for the fourth consecutive time in last year’s third quarter, and Macri in December dismissed his finance minister, Alfonso Prat-Gay, and split his ministry of treasury and finance into two cabinet departments. What kinds of economic policies can be expected of new Treasury Minister Nicolás Dujovne and new Finance Minister Luis Caputo?
Will U.S.-Mexico Relations Continue Deteriorating?
Tensions boiled over between the United States and Mexico recently, amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s advancement of a plan to build a multi-billion-dollar wall along the countries’ shared border and his continued insistence that he will force Mexico to pay for it. The situation led Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to cancel a planned meeting with Trump in Washington and reiterate that his country would not pay for the wall. Are U.S.-Mexico relations likely to deteriorate further, or will Trump and Peña Nieto find common ground?
What Will Be Obama’s Latin America Legacy?
This month, the White House announced that U.S. President Barack Obama would be visiting Cuba and Argentina in March, what do these visits signify for Obama’s foreign policy toward Latin America as he enters his eighth and final year as president?
Does Peace Still Have a Chance in Colombia?
By a narrow margin, Colombian voters on Sunday rejected their government’s peace accords with the FARC rebels. What are the next steps forward for Colombia?
Will the TPP Win Approval in Ottawa and Washington?
What is the outlook for the TPP’s ratification by Canada’s Liberal government and during a U.S. presidential election year?
Has Maduro’s Government Quashed the Recall Referendum?
Has the ruling government effectively shut down the efforts to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office? What steps can the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD, take now in order to achieve their goal of removing Maduro and his party from office? Would an Istúriz administration be able to better address Venezuela’s devastating economic and humanitarian crisis?
秘鲁下任总统主要面临哪些挑战？
佩德罗·巴勃罗·库琴斯基（Pedro Pablo Kuczynski）于6月5日举行的第二轮大选中险胜。库琴斯基仅以极为微弱的优势获胜，这会成为政府的不利因素吗？新政府面临最紧迫的问题是什么？库琴斯基与反对派的合作会取得多大成功？
David Olivares Joins the Financial Services Advisor Board of Advisors
We are delighted to announce that David Olivares has joined the Financial Services Advisor’s board of advisors. David is a senior credit officer in Moody’s Financial Institutions Group – Latin America, where he is responsible for ratings of Mexican, Colombian and Central American banks.
什么因素拖累了拉美地区的经济增长？
6月7日，世界银行预计，继去年拉美和加勒比地区经济衰退0.7%之后，今年该地区将继续衰退1.3%，30多年以来拉美经济将首次遭遇连续两年的负增长。造成今年拉美经济不振的最主要原因是什么？什么因素将引领该地区经济的复苏？