Since returning to the White House in 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump has put the fentanyl crisis at the center of U.S. policy toward Latin America.
North American competitiveness and resilience to geopolitical and climate disruptions increasingly depend on whether the region can co-design and co-locate its digital and manufacturing supply chains, so they reinforce rather than constrain one another. This approach provides a new paradigm and framework, one based on “ring-fencing” supply chains. Alongside efforts to shift factories closer to home and secure physical inputs, it is equally important to create trusted rules and interoperable systems for data, cloud, and digital services that now sit inside every physical product, production infrastructure, and process.
An analysis of new research from Brazil and the United States challenges the notion of deeply polarized electorates, arguing that democratic strain stems less from ideological extremism than from widespread public fatigue, distrust, and growing emotional division.
President Sheinbaum has been unable to reform Mexico’s electoral code. She failed to pass a bill that sought to modify the proportional representation system and reduce public financing for political parties. Many critics argued that the reform was intended to weaken pluralism in Mexico. Two weeks ago, Mexico’s Congress rejected the proposal.
The starting point for understanding the current moment in the U.S.–Mexico economic relationship is trade. Over the past three decades, bilateral exports have expanded at a pace that few regional partnerships in the world can match.
Business, politics, and the economy are defined by both change and continuity, and the money transfer industry is not insulated from these trends. Although the fundamentals of growth are more or less the same—changing needs or behavior of senders and recipients, competition among financial intermediaries, policies and regulations, use of innovation and technology—there are several key developments within those that will shape this year’s performance at an estimated 2 percent growth.
Analyzing Survey Data from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua This piece shares findings on the extent of digital adoption in Central America for regular payment
The January 3 U.S. operation to arrest Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro on drug trafficking charges sent shock waves throughout Latin America. These were particularly pronounced in Mexico, given President Trump’s associated comment that the U.S. needs to “do something about Mexico”, where drug cartels “run the country”.
Many challenges have confronted companies and migrant senders this year, including the proposed tax on remittances, deportations, and a decline in migration.
Haiti and Central American countries will be the most affected in 2026 by a decline in migration and remittances, accompanied by an increase in deportations, which will affect economic growth and increase unemployment and informality.
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