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.
1. Introduction The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the Mexican Ministry of Economy, and the Canadian authorities formally launched public consultations in advance
This briefing offers an overview of the money transfer industry in the US-Latin America and Caribbean landscape, followed by a review of some of the challenges in 2025.
China’s 3rd Plenum sets the course for Chinese economic policy over the next five years. What will China’s plans mean for Latin America?
Miguel Otero-Iglesias and Agustin Gonzalez-Agote discuss China’s currency internationalization ambitions in this guest blog post for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Asia and Latin America Program.
How will the new China-Caribbean Development Center affect China’s relations with the region?
Sharp-edged messaging from Chinese diplomats featured prominently in China’s global communications in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Beyond humanitarian motives, China’s pandemic aid has aimed to achieve multiple other objectives.
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