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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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December 23, 2022

What Does the Year Ahead Have in Store for Latin America?

Among the biggest news stories of the past year in the region was the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil. Lula returns to the presidency on New Year’s Day. // File Photo: Facebook Page of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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  • The past year in Latin America and the Caribbean has been marked by major events including the comeback of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in the span of three years went from a prison cell, where he served more than a year and a half, to becoming Brazil’s president-elect. Also in 2022, the region saw the election of Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla, as the first leftist president of Colombia, the ouster of Pedro Castillo as Peru’s president after a chaotic 16 months in office and increasing instability in Haiti, where gangs tightened their control over territory and the country’s government appealed for international help to stop them. What will be the most important political hot spots to watch in the region in 2023? Where will political risk be on the rise in Latin America and the Caribbean in the coming year? What lessons should the region’s leaders take from 2022 into 2023?

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Michael Shifter, senior fellow and former president of the Inter-American Dialogue: “In 2023, a rough global outlook, together with the region’s dire economic conditions, social distress, political divisions and institutional weakness, are unlikely to temper the turbulence that dominated the region in 2022. Peru’s instability will persist, though hopefully the decision to hold new elections in April 2024 will help calm the waters. The declared war on gangs and states of emergency in El Salvador and Honduras are not expected to end any time soon. Guatemala’s 2023 election offers virtually no hope that the deterioration in governance and spread of organized crime will abate. Haiti’s multiple, unrelenting crises pose a conundrum, with no good policy options to…”

Top News

Brazil’s Lula Names 16 New Cabinet Members
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday named 16 new officials to his cabinet, including the education and social development ministers.
Union at Audi Plant in Mexico Threatens Strike
A union representing workers at an Audi factory in Mexico’s Puebla state have set a Jan. 1 deadline to reach an agreement over pay raises before launching a strike.
Three Venezuelan Opposition Parties Vote to Remove Guaidó
Three of the four main Venezuelan opposition parties voted Thursday to end Juan Guaidó’s status as the head of the interim government that has international recognition from the United States and some other countries. // File Photo: @jguaido via Twitter.

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