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Oil, gas and the power they generate, political and economic, run through this month’s Latin American Economy & Business...
17/10/2025

Oil, gas and the power they generate, political and economic, run through this month’s Latin American Economy & Business Report. Guyana’s new five-year plan, Ecuador’s fuel subsidy backlash, Panama’s gas ambitions, Pemex’s state-backed recovery and Brazil’s industrial consolidation all point to a region redefining its energy future.

Assess these shifts and the forces behind them with the Latin American Economy & Business, a monthly overview of macro-economic and business-environment developments.

Read the full October issue with a 14-day free trial at: https://tinyurl.com/yeyryprh

13/10/2025

A new political force is reshaping Guyana.

Anand Persaud, Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News, explains how Azruddin Mohamed’s WIN party captured a quarter of the vote and disrupted the traditional balance of power between the PPP/C and APNU+AFC.

Listen to the full episode: https://tinyurl.com/2hwuf3tv

10/10/2025

Despite record oil revenues and years of major infrastructure spending, poverty remains widespread in Guyana.

Anand Persaud, Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News, joins The LatinNews Podcast to discuss inequality, the rise of the WIN party, and why so many Guyanese still struggle to make ends meet in the age of oil wealth.

Listen to the full episode: https://tinyurl.com/2hwuf3tv

09/10/2025

President Irfaan Ali has been re-elected, securing just over 55% of the vote as Guyana’s oil wealth reshapes its political landscape.

Anand Persaud, Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News, joins The LatinNews Podcast to discuss whether this victory signals public confidence or deepening divisions and what Guyana’s next phase of oil prosperity means for governance, inequality, and the region.

Listen to the full episode now: https://tinyurl.com/2hwuf3tv

Newly re-elected President Irfaan Ali will have to move fast on promises to convert his country's sizable oil income int...
08/10/2025

Newly re-elected President Irfaan Ali will have to move fast on promises to convert his country's sizable oil income into tangible benefits for Guyana's poor, beyond huge prestige infrastructure projects. If President Ali is unable to capitalize and create a coherent development plan and enable a reorientation of Guyana's economy, there will be cause for concern, not least from Azruddin Mohamed, leader of the new WIN (the recently formed, We Invest in Nationhood party) who pulled in 25 per cent of the vote in the general election.

Guyana’s offshore oil fields, discovered by ExxonMobil in 2015, have transformed the country into a burgeoning energy powerhouse. The country, which is estimated to have the world’s highest crude oil reserves per capita, has been one of the fastest growing economies globally since oil production began in 2019 and yet the wealth disparity is starkly evident.

This week on The LatinNews Podcast, Richard McColl PhD welcomes back Anand Persaud, Editor-in-chief of Stabroek News, to discuss the challenges facing President Ali and Guyana including, the Dutch Disease, massive infrastructure expenditure, the on-going dispute with Venezuela over the Essequibo, the US military build-up in the southern Caribbean and climate change.

Listen to the full episode now: https://tinyurl.com/2hwuf3tv

24/09/2025

Cartels are only part of the story.

Across Latin America, “bottom-up” gangs provide order, resolve disputes, and control neighborhoods. This is criminal governance — and it is reshaping the region.

On this episode of The LatinNews Podcast, Benjamin Lessing, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book Criminal Leviathans: How Gangs Govern from Behind Bars, speaks with Richard McColl PhD about how gangs move beyond crime to act as shadow governments.

Listen to the full episode: https://tinyurl.com/4eehrhc8

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we look at how criminal organizations offer basic order and security in Latin Americ...
23/09/2025

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we look at how criminal organizations offer basic order and security in Latin America and how decades of authorities resorting to repressive strategies in order to address underlying social problems have provided fertile platforms for criminal shadow governments.

Misguided state policies have shown that political questions have to change and there is now the need to rethink how to deal with the engines powering criminal governance in the region. We discuss how mass incarceration and repression strengthens the criminal groups it aims to constrain.

We are joined by Benjamin Lessing, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book: "Criminal Leviathans: How Gangs Govern from Behind Bars."

Full episode link: https://tinyurl.com/4eehrhc8

19/09/2025

Bolivia’s democracy faces a stress test: no violence in round one, but October’s run-off could bring delegitimized results and exposed institutional weakness.

We break it down in the latest episode of The LatinNews Podcast.

Full episode out now: https://lnkd.in/gbTKYFB9

17/09/2025

How did MAS evolve from Bolivia’s coca growers into a political force that reshaped the nation? Dr. Angus McNelly explains the party’s rise and its early decade of power.

Full episode out now on The LatinNews Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/4m833ea9

Following the historic defeat of the MAS in the first round of presidential elections in August 2025, Bolivians are left...
09/09/2025

Following the historic defeat of the MAS in the first round of presidential elections in August 2025, Bolivians are left with two options to vote for, both to the right of centre. Former president Jorge Quiroga will face Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira in a run-off set to take place on 19 October 2025.

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we take a look at the results of the first round and explore some of the reason for the total collapse of the MAS party, we discuss the legacy of former president Evo Morales, who ruled Bolivia from 2006-2019, and his current predicament in Chapare.

And what of the potential winner? Whoever wins in October will be faced with Bolivia's precarious economic situation, legal and political disorders and the always unpredictable subnational elections in 2026.

Our guest this week is Dr Angus McNelly, lecturer in International Development at Kings College London and author of: " Now We Are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution in 21st Century Bolivia."

Full episode here: https://tinyurl.com/4m833ea9

01/09/2025

In his final month as president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through two constitutional reforms, including the election of judges and changes to the National Guard.

What are the implications for Mexico’s institutions? We discuss this and more on The LatinNews Podcast.

Listen to the full episode here: https://tinyurl.com/yp73e4c4

In one of his final acts as president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through a contentious judicial refor...
28/08/2025

In one of his final acts as president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through a contentious judicial reform. López Obrador celebrated the overhaul of the judiciary as a necessity and an important legacy of his government.

A primary concern is that the reform weakens judicial independence, reducing checks and balances on the government. There are fears the election process could be open to political influence, reducing the judiciary’s autonomy from government and strengthening the Morena party's dominance.

There are also concerns that organized crime groups could interfere in the election of judges, threatening access to justice for victims and further inflating impunity levels.

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we speak to Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Associate Professor at the Department of Law at ITAM in Mexico City. His research focuses on comparative judicial politics, the rule of law, and empirical legal studies with a focus on the Latin American region.

Full episode: https://tinyurl.com/yp73e4c4

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