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?
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?
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?
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?
Michael Shifter, Beatrice Rangel, Maria Velez de Berliner, Myles Frechette, Daniel Velandia O.
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?
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.
