Future of Latin America

Growing international uncertainty and complexity are provoking an increasing interest in studies of the future. Profound transformations in the world economy, climate change, and new technologies will ensure that the region’s future is inextricably connected to developments taking place beyond the borders of individual nations. To address these new challenges, the Inter-American Dialogue is working to support the development of strategic thinking in Latin America, using future and foresight studies.

Global Trends & Future Scenarios

The Inter-American Dialogue, in coordination with the IDB and under the direction of Sergio Bitar, has compiled one of the largest database of reports on long-term trends worldwide. The reports explore critical issues related to global and regional trends and future scenarios in areas such as governance, technology, demography, the environment, and geopolitics. With the registry, one can search by topic, institution, country, year, and keyword, and the search results are presented in chronological order, with an executive summary and ability to download the whole document.

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Nicaragua and CAFTA: Noncompliance with the Agreement

The purpose of this memo is to note the existence of partial violations to the Central America and Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement with the United States known as CAFTA-DR.

May 22, 2023

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Testimony to Senate Committee on Finance: Economic Cooperation for a Stronger and More Resilient Western Hemisphere

Testimony by Program Director Margaret Myers to the Senate Finance Committee on Economic Cooperation for a Stronger and More Resilient Western Hemisphere.

May 16, 2023

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Taraciuk Broner: “El comunicado de prensa de las autoridades venezolanas también es una ‘tergiversación’ de la realidad.”

El 15 de mayo, 2023, Tamara Taraciuk Broner, directora del Programa de Estado de Derecho Peter D. Bell del Diálogo Interamericano brindó su análisis sobre la propagación por autoridades venezolanas de la información falsa que “no hay crímenes de lesa humanidad en Venezuela.”

May 15, 2023

Press Mentions See all

Even if we’re not seeing the multi-billion dollar lending that we saw in the past, there are a lot of ... commercial banks and other financial institutions that are providing finance, either directly to Chinese companies or sometimes to Latin American companies, or even Latin American governments for specific projects.

It's all very well to talk about investment but US and European companies are shedding their assets in Latin America .... We have to create incentives for them to stay.