This Week In Latin America

Canning House Associate Fellow Andrew Thompson analyses the potential implications of the European Union's reluctance to ratify its free trade agreement with Mercosur, following twenty years of negotiation, due to significant concerns over deforestation.

Salvation by Selic?

Peru’s congress precipitates fresh political crisis

Canning House Associate Fellow Andrew Thompson examines the ongoing legal disputes over Panama's unfinished "Health City" between Panama's public health agency and the Spanish civil engineering firm contracted to build the mega-hospital, with public sector corruption casting a long shadow over proceedings.

Bukele faces damaging allegations of gang links in El Salvador

Canning House Associate Fellow Andrew Thompson assesses the Colombian government's controversial loan to Avianca, Latin America's second-largest airline, to save it from Covid-19-induced bankruptcy.