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Regions Americas South America

South America

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of politics, history, and economics in South America, spanning from Argentina and Chile to Brazil, Venezuela, and beyond.

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The Change Chileans Really Want

Why They Rejected a Proposed Constitution

Andrés Velasco

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The Costs of El Salvador’s Crime Crackdown

Gustavo Flores-Macías

The United States’ Missed Opportunity in Latin America

Shannon K. O'Neil

Motherland: A Memoir

Richard Feinberg

Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage

Richard Feinberg

How Javier Milei Could Change Argentina

¿Puede Venezuela encontrar una salida a su crisis?

Francisco Rodríguez

Can Venezuela Chart a Path Out of Crisis?

Francisco Rodríguez

Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World

Richard Feinberg

The Land That Geopolitics Forgot

Will Freeman, Ryan C. Berg

Ecuador’s Descent Into Chaos

Ivan Briscoe, Glaeldys González

Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels

Richard Feinberg

Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects: Trends, Expectations, and Policies

Richard Feinberg

Learning Diplomacy: An Oral History

Richard Feinberg

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Richard Feinberg

Dictators in Twenty-First-Century Latin America: Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and El Salvador

Richard Feinberg

Latin America Is Stronger Together

David Adler, Guillaume Long

The Border Crisis That Wasn’t

The Great Convergence

Branko Milanovic

Why America Is Struggling to Stop the Fentanyl Epidemic

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed

Richard Feinberg

Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America

Richard Feinberg

Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism

Richard Feinberg

Cooperating With the Colossus: A Social and Political History of U.S. Military Bases in World War II Latin America

Richard Feinberg

In Defense of the Fence Sitters

Maduro the Survivor

Michael Shifter

The Restoration of Brazilian Foreign Policy

Hussein Kalout, Feliciano Guimarães

Three Books on Migration

Richard Feinberg

The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

Richard Feinberg

Peru’s Democratic Dysfunction

China’s Latin American Power Play

Julio Armando Guzmán

How Brazil Can Prevent an Authoritarian Resurgence

Benjamin H. Bradlow, Mohammad Ali Kadivar

Can Negotiations Restore Democracy in Venezuela?

Christopher Sabatini, Bruno Binetti

Brazilian Politics on Trial: Corruption and Reform Under Democracy

Richard Feinberg

The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America

Richard Feinberg

Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Transformation

Richard Feinberg

Is Latin America Stuck?

What Lula’s Return Means for the Amazon

Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

Richard Feinberg

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

Richard Feinberg

Two Books on the Problems Plaguing Central America and the Caribbean

Richard Feinberg

A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics

Richard Feinberg

How Bolsonaro Might Win—Even If He Loses

What If Bolsonaro Won’t Go?

Oliver Stuenkel

The Change Chileans Really Want

Books for the Century: Western Hemisphere

Shannon K. O'Neil

Can Brazil Turn Back the Clock?

Gustavo Petro’s Big Win

Bosnia’s Dangerous Path

Kurt Bassuener, Toby Vogel

Education and the Future of Latin America

Richard Feinberg

Encanto

Richard Feinberg

“Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, From 1776 to the Twenty-first Century

Richard Feinberg

Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship

Richard Feinberg

Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America

Richard Feinberg

States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion

Richard Feinberg

The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

Richard Feinberg

Stories That Make History: Mexico Through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

Richard Feinberg

Content Moderation and Self-Regulation Mechanisms: The Facebook Oversight Board and Its Implications for Latin America

Richard Feinberg

Two Policy Reports on Central American Migration to the United States

Richard Feinberg

Venezuela’s Authoritarian Allies: The Ties That Bind?

Andrew F. Cooper

Chile’s Uncertain Next Chapter

Democracy Is Dying in Brazil

Oliver Stuenkel

Two Spies in Caracas: A Novel

Richard Feinberg

Civilizations: A Novel

Richard Feinberg

Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

Richard Feinberg

The Transparency of Time: A Novel

Richard Feinberg

Amazônia

Richard Feinberg

La infinita crisis venezolana

Moisés Naím, Francisco Toro

Latin America’s Democratic Recession

Ryan C. Berg, Lauri Tähtinen

Latin America Needs a New Social Contract

Jorge G. Castañeda, Forrest D. Colburn

Venezuela’s Endless Crisis

Moisés Naím, Francisco Toro

Two Lifetimes as One: Ele and Me and the Foreign Service

Richard Feinberg

The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration

Richard Feinberg

Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America

Richard Feinberg

Beef, Bible, and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro

Richard Feinberg

The Real Root Causes of America’s Border Crisis

Michael A. Clemens

Peru’s Fraying Democracy

Michael Shifter

Has Bolsonaro Truly Gone Green?

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies

Richard Feinberg

Corporate Versus National Interest in U.S. Trade Policy: Chiquita and Caribbean Bananas

Richard Feinberg

The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World

Richard Feinberg

Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City

Richard Feinberg

Going Viral: COVID-19 and the Accelerated Transformation of Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Richard Feinberg

The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed

Richard Feinberg

Will America Welcome Refugees and Asylees Once Again?

Sarah Pierce , Susan Fratzke

El Presidente de México Busca Enfrentarse Con Washington

Latin America’s Darkest Hour

Oliver Stuenkel

Las Décadas Perdidas de América Latina

Luis Alberto Moreno

Latin America’s Lost Decades

Luis Alberto Moreno

Protection Without Protectionism

Shannon K. O'Neil

Two Books on Movements for Social Change in Latin America

Richard Feinberg

Estados Unidos ayuda a sobrevivir al régimen de Venezuela

Francisco Rodríguez

Trump Drove Latin America Into China’s Arms

Oliver Stuenkel

Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

Richard Feinberg

Two Books on China and Latin America

Richard Feinberg

The United States Helps Venezuela’s Regime Survive

Francisco Rodríguez

Latin America’s COVID-19 Nightmare

Diana Enriquez, Sebastián Rojas Cabal, Miguel A. Centeno

Brazil Apart, 1964–2019

Richard Feinberg

The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

Richard Feinberg

The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections

Richard Feinberg

The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War

Richard Feinberg

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