May 13, 2020

The Geopolitics of Industrial Redeployment and Latin America’s Next Development Chapter

China’s exposure to the world in trade, technology, and capital has fallen in relative terms. Conversely, the world’s exposure to China has increased. This reflects the rebalancing of the Chinese economy toward domestic consumption”. Mexico and Brazil’s entry into the development circle is fundamental to the US as these countries would secure China’s engagement to a restructured  international system that adapts the  1945 architecture to the demands of the digital economy and those of risk mitigation imposed by geopolitics. But maybe they will rather prefer to continue to be the countries of the future.

COVID-19 PANDEMIC WEAKENS DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS & STRENGTHENS DICTATORSHIPS IN LATIN AMERICA

In Latin America there are substantial differences between countries with democracy and those with dictatorships, with facts that demonstrate the pandemic to be weakening democratic governments and providing an opportunity for permanency to the dictatorships. In the context of uncertainty and fear in which the world is learning to cope with the pandemic, it is urgent to strike a balance between politics, health, and the economy, but the lower rates of acceptance and popularity of democratic presidents becomes an unavoidable constant that does not help.  With the growing social unrest and accelerated economic crises in Latin America, there have been scenarios created that are conducive for the Castro Chavist conspiracy seeking to destabilize and -if possible- topple governments.  These are their objectives already under way and confessed since last year in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and elsewhere.