Cerian Richmond-Jones
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Latin lessons: the Donroe-doctrine boost · 29 Jun 2026
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For America's neighbors, Trump's second term has been unsettling.
As well as disrupting trade and sending energy prices soaring, Trump has seemed determined to impose his will on the Western Hemisphere.
For example, by kidnapping the leader of Venezuela,
Nicolas Maduro and his wife, sending gunboats to the Caribbean.
and threatening to invade Cuba.
Trump
But Latin America, strangely, is also benefiting from Trumpian chaos.
No other regional economy in the developing world has done so well in the past year.
It's doing remarkably well.
In 2025, foreign direct investment to the developing world at large shrank, so that means that the developing world got less foreign cash in 2025 than it did in 2024.
But in Latin America, the amount of foreign investment actually rose to $205 billion.
That was a sizable increase on the previous year.
Trump?
Quite a lot.
At least half of that increase came from America.
It helps that Latin America is no longer this place of endless economic crises that it was thirty years ago.
More or less, all thirty-three countries south of the Rio Grande, apart from Argentina and Bolivia, now have floating currencies or peg them to the dollar.
That means that investors know that they're not going to lose large amounts of cash when the central banks
starts printing lots of it.
There's also more inflation targeting going on.
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