Cerian Richmond-Jones

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Latin lessons: the Donroe-doctrine boost · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

So basically it's a much more stable region politically and crucially financially than it was thirty years ago.

And that's helped lure investors back gradually.

But the fact is is that we've seen a huge increase in twenty twenty five.

It's kind of counterintuitive, really, because on the one hand, Trump is not very nice about Latin America on a regular basis.

He gathers leaders together to berate them for failing to get hard on drugs, hard on gangs.

But the flip side of that is that he's also really interested in the place.

And as part of his belief that America should have more power over its southern neighbors, that in theory should create these investment opportunities.

So in October, Trump extended $20 billion in swap lines.

To Argentina to help Javier Malay, the president, and a Trump ally.

In twenty twenty four, the Development Finance Corporation, which is the foreign lending agency of Trump's government, set up its first office in the continent.

It was in Sao Paulo.

And a bit more generally, actually, if you go to Sao Paulo at the moment, in these swanky hotels, I was there a few weeks ago, there are just lots and lots of American investors looking for opportunities.

By far the single biggest beneficiary has been the mining industry.

We've seen several deals from Trump himself with different Latin American governments, ranging from Chile, which has got almost half the world's copper that you'd maybe expect, but also down to places that even I didn't know had that many minerals like Paraguay, to try and develop more of these deposits.

As well as that, you've seen the American government quite literally just stump up half a billion dollars in one case for a rare.

Earth mine in Brazil.

And then on the heels of the government, there's this separate wave of private investors.

Some of them are small-time chancers, trying to open gold deposits, small mines, new refineries, that kind of stuff.

But then also the mining majors are really standing up, taking notice of Trump and his desire for critical minerals and massively increasing investment.

Latin America is kind of becoming this geopolitical battleground.

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