Protests, slumping economies and the clear erosion in some countries of democratic institutions plagued the region even before the pandemic hit. So what now?
Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican novelist who died in 2012, wrote more than a decade ago of a U.S. president who, through punitive measures, would almost shut Mexico down and accidentally revive the art of letter-writing.
The conservative Bolsonaro presidency in Brazil, already disdainful of regional economic outfits, has spurned all multilateral diplomacy that involves the region s communist regimes, Pedro Silva Barros writes in Clarín.