Catherine Osborn
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Brazil-based journalist. Writer of FP's Latin America Brief: https://t.co/suWeiugh9n…
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Today’s Foreign Policy LatAm Brief: 🇨🇱 tries to chart a response to increasingly sophisticated crime that eschews laissez-faire or mano dura tactics seen elsewhere.
Plus, Pepe Mujica offers his life advice for the youth when announcing he has a tumor.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/03/chi…
Today’s Foreign Policy Lat Am Brief: Milei’s reorientation of 🇦🇷’s foreign policy appears to prompt 🇧🇷’s Lula to seek closer ties with 🇨🇴.
Plus, the 🇻🇪 opposition unites around a presidential candidate who has successfully registered to run.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/26/arg…
Another good installment of Foreign Policy's weekly LatAm Brief, where Catherine Osborn focuses on tech investment and the startup scene. Last month, CSIS Americas released a paper on entrepreneurship in the region, its future, and its challenges.👇
csis.org/analysis/catal…
'He’s a true diplomat,' Cavalcante added of the South Korean’s soft power triumph.
Lim Ki-mo, 🇰🇷’s Busan-born ambassador to 🇧🇷, has sung his way to stardom since being posted to the South American country 3 years ago.
Beautifully done by Tom Phillips
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
Today’s Foreign Policy LatAm Brief: Rio tech confab highlights maturation of region’s startup scene, w/ diversification into climate, logistics & more.
Plus, a Uruguayan father of the WTO sounds off on dangers of dividing world into geoeoeconomic blocs.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/19/lat…
Brazil holds large reserves of critical minerals, João Marcos Paes Leme, director of the Department of Energy in Brazil’s Foreign Ministry, tells Catherine Osborn, but it won’t “be drawn into international value chains as mere exporters of raw materials.”
wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/gree…
Boosting renewable energy has become a larger focus of Brazilian foreign policy. For The Wilson Center Latin America Program I interviewed the director of the 🇧🇷 foreign ministry’s energy department about their goals surrounding biofuels, critical minerals, & more:
wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/gree…
Today's Foreign Policy Lat Am Brief: As insecurity tops 🇲🇽 voter concerns & a string of candidates have been killed, presidential contenders are drawing some distance from AMLO’s security policies. Experts say more details on changes are still needed.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/12/mex…
Today’s Foreign Policy LatAm Brief: the OAS is coming off a major success in democracy protection in 🇬🇹's election. Morale appears up after divisions of recent yrs. Could the body make a difference in case where democratic backsliding is more gradual, 🇵🇪?
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/05/per…
France & Brazil this week signed 20+ declarations, including a plan to be 'privileged partners in all domains.'
Macron's visit covered critical minerals, Venezuela, tech cooperation & more. In today's Foreign Policy LatAm Brief:
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/29/bra…
Thanks to Foreign Policy's Catherine Osborn for interviewing me for this piece.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/22/cub….
Today's Foreign Policy Lat Am Brief is about protests & economic crisis in Cuba as well as how U.S. policy on 🇨🇺 has departed from Biden campaign pledge.
Plus, Mexico's role in shaping U.S. immigration policy is visible in its latest retort to Texas.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/22/cub…
In Foreign Policy LatAm Brief: how the IDB is pushing forward a long-brewing revolution in how multilateral development banks lend for climate & other projects.
With new capital & techniques, they plan to up annual lending by nearly half over next 10 yrs
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/15/int…
Half-measures won’t work for Haiti. It was great speaking with Catherine at Foreign Policy on the most pressing matter in the Caribbean right now.
Today we have an early edition of Foreign Policy Lat Am Brief due to fluid events in—and out of—Haiti, whose unelected leader appeared to lose his blessing from Washington this week, portending a governance shift.
Thank you Rasheed J. Griffith for comments
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/07/hai…
In Foreign Policy LatAm Brief: Choosing Cali to host this yr’s UN biodiversity summit is the latest in a string of actions reorienting 🇨🇴 as a climate hawk. What are some of the payoffs & risks of this position?
Plus, LatAm leaders test messaging @ CPAC.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/01/col…
Conversei com Catherine Osborn da Foreign Policy sobre a ida de Lula a África
foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/23/bra…
Today’s Foreign Policy LatAm Brief: Lula’s speech at the African Union is part of a larger upswing in Brazilian commercial & diplomatic outreach to African countries. That outreach is also connected to 🇧🇷’s G-20 presidency goals, Renata Albuquerque Ribeiro says.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/23/bra…