Martin Langfield

The people of El Salvador, and Donald Trump, love Nayib Bukele's iron boot approach to fighting crime. But ho…

Millions of migrants cross the U.S.-Mexican border. North of the border, some fear them. But the economy depe…

How can a nation whose history is steeped in war and repression break free of violence?

Protests across Latin America target common complaints, including poverty and corruption, and offer lessons f…

Index of all 161 Breakingviews columns by Martin Langfield, 2012-2019 (subscription or free trial required).

Lo logrará mejor con préstamos e inversiones que con una intervención militar

Oil-rich Venezuela looks increasingly like a failed state. More than a tenth of the Latin American country's …

A lethal dam collapse wiped $18 billion off Brazilian miner Vale's market capitalization. It may also derail …

Venezuela's inept socialist leader Nicolás Maduro is caught in a pincer movement largely of his own making. S…

Energy-sector reform is up in the air in both Brazil and Mexico. In the coming year, new regimes in Latin Ame…

The ghosts of Argentina's past will come for President Mauricio Macri in next October's elections. The pro-bu…

The world is ever more connected via the internet, from cars and power grids to home appliances and toys. Tha…

El nuevo presidente de Brasil es un recién convertido al libre mercado y tiene ideas extrañas sobre el Estado…

Asoman el estatalismo, la violencia y los regímenes militares, pero la historia no tiene por qué repetirse

Mauricio Macri, the pro-market leader of Latin America's No. 3 economy, has been doing the right thing for Ar…

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is rearranging the economy's deckchairs. A plan he announced on Friday n…

Compañías mexicanas, con nombres usualmente desconocidos para el público estadounidense, están detrás de much…

Economy News:Argentina's road to economic normality hits more zigzags

Poor Mexico, the saying goes. So far from God, so close to the United States. Not so, says Andrew Selee in hi…

Latin America has battled dictators and demagogues. Its next adversary is lawlessness. As Michael Reid writes…

Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has died aged 90, showed that revolutions are like startups. Founders often ne…

In “Brazillionaires,” Alex Cuadros explores Latin America’s largest economy through some of its most spectacu…

Rio de Janeiro's once-touted Olympics jamboree may leave a sour hangover.

In “Narconomics,” journalist Tom Wainwright applies the logic of business to the bloody world of drug cartels…