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  • In addition to Argentina’s profound economic crisis, the nation faces serious security challenges. These include use of the country as a drug transit zone, including cocaine from Bolivia and Peru bound for Europe and marijuana from Paraguay.
    Argentina: Security Challenges and the Government Response

    By R. Evan Ellis

    Summary: In addition to Argentina’s profound economic crisis, the nation faces serious security challenges. These include use of the country as a drug transit zone, including cocaine from Bolivia and Peru bound for Europe and marijuana from Paraguay.  Such criminal activities have caused violent struggles between groups for transport routes in

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  • Paraguay: A Promising Government Navigating a Perilous Path The greatest gift that Cartes can give the country and President Peña is to empower Peña to take the real and symbolic steps to frontally tackle corruption. https://globalamericans.org/paraguay-a-promising-government-navigating-a-perilous-path/
    Paraguay: A Promising Government Navigating a Perilous Path

    By R. Evan Ellis

    The greatest gift that Cartes can give the country and President Peña is to empower Peña to take the real and symbolic steps to frontally tackle corruption. Paraguay, a land-locked country at the heart of South America, is strategically important for the region, the U.S., and even the Indopacific, in ways that exceed the attention given to it by Washington D.C. Larger than Germany, Paraguay’s geographic centrality means that the country’s commercial and political dynamics... 

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  • Argentina Political and Economic Challenges | R. Evan Ellis
    Argentina Political and Economic Challenges

    By R. Evan Ellis

    From February 24 through March 2, I traveled to Argentina to speak with government, business and academic experts regarding the situation in the country, including 27 interactions involving some 300 people. Argentina is at a pivotal moment, as its new libertarian President Javier Milei seeks to turn around the country’s unfolding economic collapse

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  • Is China Cornering the Green Energy Transition in Latin America? | R. Evan Ellis on Diaglo-American
    Is China Cornering the Green Energy Transition in Latin America?

    By R. Evan Ellis

    A key element of China’s economic advance over the past four decades has been the government’s promotion of its companies’ acquisition of capabilities and market share in sectors seen as strategically important to the country. In recent years, that emphasis has increasingly focused on digital technologies and green energy.The advance of the

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  • Conversations on Strategy
    The Impact of the Middle East Conflict on South America

    By R. Evan Ellis

    How are the Middle East and South America connected, and what does it mean for the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere? From geopolitics to economic repercussions, diplomatic relations, security concerns, global energy markets, humanitarian efforts, and more, R. Evan Ellis discusses the far-reaching impact of events in the Middle East.

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  • The Case for Containing, Not Coddling, Maduro The inability of the U.S. to facilitate a return to democracy in Venezuela does not justify accommodating dictatorship in the name of engagement. by R. Evan Ellis
    The Case for Containing, Not Coddling, Maduro

    By R. Evan Ellis

    From 2019 to 2020, I had the honor of serving on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s policy planning staff (S/P). One of my priority focus areas was the dictatorship of Nicholas Maduro and the dangers it posed to the Venezuelan people and to the region.  The Maduro regime’s expulsion of the office of United Nations High Commission for Human Rights from the country, and the arrest and forced disappearance ...

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  • China’s Security Engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean An overview of the characteristics and trends in China’s security engagement in the region, and how it is evolving.
    China’s Security Engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean

    By R. Evan Ellis

    An overview of the characteristics and trends in China’s security engagement in the region, and how it is evolving. China’s activities in the security and defense sector in Latin America and the Caribbean are a small but strategically significant portion of its engagement with the region. Beijing has openly acknowledged its interest in engaging with the region on security matters in the 2008 and 2016

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  • China-Latin America Space Cooperation: An Overview By R. Evan Ellis As China has increased its political and economic cooperation with Latin America, it has also expanded its space engagement with the region. https://thediplomat.com/2024/02/china-latin-america-space-cooperation-an-overview/
    China-Latin America Space Cooperation: An Overview

    By R. Evan Ellis

    As China has increased its political and economic cooperation with Latin America, it has also expanded its space engagement with the region.In September 2023, during a visit to China, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro announced an agreement in which China would transport Venezuelans to a research base it plans to build on the moon, the

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  • PRC Engagement with Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe: Comparisons and Insights | R. Evan Ellis
    PRC Engagement with Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe: Comparisons and Insights

    By R. Evan Ellis

    PRC Engagement with Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe: Comparisons and Insights R. Evan Ellis Over the past twenty years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has expanded its political, institutional, economic, and other forms of engagement with all regions of the world. Not surprisingly, because engagement in Latin America and the

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  • Argentina's Milei Returns Idea of Limited Gov't to Global Stage In Latin America | R. Evan Ellis
    Argentina's Milei Returns Idea of Limited Gov't to Global Stage In Latin America

    By R. Evan Ellis

    The nine most terrifying words in the English language are:I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.— Ronald Reagan - Aug. 12, 1986Most Argentines did not elect eclectic libertarian Javier Milei in November 2023 because they understood his economic philosophy.Rather, they were exasperated by the economic disaster of the leftist Peronist

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  • Strategic Implications of the Deterioration of the Rules-Based International Order | R. Evan Ellis
    Strategic Implications of the Deterioration of the Rules-Based International Order

    By R. Evan Ellis

    The multiple crises currently playing out in Ukraine, the Middle East, the Taiwan straits, and even Guyana’s Essequibo region, reflect a deterioration of the rules-based international order that has served as the foundation for economic growth, technological progress, and the limitation of interstate conflict since the end of the Second World War.

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  • Perspectives on Ecuador: The Sky Isn’t Falling | R. Evan Ellis Background image from United Press International via Global Americans Article (https://theglobalamericans.org/perspectives-on-ecuador-the-sky-isnt-falling)
    Perspectives on Ecuador: The Sky Isn’t Falling

    By R. Evan Ellis

    The takeover of Ecuadorian TV station TC in the middle of a widely watched news broadcast, Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa’s declaration of a state of internal armed conflict, and his deployment of the military as part of the response dominated international news and captured the attention of Washington policymakers last week.  Ecuador’s homicide

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