Latin American Keys is an informative and analytical summary regarding the political and economic situation in the Latin American region. These key takeaways, prepared monthly by ATREVIA´s Analysis and Research team, serve to be a useful tool in understanding the evolution of the political-institutional state of Latin America, a need that the pandemic has further exaggerated.
If 2020 was the year marked by the pandemic and its economic impact, 2021 begins as a year of challenges for Latin America. From 2021 to 2024, the countries in the region will enter a new period of high electoral intensity in which all, except Bolivia and Cuba, will go to the polls to renew or ratify their leaders in a context of high polarization and political fragmentation. In addition, there is a heavy social burden aggravated by the economic crisis sparked by the pandemic.
Vaccination plans are achieving their objectives: Ecuador´s government fulfilled its promise to
vaccinate 9 million people with two doses in its first 100 days, and Chile has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. Other countries are also making positive progress, such as Argentina,
which has managed to fully vaccinate more than a third of its population, or Mexico, where more
than 65% of its citizens have received at least one dose.
Two noteworthy outcomes stem from the pandemic’s management. On the one hand, there is
optimism surrounding the improved macroeconomic state due to economic recovery. On the other
hand, the realistic approach of facing structural problems: political, such as tension among the
different government branches in Brazil and Peru; and social, such as the increase in social insecurity in Colombia and the persistence of inequality throughout the region.
Click here to access the Latin American Keys summary for September 2021.