Canning Insights

Venezuela’s surreal red package

Mexico agrees to save Nafta, but at what cost?

PT tries ‘Plan A’ in Brazil

Maduro orders crackdown after alleged assassination attempt

In March 1812 Simón Bolívar, the future liberator of South America, stood in the rubble of his hometown, Caracas. The Venezuelan capital had been levelled by an enormous earthquake and aftershock and as he led the rescue efforts, Bolívar announced: “If nature itself decides to oppose us, we will fight and force her to obey!” Two hundred years later, Latin American governments are still struggling to predict, mitigate and respond to natural disasters.

Foreign direct investment down again in 2017