IllustrationBrazil
Runs on soy, iron ore, oil and beef — and a domestic market so vast it has spent decades barely needing to look outward.
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IllustrationRuns on soy, iron ore, oil and beef — and a domestic market so vast it has spent decades barely needing to look outward.
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IllustrationRuns on manufacturing and autos, remittances, and trade with the United States — an extension of the North American economy making a structural bet on nearshoring.
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IllustrationRuns on soy and beef, grains, gas and lithium — the richest natural hand in the hemisphere, set against a century-long fight with inflation.
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IllustrationRuns on oil, coal, coffee and flowers — an oil-and-coffee republic competing on quality where it cannot compete on volume.
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IllustrationRuns on copper above all, plus lithium, fruit and wine — a fiscal rule anchored to a long-run copper price has smoothed the cycle better than most.
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IllustrationRuns on copper and gold, fishmeal and farm exports — an extraordinary mineral endowment whose licence to extract is perpetually contested.
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IllustrationRuns on beef, soy, dairy and services — a small, stable state that absorbed Argentina's perpetual turbulence next door without being consumed by it.
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IllustrationRuns on oil, bananas and shrimp — a dollarised economy that traded the exchange-rate buffer for imported monetary credibility.
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IllustrationRuns on natural gas, minerals and some of the world's largest lithium reserves — a subsoil economy mid-transition as gas declines and lithium is slow to arrive.
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IllustrationThe region sells what the ground gives it and buys what it cannot yet make — a structural pattern that has outlasted every reform agenda.
IllustrationMoney in Latin America is never just money — it is a ledger of political choices, a record of crises survived and a daily bet on state credibility.
IllustrationThe exports that made Latin America rich — and the cycles that keep making it poor again.
IllustrationThree countries, one vast deposit, and a bet on the electric future.
IllustrationChina's rise reshaped Latin American trade faster than any policy ever could — and the relationship is still settling.
IllustrationCommodity wealth and stubborn inequality, reform and relapse — why the region's story is more structural than the news cycle admits.
IllustrationWhy Latin America got richer and then stopped — and what breaking through would actually require.
IllustrationThe official GDP figures are missing the point — and half the workers.
| Commodity | Anchor economies |
|---|---|
| Copper | Chile · Peru |
| Soy | Brazil · Argentina · Uruguay |
| Oil | Colombia · Ecuador · Venezuela |
| Coffee | Brazil · Colombia |
| Lithium | Chile · Argentina · Bolivia |
| Iron ore | Brazil |
| Natural gas | Bolivia · Argentina |
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Desks, research offices, and regional bodies whose reading of Latin American markets, trade flows, and structural data runs parallel to the work gathered here.