Brazil, Colombia and a Regional Case for Optimism

Deep South podcast by Americas Quarterly

Mar 12, 202630:44News & Politics

After seven years covering Latin America for the Financial Times, and a previous post in the 1990s, Michael Stott is leaving the region as an optimist. His argument: that Latin America's strengths have been systemat...

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