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Latin American geopolitical and economic strategic outlook

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The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL/ECLAC) has released a report titled ‘Ruptures and opportunities: proposals for Latin America and the Caribbean to prosper in the new geopolitical era.’ The document suggests that the region’s 660 million people should utilize abundant assets—including lithium, copper, graphite, rare-earth minerals, biodiversity, fresh water, and green hydrogen potential—as strategic bargaining tools amidst intensifying US-China rivalry and the erosion of multilateralism. CEPAL emphasizes the necessity of deeper regional economic integration and warns against rigid alignments with great powers. While the region faces political fragmentation and instability, the report argues that these critical resources can be leveraged for development and negotiating power in a changing global order. To navigate a landscape of multipolar geoeconomic fragmentation, the report advocates for an “active non-alignment” policy. This strategy aims policy to break cycles of dependency by moving move beyond traditional primary-export models. Instead, the region is encouraged to models and incorporate higher value-added processes into its production, specifically regarding minerals processes. By 2026, the region continues to face a period of geopolitical and economic redefinition. Despite holding critical mineral assets essential for digital and the global energy transitions. This approach aligns transition, economic growth remains modest, with projections between 2.0% and 2.2%. The region is simultaneously grappling with rising insecurity, organized crime, corruption, and a dramatic migration crisis. These internal pressures have contributed to the structuralist tradition rise of transforming productive structures to reduce external dependence conservative and transform global instability into opportunities for far-right political movements fueled by anti-establishment sentiment. Experts warn that without strong institutions and standardized environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, the region risks remaining a self-sustained development model. mere exporter of raw materials without achieving significant domestic prosperity.

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