The chaos laid the groundwork for the rise of Bukele, a man who once described himself as “the world’s coolest dictator.” And ...

The deal, announced in April, has handed President Javier Milei a significant victory, though critical questions remain about whether the country can finally break its cycle of boom and bust. When the ...

Brazil’s role at the heart of an expanded and more authoritarian-dominated BRICS is part of Lula’s increasingly incoherent foreign policy.

But that work was more limited in scope, and in the two decades since it was published, a new generation of caudillos has arisen, including Bukele, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Argentina’s Javier Milei ...