Catherine Osborn
@cculbertosborn
Brazil-based journalist. Writer of FP's Latin America Brief: http://foreignpolicy.com/newsletters-ma…
If not by selling oil, how to keep growing? For @ForeignPolicy I wrote about how Colombia is diving into the global industrial policy wave in an effort to answer this question. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/07/col…
This week’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief is about Suriname’s election amid growing international clout. The country is ramping up plans for offshore oil production and sent the Caribbean’s first Secretary-General to the OAS. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/sur…
Thanks @cculbertosborn, for quoting me on the state of BRICS as the Rio summit approaches in your always-excellent newsletter in @ForeignPolicy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/04/bri…
Today’s @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief previews the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro and looks at how Brazil is trying to put its stamp on the group amid its expansion. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/04/bri…
This week’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief is about the COP30 warm-up talks in Bonn. They produced new draft language on a just transition away from fossil fuels, even as 🇧🇷 held a controversial auction of drilling rights off the coast of the Amazon River. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/27/bra…
This week’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief looks at regional leaders’ priorities at the G7 summit. For Mexico’s Sheinbaum, whose predecessor never attended the event, the trip signaled a shift toward a more globally oriented foreign policy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/19/bra…
“We have public education, health, and transportation policies, but we don’t have public digital connectivity policies. That is absolutely inexplicable today.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/lat…
Today’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief is about an effort to put Latin America on the 🌎 AI map via a large language model drawing from deep archives of data in the region. It aims to address gaps & oversimplifications from models trained mostly in English. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/lat…
Today’s @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief looks at 🇲🇽’s shock therapy to its judiciary. Plans for the nationwide election had already rankled trade partners before it produced a top court full of judges tied to the ruling party on Sunday. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/mex…
Today’s @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief is about the uproar in El Salvador over what experts say is a swift closing of civic space, with journalists fleeing, a top government critic arrested, and a new law taxing and tracking nonprofits. Many see echoes of 🇳🇮. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/el-…
Gracias por este hermoso obituario @Guilledraper "In his final speech to parliament, after listening to many colleagues and political rivals praise him, Mujica stressed that there was no place for hatred in his life because he knew what such feelings could generate."
Uruguay’s José Mujica, who went from urban guerrilla to tortured prisoner to elected president, has died at age 89. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/13/uru…
In today’s @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief, Trump expands his approach of FTO listings for Latin American crime groups to 🇭🇹. The move underscored the lack of a unified security strategy in the country despite the many actors engaged there, @romainlecour said. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/hai…
Today's @ForeignPolicy LatAm Brief is about two long-anticipated tests for Argentina's Milei: reaching a new IMF deal and partially floating the peso. The float has so far proved naysayers wrong, while the deal tells a larger story of 🇺🇸-🇦🇷 relations. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/02/arg…
In the face of Trump’s dramatic new trade barriers, Latin American countries are getting more creative, writes @cculbertosborn. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/25/tru…
Today in @ForeignPolicy: How Latin America produced a nonaligned pope. Not only Francis’s experience of the Cold War in Argentina but also the 🇦🇷 spiritual tradition of theology of the people influenced his approach to the Vatican’s geopolitics. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/25/pop…
In today's @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief, Ecuador’s Noboa is reelected president, Chile continues its large-scale battery boom, and Peruvians remember the iconoclastic Mario Vargas Llosa. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/18/ecu…
In today’s @ForeignPolicy Latin America Brief: regional leaders talk trade and the UN Secretary-General election in 🇭🇳, 🇨🇱 enlarges its estimate of lithium resources, and an Indigenous team from 🇪🇨 makes history in the South American Cup. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/cel…
This week’s @ForeignPolicy Lat Am Brief is about how officials in the region are responding to Wednesday’s round of U.S. tariffs—which some expected would be more severe. Plus, what Gabriel Boric and Narendra Modi agreed on during Boric's visit to India. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/wha…
🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #PlazaCentral, “Shifting Migration Trends in the Americas,” a conversation between journalist @mollymotoole and host @benjamingedan on US migration policy in the Western Hemisphere. wilsoncenter.org/audio/shifting…