The highlights this week: Latin America reacts to the discourse at the World Economic Forum , Guatemala enacts a state of emergency , and Chile battles deadly wildfires .
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The highlights this week: Latin America reacts to the discourse at the World Economic Forum, Guatemala enacts a state of emergency, and Chile battles deadly wildfires.
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Active Nonalignment Goes Mainstream
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s show-stealing speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week carried a direct message to many Latin American countries. After denouncing the liberal international order as a “fiction,” Carney called for “middle powers” to unite to defend their shared principles, autonomy, and economies—or risk ending up on the “menu” of more powerful ones.
Carney was reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated shattering of norms, including respect for other countries’ sovereignty and international treaties. Trump has threatened to make Canada the 51st U.S. state and has shown disregard for a trade pact that he negotiated with the United States’ northern neighbor in his first term.
Latin American countries are even more familiar than Canada with assertive U.S. behavior. That’s due to a long history of U.S.
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