The highlights this week: Chile, Mexico, and Peru talk trade at a summit in Asia, U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean imperil regional diplomacy , and a beloved podcast celebrates its quinceañera.

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Latin America at APEC

Last week’s tête-à-tête between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was far from the only news at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea. Officials from APEC’s Latin American members—Chile, Mexico, and Peru—attended the event and announced new steps toward trade integration with Asian partners.

Their visits, which followed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s appearance at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit days before, continue a trend of Latin American countries seeking to deepen trade ties with Asia in the face of U.S. tariffs.

At APEC, Chilean President Gabriel Boric called trade protectionism an “elephant in the room,” saying that “it is multilateralism and dialogue that will bring development, not impositions by the strongest actor.”

On the sidelines of the summit, Chile and S