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Argentina’s Scandal Risk, Bolivia’s Crisis, and the “Don-roe Doctrine”

Argentina’s improving economic data is being overshadowed by scandal. Bolivia’s crisis is reaching a tipping point. And Washington’s “Don-roe Doctrine” is putting US interventionism back at the center of Latin America’s political and commercial map.

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Today on Sentinel Plus:

*Better Argentine economic news undercut by scandal, *Bolivia’s search for a way out of its quicksand crisis, and
*the Don-roe Doctrine on display across Latin America.

Argentina has finally produced economic data that President Javier Milei can point to as evidence that shock therapy is beginning to work, but will scandal under it?

Bolivia is facing economic, social, and political crises as Presidente Paz moves toward a tipping point.

The third signal is regional. US interventionism in Latin America is not new, but the current version is more direct, more visible, and more tied to competition with China.

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China’s Economic Strain Raises the Stakes for Latin America

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Weekend Sentinel - Europe Energy, Argentina Pays Up, Mexico Inflation

Latin America’s Data Center Boom Becomes a Business-Risk Signal

The Panama Canal Is Latin America’s Chokepoint Story

China’s Economic Strain Raises the Stakes for Latin America