With its clean energy matrix, the region could capitalize on the green transition—if leaders in Mexico and Brazil get with the program.

Once able to rely on larger-than-life finance ministers, the region’s business leaders now need to make the public case for free markets via retail politics.

As 2022 comes to a close, here are five positive stories on the foreign policy front that happened in the past year. 

A growing number of countries are legalizing same-sex marriage amid a steady advance in rights for LGBTQ+ people, but opposition remains strong in many others.