Paolo Manzo

Paolo Manzo is a professional journalist specialized in Latin American economics. He writes for the Italian think tank Centro Einaudi and works as a foreign correspondent from Brazil. He publishes regularly in the Italian media and has written for the Brazilian weekly CartaCapital, as well as for Focus, Vanity Fair, Le Monde and Time.

Il Venezuela di Maduro dopo Maduro

La cattura di Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela da parte degli Stati Uniti rappresenta un evento eccezionale nella storia politica contemporanea dell’America Latina, ma non privo di precedenti. Un riferimento storico rilevante è il caso di…

Milei’s Argentina: a populist leaders’ ideas being put to the test

There is great interest in the foreign policy that Argentina's new President, Javier Milei, will implement when he assumes office at the Casa Rosada on December 10th. His initial actions, since winning against Peronist Sergio Massa in the…

Chile’s political past still weighing on its present

Chile remains divided 50 years after the military coup that ousted the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende from office on September 11, 1973. More than 40,000 victims, including more than 3,200 dead and missing,…

Brazil and its neighbors facing political extremism

The violent takeover of the Brazilian Parliament and the storming of the Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court on January 8th are worrisome signs for the country, as well as Latin America as a whole, at the start of an already critical…

Bolsonaro’s defeat and Lula’s comeback

After four years of right-wing populist Jair Messias Bolsonaro, Brazil embraces again, for the third time, the leftist vision of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula left the Planalto Palace on December 31, 2010, with an approval rating of over…

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