The year 2022 was a vintage one for political turmoil in Latin America. Colombia elected a leftwing former guerrilla as president, Chile considered (and rejected) a radical new constitution, Peru’s president has been put in pre-trial detention after a failed attempt to seize extraordinary powers and Brazil’s far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro narrowly lost a bid for re-election.It was also a record year for foreign direct investment. Investors committed $225bn to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022, according to ECLAC, the UN’s economic agency for the region. That was 55 per cent more than the previous year and comfortably surpassed the previous peak a decade earlier. Part of the increase was a post-pandemic rebound but the number of future projects announced also rose, though more modestly.
2022年是拉丁美洲政治动荡的一年。哥伦比亚选举一名左翼前游击队员为总统，智利考虑（并否决了）一部激进的新宪法，秘鲁总统在试图夺取特别权力失败后被审前羁押，而巴西极右翼领导人雅伊尔•博索纳罗(Jair Bolsonaro)在竞选连任中以微弱差距落败。