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年是拉丁美洲政治動蕩的一年。哥倫比亞選舉一名左翼前游擊隊員為總統(tǒng)，智利考慮（并否決了）一部激進的新憲法，秘魯總統(tǒng)在試圖奪取特別權(quán)力失敗后被審前羈押，而巴西極右翼領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人雅伊爾?博索納羅(Jair Bolsonaro)在競選連任中以微弱差距落敗。