End of preview - This article contains approximately 909 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Security & Strategic Review - February 2023
ECUADOR: Lasso looks to strengthen ties with US
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso met his US counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on 19 December to discuss deepening the economic and security partnership between the two countries, including strengthening economic integration through the bilateral Trade and Investment Council Agreement and the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity Initiative. Whilst Lasso walked away with promises of deeper security cooperation, his central objective of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US remains unrealised – although Ecuador’s swift progress towards striking such an agreement with China may prompt the Biden administration to reconsider.
- A dire year for press freedom in Central America
- COLOMBIA: The shifting dynamics of conflict
- REGION: Andean countries struggle with food insecurity
- ECUADOR: Lasso looks to strengthen ties with US
- BOLIVIA: Gov’t claims progress on coca eradication
- BRAZIL: Undoing Bolsonaro’s foreign policy legacy
- CHILE: Boric’s blunders
- CHILE: Fishy business threatens national parks
- MEXICO: Recapturing Ovidio Guzmán López
- MEXICO: Partial electoral reform pushed through
- MEXICO: Prison break highlights systemic flaws
- COSTA RICA/REGION: Costa Rica registers record homicides in 2022
- EL SALVADOR: Security plan enters new phase
- HAITI: An overview of the country’s main gangs
- ANTIGUA & BARBUDA: No change in Antigua
- REGION: Capacity and resilience building for Caribbean small island states