US threats for new Chile leader, China tariff on Mexico: 7 Latin America relations reads

Chile’s President Jose Antonio Kast greets supporters.

Photo: AFP We have selected seven of the most interesting and important news stories covering Latin American relations from the past few weeks.

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Photo: AFP As Washington stepped up rhetoric and pressure on Cuba after the start of its campaign in Iran, Beijing found itself torn between geopolitical reality and ideological affinity.

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Photo: Reuters As Jose Antonio Kast prepared for his inauguration, his government’s first crisis was already unfolding behind the scenes, as the US forced Chile to cancel a Chinese undersea cable.

The region was left asking who gets to decide what infrastructure Latin America builds.

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Photo: AFP China denied that it had intensified inspections of Panama-flagged vessels in retaliation for Panama’s decision to strip a Hong Kong-based conglomerate of port concessions at both ends of the Panama Canal, accusing Washington of seeking to seize control of the strategic waterway.

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Photo: AFP The US military started monitoring 23 Chinese port projects and 12 space-enabling facilities across Latin America and said every one of them could be “a potential dual-use asset” that could support Chinese military operations.

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Photo: Reuters According to officials, Washington did not want a Chinese company to win the concession for a major container terminal in Santos, the largest port in Latin America, in the latest sign that the race for one of Brazil’s most prized infrastructure assets has become a front in the broader rivalry between Washington and Beijing.

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Photo: EPA China warned Mexico it could impose retaliatory measures after concluding a formal investigation into tariffs imposed on more than 1,400 categories of Asian goods, complicating Mexico’s negotiations to renew its trade agreement with the United States.

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Photo: Handout Outgoing Chilean president Gabriel Boric left La Moneda presidential palace for the last time in March, ending a four-year term with a call for national unity that most observers took as a reference to the Chinese undersea cable dispute that defined his final weeks in office.

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