Key points:
The Latin America Risk Report is no longer offer paying subscriptions. If you signed up as a paying subscriber, your credit cards will not be charged anything further.
The newsletter will continue to be published for free several times per week.
My company, Hxagon will offer a new weekly analysis product for corporate clients next year. If you are interested, you can receive several months for free as a thank you for being paying subscribers to the Latin America Risk Report.
If you want a refund for any reason, I will give you a refund. Just reply to this email and ask.
Thanks for reading!
Recently, a business consultant asked me, "Are you trying to run a media company or a consulting company?" The answer is that I've been trying to do both for too long.
The consulting company, Hxagon, is going well. We provide political risk analysis and bespoke research to clients. It's been a very busy and successful year. 2023 is shaping up to be even better. Thanks to Lucy Hale, Arianna Kohan, Jordi Amaral, and everyone else who has worked with me in recent years for making that possible.
Meanwhile, the economics on running a paid newsletter at $9 per month simply don't work for me. I've tried for several years now to turn my blogging hobby into a worthwhile paying gig and I can't break through the plateau that would make it sustainable.
So I've made the decision to stop running paid subscriptions, only publish this newsletter for free, and focus the business on the paid consulting side.
It's an odd month to be making this decision. Twitter is crashing. Substack is surging. Millions of people saw my absurd map and I had a surge of signups for the free newsletter immediately after that occurred. There is a temptation to keep trying to make the paid media thing work. But for now, I'm going back to doing this all for free.
If you are a current paying subscriber, thank you so much for your support up until now. Your credit card will not be charged again for this newsletter. I'm offering you two options moving forward:
I can put you on a list to receive three months of Hxagon's new weekly analysis product that will launch in late January 2023.
If you want a refund, I'll give you a refund of your most recent payment. Just respond to this email to ask for a refund and I'll make it happen.
If you have any questions, you're welcome to contact me by replying to this email.
Whether you're a relatively recent subscriber or you've known me long enough to have read my initial blog posts 18 years ago, thanks for reading and supporting my writing.