Six stories - 30 January 2025

Including two Ecuador pre-mortems describing how analysts will explain the day after why it was so obvious in hindsight that Noboa won or lost the election.

Happy Thursday. One goal I have is to focus exclusively on US-LatAm relations on Mondays and then use the Thursday newsletter to highlight stories that aren’t directly about the US. That could be a challenge for the first half of 2025 as the new US administration dominates a lot of the discussion. Some mention of Trump works its way into a few of the it…