WorldcrunchArmando Montenegro is a journalist at the Colombian daily El Espectador. Previously, he was director of the National Planning Department, president of the National Association of Financial Institutions (ANIF), and alternate director at the World Bank. Montenegro holds a PhD in economics from New York University.
The former U.S. president and Republican nominee Donald Trump is threatening to revive his choice policies of curbing immigration and trade, and nobody would suffer as a result quite as much as the hundreds of millions of Latin Americans who may be forced to turn toward China and the Global South.
Venezuela and its neighbors are nervously waiting to see if President Maduro and his clique will soon hold a fair election, or cling onto power, fueling more despair and unleashing yet another migratory wave over the region.