Hemispheric relations, Hispanic heritage, and the geopolitics of the Americas. We investigate USMCA renegotiations, nearshoring, Pan-American diplomacy, bilingual governance, Spanish colonial law, Latin American urbanism, and U.S. double standards. Half of America lives in former Mexican territory—this geography shapes everything.
13 articles
NAFTA's Second Act
A blueprint for a clean, fast, bilingual North American economy ahead of the 2026 USMCA review. Trade is a sentence written in verbs: make, certify, clear, deliver. For three decades, North America conjugated those verbs under NAFTA; in 2020 we swapped the grammar for USMCA and kept moving.
August 14, 2025
The Atlantic Speaks Two Languages
The future likes to hide in plain geography. One shore is Spain: reforming, digitizing, and growing faster than its neighbors, with a power grid now majority-renewable. The other shore is Latin America: a continent of copper and code, lithium and logistics.
June 16, 2025
Madrid After Miami: How Spain Can Become the Hemisphere''s Other Capital
For a generation, Miami has styled itself the 'capital of Latin America'—a boast stitched from air routes, private-banking ledgers, and the glow of Spanish-language studios on the Palmetto. The proposition of this essay is not to deny that reality but to widen the map: Spain can shoulder a.
June 12, 2025