Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief.
The highlights this week: Argentina and Brazil take different approaches to AI, the United States carries out a military strike in Venezuela, and Lionel Messi scores a World Cup hat trick.
Last week, Brazil became the fifth country—and the first from the global south—to sign a digital partnership agreement with the European Union, following Canada, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. The deal commits the EU and Brazil to annual meetings on topics such as ethical artificial intelligence use and tech cooperation.
“Europe and Latin America are allies in many areas, like regulation of big tech companies,” said Celso Amorim, the top foreign-policy advisor to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in a Tuesday speech at the Forte International Security Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil’s legislature is currently considering a draft AI regulatory framework that borrows heavily from the EU’s stringent approach. Brazil is not the only country in the region trying to position itself as a global leader on AI. While Lula pushes for the safe and ethical use of AI, Argentine President Javier Milei is taking a different tack—trying to cut as much red tape as he can.
