Evan Ellis
Dr. Evan Ellis is an analyst of Latin American economic, political and security issues, with a research focus on Latin America’s relationships with China and other actors beyond the region, including India, Russia and Iran. Dr. Ellis is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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China’s Relationship with Chile: The Struggle for the Future Regime of the Pacific
Though superpower diplomacy dominated coverage of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) leaders summit in November, China’s upgrading of a free-trade agreement with Chile served to highlight the strength
Costa Rica at Crossroads in Courtship with Beijing
In few other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have the strategic objectives of China been as clear as in its relationship with Costa Rica. Yet in few other
Chinese Commercial Engagement with Guyana: The Challenges of Physical Presence and Political Change
For the People’s Republic of China, its relationship with Guyana has been one of its longest, most consistently close relationships in Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet, between June and
Organized Crime Exploits China’s Growing Links to Latin America
In April 2012, authorities in the prosperous and generally peaceful Caribbean nation of Belize intercepted a shipment of precursor chemicals sent from China and apparently bound for representatives of the
China’s Engagement with Peru: An Increasingly Strategic Relationship
In the first weeks of November 2011, a series of independent events in the diplomatic, economic and security domains highlight how the new Peruvian government of Ollanta Humala is using
China’s Cautious Economic and Strategic Gamble in Venezuela
Since coming to power in February 1999, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has waged a highly visible campaign against the U.S. and Western “imperialism” in Latin America, replete with fiery rhetoric,