Why you should watch: Chile is writing a new Constitution; Colombia and Brazil face deeply polarizing elections. Peru's new(ish) government has seen three cabinets and four finance ministers in six months... And then there's Venezuela and Nicaragua, two essentially failed states. And Argentina - though it got a break from the IMF. And what about Bukele's Bitcoin experiment in El Salvador. Oh, don't forget Mexico... Latin America matters - and it faces a tough year as it recovers from a bad dose of Covid at a time of rising interest rates and supply chain disruption. Two former finance ministers discuss the outlook.

Moderator: Andrew Hilton (Director, CSFI)

Andrés Velasco is currently dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He is a former Professor of International Finance at the Kennedy School, who served as Finance Minister in Chile from 2006 to 2010, and was a Presidential candidate in 2013. He subsequently spent four years as a Professor of Practise at Columbia, before coming to London.

Manuel Hinds enjoyed two terms as Finance Minister in El Salvador, winning the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize in 2010. In the 1980s, he was a Division Chief at the World Bank in Washington, and was subsequently a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has consulted extensively for the Bank and Fund, and is the author of many books, most recently 'In Defense of Liberal Democracy'.