Editorial

Before dawn, on the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes, a woman walks through the mist to gather the firewood that will light her household stove. Thousands of kilometres away, in a control centre in southern Brazil, a technical team monitors in real time as an artificial intelligence algorithm optimises the...

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is making decisive progress toward a more sustainable electricity mix. The strategic challenge we now face is to transform millions of tonnes of solar panels, batteries, and wind turbines reaching the end of their useful lives into a driver of regional integration, reindustrialization, and...

For decades, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has faced an energy paradox: it is one of the richest regions in renewable resources worldwide, yet it continues to operate under fragmented infrastructure and regulatory frameworks. In today’s context of global energy reconfiguration, this challenge has become impossible to ignore. The...

At a time when international energy markets are facing some of their greatest uncertainties in decades, Latin America and the Caribbean is once again confronted with a fundamental question: how can energy security be ensured in a region characterized by diversity, inequality and vulnerability to external shocks? The recent LIV...

In the context of one of the most significant energy disruptions in recent decades, Latin America and the Caribbean are advancing a coordinated response and action. The Ministerial Energy Dialogue, convened by the Latin American and Caribbean Energy Organization (OLACDE) at the end of April 2026, not only addressed the...

The growing tension in the Persian Gulf once again makes clear that oil remains the main channel through which international crises are transmitted to economies. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are not immune to this reality. Despite having one of the cleanest electricity systems in the world, the region...