The Latin America 2020 seminar held in Santiago, Chile, on 6-8 June, brought together 20 experts from a broad array of disciplines, backgrounds, and Latin American countries — including Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico.
Like the other NIC 2020 seminars, this one examined a series of drivers of change, assessed the trends within each driver, built a series of plausible scenarios in the year 2020, and identified wild cards that would lead to greater discontinuities in the future.
The National Intelligence Council routinely sponsors unclassified conferences with outside experts to sharpen the level of debate on critical issues. The views expressed in the following papers are those of individual participants. They are presented not as final reports of the NIC 2020 project but to stimulate discussion and debate. The papers are labeled discussion paper -- does not represent the views of the US Government -- and should not be cited in any other manner.
