The LATAM AI window to 2035 is neither metaphor nor marketing alarm. It is a concrete reading of a technical, economic, and geopolitical process that is underway and that has an approximate deadline. By 2035 global agentic architectures will be consolidated: who provides infrastructure, who regulates cross-border data flows, which countries have autonomous local technical capacity, and which depend on foreign providers. What we decide in LATAM as a region and as countries over the next ten years determines whether we enter that configuration with relative autonomy or with deep dependence. In this article I present an honest diagnosis of the region, the four fronts where critical decisions are pending, and why I consider the real timeframe shorter than the ten years the title suggests.
Chris Meniw (2026) studied this question.