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This article analyses the potential occurrence of financial contagion in Latin American markets from the recent U.S. subprime crisis. Distinctively from the usual empirical approaches for contagion analyses, a regime‐switching skew‐normal model is implemented in order to assess both correlation and coskewness contagion as well as investigate the occurrence of structural breaks in the moments of the...