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Cuban National Assembly Takes Modest Steps on Reforms
Photo by Nathan Laurell via Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/nglklm/7146331353 Speaking to the two-day semi-annual session, President Raúl Castro reiterated the leadership’s commitment to...
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Unanswered Questions about Cuban Dissident’s Activities and Death
Photo by dumplife (Mihai Romanciuc) via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/62585343@N00/429146557/ Three weeks after the death of Cuban activist Osvaldo Payá, the questions that remain unanswered are...
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Venezuelan Elections: Chávez Wins, but Confirms Country’s Divide
Henrique Capriles Radonski and Hugo Chávez | Venezuela’s Globovision | Flickr | Creative Commons license Following a tense day of voting on Sunday, incumbent Hugo Chávez has won the Venezuelan...
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Honduras: What is U.S. policy?
The sustained surge in crime and violence in Honduras – including more than 60 politically motivated murders in the past year – is raising doubts about the viability of the government and its...
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Political Participation in Latin America Expanding
From local citizen initiatives to national referenda, mechanisms of direct political participation have been spreading with astonishing vigor throughout Latin America in recent years. Some of these...
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Central American Elites Are Evolving But Cling to Power
From left to right: Manuel Torres, Ricardo Barrientos, Hugo Noé Pino, Aaron Schneider and Elizabeth Oglesby participating in the project seminar in Costa Rica The sources of Central American elites’...
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Correa’s Second Term
By Rob Albro, CLALS Faculty Affiliate President Rafael Correa, Ecuador | by: “el quinto infierno” | Flickr | Creative Commons Little drama accompanied results of the February 17 election in Ecuador,...
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What Can Be Learned from the Humala Government?
By Rob Albro President Humala inaugurating electric power in the rural district of Moro – Ancash Photo credit: Presidencia Perú / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA As a candidate in Peru’s 2006 presidential...
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Chavismo Wins a Battle But the Tide May Have Turned
By Eric Hershberg Inauguration of Nicolás Maduro | Photo credit: Presidencia de la República del Ecuador / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration last Friday marked a new stage...
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Brazil Protests: Amorphous Causes, Unpredictable Consequences
by Matthew M. Taylor Protestors in Brazil / Photo credit: Izaias Buson / Foter.com / CC BY-NC Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians hit the streets of a dozen state capitals this past week. The initial...
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Chile Elections: Bachelet’s Partial Victory
By Maribel Vasquez and Eric Hershberg President Michelle Bachelet / Photo credit: Chile Ayuda a Chile / Flickr / CC-BY-NC-ND Elections last Sunday didn’t give former President Michelle Bachelet the...
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Honduran Election Crisis Marks New Phase in Country’s Agony
By CLALS Staff Juan Orlando Hernández Photo credit: Tercera Informacion / wikimedia commons / and Xiomara Castro / Photo credit: hablaguate / Flickr / Creative Commons Yesterday’s election in Honduras...
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Subnational Regimes Reveal Uneven Nature of Democracy
By Agustina Giraudy Peruvian mayoral campaign poster / Photo credit: Pedro Rivas Ugaz / Flickr / CC-BY Most Latin American countries have transitioned away from autocracy and authoritarianism over the...
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Haiti: Crisis as Usual
By CLALS Staff World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and Haitian President Michel Martelly / Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection / Foter / CC-BY-NC-ND Half way through his term, President...
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Will Costa Rica Seize the Opportunity?
By Fulton Armstrong #483212321 / gettyimages.com Costa Rican voters have given President-elect Luis Guillermo Solís a mandate for change, but they have also given him a Legislature and culture of...
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Downsides of Decentralization: Lessons from Peru
By Eric Hershberg #165908033 / gettyimages.com Decentralization – the buzzword among Washington-based specialists on governance during the 1990s and well into the first decade of the 21st century –...
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Colombia: Four More Years for Santos
By Eric Hershberg Photo Credit: eltiempo.com / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Incumbent center-right president Juan Manuel Santos emerged...
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Who Will Attend the OAS Presidential Summit in Panama?
By Fulton Armstrong and Eric Hershberg OAE-OAS & tgraham / Flickr / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The Summit of the Americas isn’t until next...
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The Open Veins of Latin America: Disowned?
By Núria Vilanova tintincai / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 Forty-three years after its publication, the emblematic and widely read Latin American anti-colonialist bestseller The Open Veins of Latin America...
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Social Science that Matters: Pérez Sáinz on Latin America’s Inequalities
By Eric Hershberg Image courtesy of FLACSO-Costa Rica Latin America has made important advances dealing with income inequality over the past decade, but sustaining this modest progress requires a...
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