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Elite Power and State Strength: A Timely Focus of Academic Studies
By Eric Hershberg lapidim / Flickr / Creative Commons Insufficient state revenues are one fundamental reason that many Latin American governments fail to provide their citizens with adequate education,...
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Panama: A Central American Singapore?
By Tom Long* Singapore (left) and Panama City (right) / William Cho and Jim Nix / Flickr / Creative Commons As a transportation hub, logistics center, and regional financial player, Panama has long...
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OAS: New Leadership, Old Challenges
By Aaron Bell and Fulton Armstrong José Miguel Insulza and Luis Almagro Lemes Photo Credit: OEA – OAS / Flickr / Creative Commons Uruguayan diplomat Luis Almagro, elected secretary general of the...
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Why Is Madrid Not in the Game in Latin America?
By Fulton Armstrong Pres. Mariano Rajoy (Spain) y Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia), signing an agreement at the Palacio de La Moncloa. Photo Credit: La Moncloa Gobierno de España / Flickr / Creative...
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Brazilian Truth Commission Looks at Police Violence
By Paula Orlando March in commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the Carandiru massacre in 2014. Photo credit: veredaestreita / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA A new truth commission is about to investigate...
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Corruption in Chile and Brazil
By Luciano Melo Brazilian Pres. Rousseff (l) and Chilean Pres. Bachelet. Photo Credit: UN Women / Flickr / Creative Commons A growing perception of corruption in Latin America, most recently in Brazil...
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Brazil on the Global Stage: Power, Ideas, and the International Order
By Matthew Taylor and Oliver Stuenkel* Now available via Palgrave Macmillan. Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world – yet its rise challenges...
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Mexico Elections: Successful Balloting, Mixed Results
By Eric Hershberg and Fulton Armstrong Preparing for elections in Chiapas, Mexico last week. Photo Credit: Dimitri dF / Flickr / Creative Commons Mexico’s mid-term elections last Sunday to select...
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Guatemala’s Crisis is Not Over
By Eric Hershberg* Guatemala City, August 2015. Photo Courtesy of Eric Hershberg. With President Otto Pérez Molina’s resignation early this morning, Guatemala lurches into a new phase in its...
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Honduras: No Solution in Sight
Photo Credit: OAS / Flickr / Creative Commons CLALS and the Inter-American Dialogue this week hosted a conversation on the crisis in Honduras with experts Hugo Noé Pino, of the Instituto...
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Haiti: Elections Better than Expected?
By Emma Fawcett* Photo Credit: Haiti Innovation / Flickr / Creative Commons Security and logistics for Haiti’s October 25 elections went much better than expected, but the results – preliminarily...
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Bolivia: Implications of Referendum for Democracy and the MAS
By Santiago Anria* Photo Credit: zak / Flickr / Creative Commons A Bolivian referendum on February 21 – one month after the 10th anniversary of President Morales’s rise to power – threatens a break...
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Haiti: Postponed Elections, Ever-Deepening Crisis
By Emma Fawcett* Photo Credit: mackendy mentor, Kurious, and KeshtoKar (modified) / YouTube, Pixabay, and Wikimedia Commons / Licensed for noncommercial reuse Postponement of Haiti’s protracted...
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U.S.-Colombia: Launching “Peace Colombia”
By Eric Hershberg and Fulton Armstrong Photo Credit: U.S. Department of State / Flickr / Public Domain The United States, buoyed by good feelings about what President Obama called Colombia’s...
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Hope Fading for Guatemalan Spring
By Ricardo Barrientos* Photo Credit: Publinews Guatemala / YouTube / Creative Commons The high hopes created by Guatemala’s peaceful, democratic change of government last year are hitting the shoals of...
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The Critical Role of Universities in Latin America’s Future
By Rodrigo Arocena* University students in Monterrey, Mexico. Photo Credit: ·júbilo·haku· / Flickr / Creative Commons As the latest commodity boom winds down, universities in Latin America can play a...
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Political Upheaval in South America
By Eric Hershberg Thousands of protesters in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Photo Credit: Google Images 2016 is proving to be this century’s most complicated year to date for South American political systems,...
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Mexico: Repressing Organized Dissent
By Marcie Neil* A photo from the protest on June 19. Credit: LibreRed / Google / Creative Commons The Mexican government’s latest reaction to the country’s largest teachers union’s challenge to...
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Can Latin America Achieve Fiscally Sustainable and Egalitarian Social...
By Fernando Filgueira* Photo Credit: Jan Tik / Flickr / Creative Commons Latin America is undergoing a profound transformation of its social policies and of the very concept of social citizenship, but...
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Nicaragua: A New Family Dynasty Taking Root
By Aaron T. Bell* Left: Photo of Daniel Ortega celebrating his latest presidential triumph (July 20, 2012) / Fundación ONG de Nicaragua / Wikimedia / Creative Commons; Right: Anastasio Somoza DeBayle /...
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