Experts and pundits have decided that education is the magic bullet to cure most of Latin America’s ills. Problem is: it’s a long term bet, with no known solutions and too many people working on the edges.
The first step to fixing Brazil’s crisis will have to involve recognizing that the rot goes much deeper than it might seem. Brazil’s troubles began with the downturn in the global commodity markets, but the roots of the malaise trace much farther.
La revelación de que La Moneda ha contratado la realización de un documental sobre el cuatrienio demuestra que el gobierno no entiende cuáles son las prioridades de la gente ni se da cuenta de la necesidad de focalizar el gasto público ahora que el boom del precio del cobre llegó a su fin.
Venezuela will have to default. The only question is when.
Para un gobierno que ha convertido la participación ciudadana en un fetiche y la transparencia en su bandera de lucha favorita, la forma en que se llevó a cabo la negociación para la reforma tributaria debiera constituir una razón para sentirse avergonzado.
Peru and its presidential politics provide the primary themes this week on Latin Pulse. The program discusses the upcoming election in Peru that currently has a crowded field of 19 candidates, including two former presidents.
The past two decades of progress in LGBTQ rights in many Latin American countries have helped to extend basic rights of marriage, health care and a security to many in the LGBTQ community—but not all.
After World War II, a focus on social welfare for all people influenced the drafting of multiple declarations protecting human rights, both globally and regionally. Both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, in the Americas, enshrined civil and political rights as well as economic, cultural and social rights into international law.
U.S. security policy is not providing security for most of Latin America’s citizens. U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere should be based on the common interests, which today include peace, security, economic prosperity, diplomatic cooperation, and the right of each country to choose its own inclusive political system–along with all the attendant human and political rights.
Thirty years after the Jean-Claude Duvalier fled Haiti, the Caribbean island country has been plagued by political upheaval, autocracy, and corruption. Now, though, after yet another electoral debacle, the international community has a rare opportunity to support the Haitian people, rather than an imperfect, temporary way out of a crisis.
