Though this year’s summit is likely to be dominated by regional crises, the U.S. and its like-minded partners should still work together to advance a rules-based democratic agenda.
Rumors have circulated that President Trump may not attend the 8th Summit of the Americas when it meets in Lima this April. If true, it will be more evidence of a careless (or willful) ceding of goodwill and leadership in our neighborhood.
Though not without precedent, the decision to send troops to the border comes as attempted crossings reach an historic low. The decision is pure politics, if not ugly, populist racism.
On Easter Sunday, Costa Rican voters surprised election watchers from around the region, electing the pre-vote underdog, Carlos Alvarado, in a landslide over the divisive Fabricio Alvarado (no relation).
La Cumbre de las Américas se aproxima, pero más allá del caos y escándalos de corrupción un tema permanece latente: la desinvitación a Venezuela y la sostenida bienvenida a Cuba.
As with other natural resources, the source of Latin America’s soy profits—the technological advances contained in the seeds—remains out of reach.
Though Efraín Ríos Montt never went to prison, another form of reckoning—through historical memory and a full accounting—is still possible.
Sí se debe buscar un momento que defina el derrumbamiento de la democracia en Venezuela, entre muchos sucesos que sin duda han sido graves, he optado por seleccionar el ocurrido exactamente hace un año.
Kuczysnki is the latest casualty of a growing anti-corruption wave sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean, and he’s unlikely to be the last. While the backlash might finally herald the end of the era of political impunity in the region, it could also have uncertain and harmful consequences for democratic stability and due process.
Si la percepción generalizada es que el gobierno tolera—o incluso favorece—el lucro en la educación superior, La Moneda habrá perdido la batalla comunicacional en el debate sobre cómo avanzar para mejorar la calidad de la educación superior y cómo garantizar la gratuidad al mayor número posible de personas.
