Global responses to Rex Tillerson’s trip to Latin America
Secretary Tillerson’s Latin America trip triggered a wave of criticisms and repudiations from regional leaders and global powers alike.
Greg Weeks
February 21, 2018
The Trump Doctrine in Latin America
In Latin America Vice President Pence finds himself in a role now familiar to many White House officials: telling leaders abroad that they should ignore his boss’ bluster. Truth is there’s often little change from the past.
Greg Weeks
August 16, 2017
Latin America will not unite
Pan-hemispheric solidarity and unity has long been a dream of independence fighters, politicians, academics and dreamers. Given the state of the Americas today, you can forget about it.
Greg Weeks
March 14, 2017
Pink tides, pendulums, and presidents: political and economic change in Latin America
Conventional wisdom is that the pendulum has swung away from the left and back to the right. Such a view, though, misses the complex positions politicians, governments and voters are taking across the political spectrum.
Greg Weeks
January 19, 2017
The still-slumbering giant in a Southern swing state: Hispanic voters
Will this be the year that Hispanic voters mobilize and vote Democrat in the all-important swing state of North Carolina?
Greg Weeks
November 2, 2016
Winning the paranoid way in Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has one of the highest approval rates in the region, but he is still going to great lengths to secure his re-election November 6th at all cost. Is this just Ortega playing it safe or a permanent power grab?
Greg Weeks
October 6, 2016
An Attitude of Platitudes: The Democratic Party’s Platform and Latin America
Beyond a few nice sounding phrases and curious omissions, the Democratic Party platform mentions Trump more than it mentions Latin America.
Greg Weeks
July 25, 2016
Latin America in the Republican platform: Cold War ideology meets the art of the deal
The newly released Republican platform twists itself in pretzels attempting to accommodate Trump’s positions, its own historical positions and its need to oppose the current administration’s position wherever possible.
Greg Weeks
July 20, 2016
The OAS and the Venezuelan crisis: even debate is welcome
Secretary General Luis Almagro has invoked the Democratic Charter of the OAS, calling for a meeting of the body’s Permanent Council to discuss the situation in Venezuela. How the hemispheric body responds will be a test of its role and future in a divided hemisphere.
Greg Weeks
May 31, 2016
U.S. Leverage in Latin America
One of the legacies President Barack Obama will leave to his successor is increased foreign policy leverage in Latin America. Nowhere is this more evident than in U.S. policy toward Cuba and Venezuela—and because of those two countries with the rest of the hemisphere.
Greg Weeks
January 29, 2016