In collaboration with FIU’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Global Americans produced a white paper for U.S. Southern Command examining different scenarios in bilateral relations given shifting politics and the crisis in Venezuela. Here’s what we found.
With contradictory responses to democratic threats, Luis Almagro and the Organization of American States risk losing authority and legitimacy as they face a wave of democratic erosion in the Americas.
Another Latin American president is trying to change his country’s term limits. We’ve seen this across the hemisphere for decades now. It rarely ends well.
Con la cantidad de desinformación publicada a la alza resulta urgente entender las distintas tácticas usadas por diferentes medios estatales para poder encontrar mejores soluciones al combate de noticias falsas.
In June 2018, Global Americans launched our news monitoring initiative to flag false or misleading articles by extra-hemispheric state-owned media reporting in the Americas. This is what we learned.
Political developments in Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil and once again in Peru should remind us that tackling corruption—to quote Ringo Starr—”… just don’t come easy.” Worse, it can often turn anti-democratic.
On May 21st, five candidates presented their credentials for membership of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the 2021-2024 term. Four posts need to be filled.
Countering democratic backsliding driven by powerful executives is as relevant as eliminating corruption, the deficit of the rule of law and the scourges of inequality and violence that plague Latin America’s democracies. Yet the latter issues still dominate public debate.
Since the disarming of the FARC two-and-a-half years ago, the actors, figures and methods have changed. But the conclusion is clear: drug trafficking in Colombia is more alive than ever before.
Since the mid-nineties, a majority of established democracies have fallen victim to an autocratic wave. And while each country’s trajectory to autocracy is different, the tactical model of the aspiring dictator is evident in all of them.
