With the need to confront the short-term COVID-19 pandemic and long-term climate crisis, sustainable recovery strategies can help governments tackle both.
The Northern Triangle is one of the most violent subregions in the world. While the region’s leaders rose to power after promising to bring peace and security, their tactics have collided with reality.
Global Americans hosts a panel on LGBT+ rights in the Americas to discuss legal advancements, how the community is affected by COVID-19 and what more needs to be done.
Latin America has the unique opportunity to use the COVID-19 pandemic to reshape its cities into more equitable communities. How they do this will be imperative for the future of the region.
With primary elections around the corner and general elections in November 2021, Honduras’ opposition remains bitterly divided. Unless the main blocs react quickly, the incumbent National Party is set to win another 4-year term.
Increased dependence on China by both Latin America and the European Union not only generates vulnerabilities for both regions, but also creates strategic risks for the United States.
Guatemala’s magistrate selection mechanism has led to the politicization of its courts. The system is in desperate need of an update, or risk losing the little credibility it has left at the hands of corruption networks.
Throughout its history, El Salvador has had to fight authoritarian regimes more than once. President Nayib Bukele promised to be different, but his actions are proving to be just as big a threat to the country’s democracy.
Latin America’s overcrowded prisons are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19’s high propagation rate. A possible solution is ending preventative detention.
The COVID-19 pandemic provides needed context for the growing environmental movement—mainly that the climate crisis could have outcomes conceivably more dire than the current pandemic.
