Colombia Is (Finally) Getting on the Trains Train
Colombia must leverage both international markets and geopolitics to complete its ambitious railway plan.
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December 15, 2021
Challenges Facing Chile’s Next Government: Part 1
The Chilean election poses a positive, if selective, narrative about Chile’s past and its remarkable transformation, against a new generation’s discontent with some parts of that transformation and the problems it has generated or failed to resolve.
Evan Ellis
December 14, 2021
Vaccination and Vaccine Diplomacy in the Caribbean
Few have specifically studied vaccination in the Caribbean. This study aims to help fill this gap, understanding vaccine diplomacy and great powers’ combination of humanitarian and geopolitical motives.
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December 9, 2021
Honduras Elects First Woman President in Break with Political Culture
Xiomara Castro de Zelaya is slated to be Honduras’ next president. While the election results represent a significant step forward for democratic governance, the political culture of democracy in Honduras remains fragile.
Orlando J. Pérez
December 2, 2021
Argentina’s Uncertain Future: Fernández, the IMF, and the Opposition after the Midterms
Argentina’s midterm elections dealt a historic blow to President Alberto Fernández and his Frente de Todos coalition. What does the opposition’s new Senate majority mean for governance in Argentina?
Patricio Provitina
December 2, 2021
Chinese Engagement in Guyana: An Update
In Guyana, as in other parts of Latin America, the United States should not attempt to block the government or others from doing business with the PRC and its companies, but rather, to continue to insist on transparency, the rule of law, and competent government institutions.
Evan Ellis
November 30, 2021
Colombia election: Too early to call
Don’t pay attention to the voter intention polls at this moment. Although left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro is currently leading the polls there’s significant space for movement in the political realm between now and the elections.
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November 22, 2021
Protests and repression in Cuba
Cuban activists had planned a national “Civic March for Change” for Monday, November 15, but the government moved in advance to quell the protest.
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November 19, 2021
Paraguay’s uneasy exterior
Often out of the spotlight of Latin America observers, Paraguay continues to make quiet but sustained economic progress. However, Paraguay’s path toward prosperity is increasingly complicated by external constraints on growth.
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November 17, 2021
Ortega seizes another term following rigged elections in Nicaragua
On Sunday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, won reelection following a year of political prosecutions, bans on opposition parties, and laws to curtail the independent press.
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November 12, 2021