Illegal gold mining is more profitable than drug trafficking. The business is wreaking social and environmental damage in Latin America with no clear response in sight
Peru’s progress today toward equitable social and democratic development and effective democratic governance is hindered not by powerful interest groups, domestic or foreign, but by the weakness of state capacity and institutions.
Crushed by insecurity and impunity, journalists in Latin America are left in a tight spot. It is no surprise then, that the region has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for investigative journalists.
An overview to identify the candidates with most possibilities of running and the most feasible alliances vis-a-vis the electoral event in Colombia.
Freedom House reports once again on the state of global freedom. Sadly, the countries that suffered democratic setbacks outnumbered those that registered gains, marking 2017 as the 12th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. In Latin America the picture is not so bright either.
In an event hosted by the Canadian Council for the Americas, business leaders and expert scholars from the region offer an answer to the question: Will Latin America be able to maintain sustained economic growth as it enters an intense electoral cycle?
As conditions fail to improve in Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans have decided to flee the island. According to the Florida Division of Emergency Management, more than 269,000 people have arrived in Florida from Puerto Rico since the hurricane.
La inestabilidad en la península coreana, el incompensable accionar de Donald Trump en algunos frentes de la agenda internacional, la crisis global de refugiados aún irresuelta, y la próxima ola de elecciones, entre otros temas, hacen que sea casi imposible predecir qué deparará el año que comienza para América Latina.
As we say goodbye to the dizzying and tumultuous year the region has had, we don’t have a lot of time to recover. With major presidential and legislative elections this year—including the U.S.’s midterm elections in November—2018 promises to be just as, if not more, memorable than 2017.
Far from celebrating the wave of anti-corruption sentiment and investigations, we should fear for the future. The backlash could make the region a petri-dish for populism.
