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CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
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Global Americans’ in-depth research and analysis of the long-term trends and current events impacting Central America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela.
Four Ways the U.S. Can Help Advance Haiti’s Progress
September 13, 2024
The U.S. can help build on Haiti's transitional milestones and pave a sustainable path out of Haiti’s long-running crises.
Brazil and the Southern Cone
Explainer: Milei’s Economic Program and Argentina’s Turnaround
Brazil and the Southern Cone
Explainer: The Latin American Left Reacts to Venezuela’s Electoral Crisis
Democracy & Elections
Explaining and Predicting: How A Harris Presidency Would View Latin America
Democracy & Elections
Explaining and Predicting: The GOP Immigration Platform and Its Impact on the Americas
Editor's Picks
Venezuela’s Election and a New Wave of Migration?
Scott B. MacDonald
August 28, 2024
Short of a political solution and an economic overhaul, largescale Venezuelan migration probably will continue to loom large over the Americas for years to come.
Explainer: The Latin American Left Reacts to Venezuela’s Electoral Crisis
Scott Brasesco, Juan Diego Solis de Ovando Bitar
August 23, 2024
The democratic left’s approach is shaped by a generational shift within the broader leftist movements, whose young progressives center democracy, social justice, and human rights ...
Venezuela’s Hope: The Democratic Opposition’s Courageous Stand
Carl Meacham, Scott Brasesco
July 26, 2024
By all measures, it is the regime’s most harrowing election in the past 25 years—if Maduro respects the results, it will almost certainly mean relinquishing ...
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Why the Barbados Agreement Failed: Maduro Needs an Off-Ramp
Scott Brasesco
June 10, 2024
Though the agreement nominally gave the regime a fair chance at winning the election by lifting sanctions and boosting the economy, a fair chance was ...
Why ‘Plan Bukele’ Does (and Doesn’t) Work
Henry Ziemer
June 6, 2024
Plan Bukele does not represent a coherent set of policies and tactics, but rather a unique fusion of coincidence, brutality, and hard-nosed calculation.
Austerity Measures Sink Cuba Further into Near Collapse
R.O. Niederstrasser
April 29, 2024
Overall, the move toward more liberal measures appears to be too little too late, despite pressures from Vietnamese and Chinese Communist Party representatives in recent ...
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