An Era of Containment: Latin America’s Top 10 LGBTQ Stories of 2023
The era of net gains for the LGBTQ community seems to have been replaced by an era of containment.
Javier Corrales
January 5, 2024
For Mexico’s Economy To Grow, Security Issues Need To Be Addressed
Until Mexico reduces the risk of cargo truck hijacking, the country is likely to miss out on billions of dollars of potential new foreign investment.
Mark Vickers
January 4, 2024
A Call to Action: Strengthening Judicial Cybersecurity Across the Americas to Protect the Rule of Law
Judiciaries across the Americas must start placing cybersecurity among their top administrative priorities, or else risk catastrophe.
Jeffrey Zinsmeister
November 17, 2023
Tourism Boom, Water Bust: The Hidden Crisis Beneath the Maya Train
Experts predict the Yucatan is 15 years away from experiencing a water crisis. These predictions do not account for the Maya Train.
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October 13, 2023
There Are No Mistakes in AMLO’s New Textbooks
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has opened yet another battlefront in Mexico’s belligerent political context. In violation of the constitution, the national education law, and the most basic sense of decency and morality, but with the usual levels of opacity and cynicism, AMLO’s government has drafted and published new textbooks for public schools nationwide through the Ministry of Education.
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September 8, 2023
To Understand Mexico’s Tragedy, be Wary of the Strongman Theory
The causes and explanations of how Mexico has regressed to a far more dysfunctional country lie in the somewhat hidden, not-so-thrilling everyday representations of weakness and impotence—the day-to-day stories of stranded and neglected citizens trying to survive government corruption and incompetence. The challenge of being treated as citizens, not thanks to but despite the government, reveals Mexico’s dysfunction
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June 21, 2023
Even When Thinking Regionally, The Inertia of Migration Deterrence Remains Unstoppable
Despite a proliferation of targeted visa restrictions, the reality is that migration has continued. As the option of flights and other regular travel further north has been taken off the board, this has only pushed migrants to take more dangerous paths to the U.S. border, most infamously through the Darien Gap.
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June 6, 2023
Pink Tide 2.0? The Same Trap Awaits
The label “pink tide” was already misleading 20 years ago. Today, with even more pronounced distinctions between the left-wing presidents and diverse foreign policy orientations—including some critical views of Cuba—such a generalization has become even more outdated and is by far too inaccurate to categorize a political trend.
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September 22, 2022
The Evolution of PRC Engagement in Mexico
AMLO’s increasing need for the PRC and its resources is already manifesting itself in subtle compromises that his administration has made towards Chinese companies with respect to lithium, and possibly electricity generation, among other areas.
Evan Ellis
August 24, 2022
Mexico’s Surge in Violence
Last week, widespread arsons, hijackings, and shootings prompted the government to deploy federal and national guard troops across Mexico. Mexico’s Security Cabinet reported 260 people died during the four days that armed gangs shot civilians, conducted “narco blockades,” and set fire to shops, buses, and cars.
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August 19, 2022