Chile’s Di Lampedusa Strategy: After Years of Debate, Has Anything Changed?
This is the dirty little secret of recent Chilean history: the agreement to change everything will end up changing nothing.
Robert Funk
December 15, 2023
Chile Shifts Rightward on the Eve of Another Constitutional Vote
With so many Chileans willing to limit rights to solve the country’s security problems, the main question for the future seems to be who will reap the benefits of the country’s malaise, Chile’s traditional right or a hard-right autocrat.
Cynthia Arnson
December 14, 2023
How Long Will Chile’s Dissatisfied Democrats Remain Democrats?
The faltering constitutional process indeed captures Chileans’ portrayal as ‘dissatisfied democrats’: they believe in democracy but dislike its results.
Jennifer Piscopo
December 13, 2023
The Essequibo Dispute: Colonial Roots and Modern Implications
The territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo region is a conflict that stretches back centuries, with its roots in the colonial era but with implications that extend to the present day.
Paula Gomes
December 1, 2023
Would Venezuela Really Invade Essequibo?
The world should not dismiss aggression as impossible. Deterrence against a low-probability threat is cheaper than responding once aggression has begun.
Evan Ellis
November 30, 2023
Three Ways Lasso’s Referendum Can Strengthen U.S.-Ecuador Relations
Passing the referendum would generate positive effects on multiple levels—for the Ecuadorean people, for democracy’s position and presence in the region, and, finally, for the U.S. and its regional influence.
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September 27, 2022
A Venezuelan Tragedy
As the year comes to an end, the demise of social order in Venezuela is the chronicle of a foretold death. Though 2016 began with high expectations of a peaceful change in government, neither the Maduro administration nor the opposition have shown the courage and leadership needed to find common ground and to pull the country out of the deep hole it finds itself in. Unfortunately for Venezuelans, who are deeply suffering from the economic, social and political chaos, they have little to look forward to in 2017.
Patricio Navia
January 5, 2017
Behind the “No:” a lesson in political participation from Colombia’s plebiscite
The October 2nd plebiscite and its stunningly low voter turnout demonstrated the inherent weaknesses of popular referenda and the need to think creatively about how to restore people’s participation in the electoral process.
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October 12, 2016
The divided vote over the peace process
Last Sunday Colombians shocked the world by voting against the peace agreement that President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC leaders have been negotiating for four years.
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October 7, 2016
The Brexit lessons for the Americas
The Three Amigos hit all the right notes in the summit in Ottawa, Canada this week—a fitting second act to the “bromantic” state visit of Prime Minister Trudeau to Washington in March. But Brexit and Trump cast a long shadow over Obama’s last NAFTA summit.
John Parisella
June 30, 2016