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.
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.
Honest judges confronting systemic corruption
In many countries corruption undermines, or even co-opts, justice institutions. In Guatemala, judges are prone to becoming victims themselves.
Cuando la tiranía se vuelve degenerativa, desobedecer puede ser terapéutico
La discrepancia entre lo legalmente estatuido y lo moralmente aceptable en Venezuela esta en un estado de flujo. ¿Tendrá un impacto la desobediencia civil en Venezuela?
A counterweight to populism in Latin America: judicial legitimacy and popularity
Populism, a resilient phenomenon in Latin America, has enabled and relied on the inclusion of politically alienated masses to legitimize the weakening of institutions. How is court empowerment and independence possible in the face of such a powerful anti-institutional force? This research argues that the answer may be found in the same mechanisms that enable populism: popularity and legitimacy.
The interoceanic canal, and U.S. constructive engagement toward Nicaragua
After his prompt, unexpected and unceremonial removal from Nicaragua, while there to conduct research on the transoceanic canal, Evan Ellis reflects on the events and what they mean for Nicaraguan democracy and U.S.-Nicaraguan relations.
The healthy roots of corruption anger in Latin America
With corruption scandals, popular protests and the revelations in the Panama Papers, it’s easy to think that corruption in Latin America has suddenly increased. It hasn’t, but Latin American institutions are better prepared to deal with the fallout.
Equal treatment and discrimination across the region
This week’s stats shot measures equal protection of laws and lack of discrimination across the region. Equal treatment does not improve with increasing development.
Peru’s 40-Year Debt: the World is Watching
In resolving a 40-year debt, Peruvians and, in particular, Peru’s international business class need to understand what is at stake here: not just the integrity and effectiveness of the judicial system but international opinion on how the government and the judicial system treats property and legal obligations.
Leopoldo Lopez and the injustice of Venezuela’s judicial system
Even if you don’t agree with the Venezuelan opposition’s call for “la salida” of President Maduro, leaders like Leopoldo Lopez, now in prison almost 15 months, still have the right to demand the resignation of a president–a right Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff rightly supported in her country. Here’s his parents’ story.