The United States has chosen an outsider populist president. Latin America has ample experience with such leaders. Here are four warning signs U.S. citizens, civil society and policy makers need to be on the look out for.
Latin America is experiencing its worst economic growth — projected to be negative this year – since the lost decade of the 1980s. At this crucial time, the United States is turning its back and stepping backward from Latin America while China takes further steps forward in its economic relations with the region.
Una vez oficializado el sorpresivo triunfo de Trump, no veo señal alguna de que habrá un cambio en relación con Venezuela. La deriva autoritaria del régimen de Nicolás Maduro no será motivo de preocupación en el nuevo gobierno norteamericano que comienza en dos meses, en enero de 2017. Es importante tenerlo en claro.
If President Donald J. Trump delivers on his most important campaign promises, the United States will fall into an economic recession.
Beyond bilateral economic and trade concerns there is a larger preoccupation in Canada: is this the end of Pax Americana?
If rhetoric and precedent are any indication, President-elect Donald Trump is about to do great damage, not just to U.S. national interests in the hemisphere, but globally.
Given his inflammatory remarks about Latin American citizens and its immigrants, Global Americans did some digging on who’s advising Donald Trump on his Latin America policy. It’s no one you’ve ever heard of.
The belief that Trumpism, Brexit and other expressions of populism at odds with liberal democracy are a passing phenomenon are misguided. They are here to stay; the question is what to do to defend democracy as we know it.
Trump’s ability to shatter the postwar bipartisan consensus, his personalistic style and his resentment of a free press have made Argentines wonder: has the GOP produced a Peronist?
Will this be the year that Hispanic voters mobilize and vote Democrat in the all-important swing state of North Carolina?
