Latin America

Across Latin America, transnational criminal organizations, transnational gangs, and extra-regional actors supporting authoritarian regimes are exploiting growing cracks in the region’s weak financial regulations by transferring parts of their financial…

Since the end of 2021, the Nicaraguan government has made a series of sweeping attacks on universities—some of the last pockets of vocal government opposition in Nicaragua. Critics have argued…

Central America has often been described as a mosaic—a mixture of different cultures and viewpoints in a small area of just 201,497 square meters. It has experienced internal wars, financial…

Reforming the country’s justice sector was one of the agreements of Guatemala’s 1996 Peace Accords, which ended one of the region’s longest-running internal conflicts. However, the country continues to be…

While violence impacts the lives of both men and women in Mexico, women are the ones who suffer from Mexico’s dominant male chauvinist ideology, legitimized and exacerbated by President López…

Despite President Jair Bolsonaro’s constant attacks on judicial and political institutions since coming to office in 2019, the Brazilian Supreme Court has been relatively successful in containing these threats. The…

Latin America has seen an explosion in corruption during the pandemic, as presidential power expanded and governments sidestepped standard procedures to speed public spending on health and economic…

On Monday, November 15, 2021 (N15), a Facebook group of more than 31,000 young Cuban artists and other critics of the Cuban government named Archipiélago (“Archipelago”) called for a “Civic…

Exclusive focus on Chinese motivations for engaging Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) discounts the agency and influence regional leaders exhibit, particularly in crisis situations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, LAC…

During the past five years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) migrants and asylum seekers coming to the southern US border have faced an unprecedented onslaught of restrictive immigration reforms,…