During his election campaign in 2022, the current president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, proposed a project called “Total Peace,” to achieve the pacification of Colombian territories and to negotiate…
In international relations, cities occupy a rich focal point of migration, economic activities, and other distinctive urbanized social formations. The work of Professor AbdouMaliq Simone asks us to reevaluate…
Peruโs recent protests have been the most intense in the country in at least a century, leaving a tragic toll of at least sixty human lives. The causes of the…
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was established to give a unitary voice to the continent but has instead become a mirror of its divisions. Once…
Across Latin America, transnational criminal organizations, transnational gangs, and extra-regional actors supporting authoritarian regimes are exploiting growing cracks in the regionโs 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 universitiesโsome of the last pockets of vocal government opposition in Nicaragua. Critics have argued…
Central America has often been described as a mosaicโa mixture of different cultures and viewpoints in a small area of just 201,497 square meters. It has experienced internal wars, financial…
Reforming the countryโs justice sector was one of the agreements of Guatemalaโs 1996 Peace Accords, which ended one of the regionโs 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 Mexicoโs dominant male chauvinist ideology, legitimized and exacerbated by President Lรณpez…
Despite President Jair Bolsonaroโs 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…
