Peru’s 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 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…
