Tag: Latin America
76 Articles
- Society & Culture
“Fuera LUMA”: Puerto Rico Confronts Neoliberal Electricity System Takeover amid Ongoing Struggles for Self-Determination
Puerto Rican energy studies scholars have argued for years that technological changes cannot be effective without addressing and transforming underlying power inequities. Current…
June 21, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Understanding Haiti Through the Power of the Social Forces in Interaction
When studying the Haitian state and its institutions, scholars and policymakers often unwittingly employ standard neo-colonial tropes developed through the lens of racialized…
June 15, 2021
- Society & Culture
Mapuche Movements in Chile: From Resistance to Political Recognition
Introduction Since the creation of nation-states, indigenous peoples have been forced to assume roles assigned to them by Western society. However, in the last decades,…
May 21, 2021
- Global Governance
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: the Politics of Illicit Markets, States, and the Pandemic
COVID-19 is challenging state capacity in Latin America as political leaders scramble to stem the rate of infection and vaccinate their populations in a region that is among the…
May 19, 2021
- Society & Culture
To End Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis, Start with Family Planning
Over the last several years, Venezuela has dealt with a devastating humanitarian crisis that has forced millions into poverty. This situation, initiated under Hugo Chávez’…
May 10, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
Chile’s Constitutional Turning Point
Chile is at its most important inflection point since its 1990 return to democracy in the wake of the Pinochet dictatorship. In October 2019, the country exploded in violent…
April 1, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
India and Latin America: Moving from Transactional to Permanent Healthcare Partners
On January 22, less than a week after India began its own COVID-19 vaccination drive at home, the Serum Institute of India shipped two million doses of the Covidshield vaccine…
March 18, 2021
- Conflict & Security
In 2020, Peru Became a Tinderbox
For the first nineteen years of the twenty-first century, Peru was a Latin American success story. Economic growth was rapid; poverty and inequality declined; democracy was…
February 19, 2021
- Society & Culture
From the Bottom Up: A Different Context for the Colombian Drug Trade
On July 20, 2018, more than three decades since my first election in 1986, I returned to the Colombian senate under very different circumstances. The most important difference…
January 20, 2021
- Business & Economics
Argentina’s New Media Regulations Create Jitters over Information Control
Stop the Presses A price freeze for telephone, cable, and Internet services in Argentina has raised concerns that the new government is increasing control over communications…
January 19, 2021