Tag: Latin America
76 Articles
- Business & Economics
Is the Future of Central America’s Growth Sustainable?
Introduction Because of the Central American Common Market and the region’s access to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, Central America has a strategic trade and investment…
December 18, 2020
- Society & Culture
High Expectations: Chile’s Path Toward a New Constitution
Nothing is Perfect—Appearances Can Be Deceiving It often happens that a country’s reality, when viewed from abroad, looks very different from the way its own citizens…
November 26, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
“Not One Women Less, Not One More Death:” Feminist Activism and Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
In 2011, Mexican poet and human rights activist Susana Chávez Castillo was tortured and killed in Ciudad Juárez. Eighteen years earlier, she coined the phrase “ni una mujer…
August 12, 2020
- Society & Culture
Climate Change in Central America: The Drug War Connection
Ecological destruction by narcotics traffickers is hardly unusual; similar dynamics are reported across Latin America. It is particularly widespread in Central America, however.…
May 13, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
Where are the Women? Why Expanding our Understanding of Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis Matters
Considering that humanitarian and displacement crises affect women disproportionately and exacerbate existing gender inequalities, it is crucial for researchers and policymakers…
May 11, 2020
- Global Governance
Tropical Forests and Climate Change Mitigation: The Decisive Role of Environmental Governance
In terms of deforestation control, Brazil’s trajectory in the last two decades is a good example. Five countries around the world (Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
March 20, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Towards a New Endgame in Venezuela
Latin America entered this decade with high hopes: strong economic growth promised to propel much of the region ahead into prosperity. Many Latin American countries made…
December 18, 2019
- Society & Culture
To Impeach or Not to Impeach: Lessons from Latin America
Since 1978, congresses from six of the nineteen Latin American countries have removed ten presidents through impeachments or declarations of incapacity (or the leaders have…
December 13, 2019
- Global Governance
A Transition from Above or From Below in Venezuela?
Existing scholarly research suggests that a lack of prominent pro-government political moderates makes a transition from above unlikely. Instead, re-democratization depends on…
August 30, 2019
- Human Rights & Development
How External Actors Have Worsened Venezuela’s Long Crisis
In January 2019, the United States, France, and Britain recognized the head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, as President of Venezuela. Russia and China continue…
June 24, 2019